How to Remove Background with Complicated HAIR in Gimp | #6

hi guys this is fnd in this video I'm going to show you how to remove background of the image with complicated hat so let's get started in last video I showed you how to remove and make transparent background using layer masks so go and check out that video before getting into this tutorial so this is the image I'm going to remove background but this subject has complicated hat which are interacting with backgrounds so this kind of images are too difficult to remove backgrounds so to remove background for for this kind of images you just need to follow this tutorial first you need to duplicate this image I am going to name this as temporary remove the color from the player by going to colors desaturate select the option which makes hair looks darker again go to colors and curves make the her looks darker and background lighter and click okay invert this image by going to colors and invert now the heart becomes white in color add landmarks to the source image in layer masks Whiteley's capacity and black case transparency now again good temporary layer and make the opacity to zero now draw the path of the subject including its higher which is not too too complicated and which are not interacting to the background like I am doing so make sure you don't even select the small region of background now convert the path into selection after doing this create the new layer and which one is transparent and go to this bucket fill tool and make the foreground color white and fill the selection with white now go to this temporary layer and make the opacity 200% and and go to this layer and merge down with temporary layer now the full subject and it's her is in white color in layer mask I already said white is for opacity and black is for transparency now copy this temporary layer and paste it in the layer mask and for now hide this temporary layer you see the image background got deleted that's guys thanks for watching thumbs up this video that will encourage us a lot subscribe this channel for more game tutorials bye you

Channel: f&D

Views: 109,278

Keywords: Gimp, Gimp 2.8, Gimp 2.8.16, Erase Background, Remove Background, Transparent Background, Subject with Complicated Hair, Messy Hair, Flowing jair, Photoshop, Photo editing

Id: dmse2bm0YHI

Length: 5min 9sec (309 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 14 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/ssssam]

There is also the foreground select tool, which is often a simpler method. https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-foreground-select.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG5NYDp-kj8

[u/Crypt0Nihilist]

He didn't mention what to do about the part the technique didn't really work for - that bit on the horizon to the right which was sufficiently similar to make it through his filtering. Often you're back to manually attacking it with the dodge tool. I've not worked it out yet, but it should be possible to a different filtering method on that difficult area and combine just that part with the main mask.

It's worth noting that people very often use a colour channel as the basis for the mask, rather than choosing a desaturation option. This will often give you a better starting point. It's worth looking under the colour menu for other decompositions which might give you more contrast between the hair and background.

[u/otter111a]

When I follow tutorials I like to have copies of the original files to allow me to follow along while doing the steps and comparing my results to the intended results.

[u/[deleted]]

Really good stuff, love to see a longer version with more explanations!