Remove the background from hair in GIMP - tutorial (Cut out hair)

hey guys in this tutorial I'm going to show you how to remove the background from hair like this image here this beautiful cool I don't know who she is using me I just got this picture of a free website so um let's just start and the first thing you always need to do when you start to remove the background is make sure that your image has an alpha channel because that means that there will be transparency in the image possible and you do that by right clicking on the layer and then click on add alpha Channel and now we are going to duplicate this layer by clicking on this button here and we're going to make a layer mask in this F from this image and what I want to do is make sure that the contours between the background and the hair is a big some clinical two colors curves and then make sure that contrast is bigger like doing this as you can see the contours between her hair and the background gets bigger and bigger and I want to let see that's too much want to background to be almost white well it looks nice and try when you do this to make the complex contrast as big as possible between the background and hair we're going to click OK with my curves here and now I'm going to make the image black and white because a layer mask is always black and white or great tones so I'm going to go to colors desaturate and in this image luminosity gives me the best contrast so I'm going to go with that and then click OK and now because the layer mask will show everything that is white in the layer mask will shine through and everything that is black in a layer mask will be masked so we want the hair and the face to shine too and so we want to want that to be white so go to colours invert and now her hair is white and all we need to do is make sure that everything else we want to drew is white as well so I'm going to go to my paper stool and make my foreground color white and use a big brush and then just paint her face white like this and what I also need to do is paint all bits that are still gray here white as well and I'm going to do that while I'll pause it and there we go I've got my mouse credit almost ready for scientists notice that in the corners it's still bit white something kind of paint the corners black and it's nice if that works like that so now I've got my mask ready but it's not a layer mask yet it's just a separate layer so in order to make this a layer mask first we'll create a layer mask on this layer here by right-clicking on it and click add a layer mask and then take white full opacity and click add and now we're going to copy and paste this one or cut and paste this layer into this Lerma so click on this layer go to edit cut or ctrl C and then click on your layer mask make sure your click on your layer mask and then go to edit paste or ctrl V and now it creates a floating selection in your layer dialog and what you need to do to paste it into your layer mask is click on this anchor the floating layer icon there if Galant now it's your layer mask and this looks almost perfect here with this background I would leave it like this and with a background with a similar color I would just leave it like this but if you've got a very contrasting background like for instance a black background or create a new layer just to show you what a black background would look like going to fill this with black and then zoom in a bit on the edge of her hair here you can see that there is still a little bit of the bluish background left so in order to fix this let's zoom out you can clone in hair on these edges so I'm going to go to my clone tool and now I'm going to clone some hair from here to the edges here and make sure before you do this that you click on this image layer so this one click on that then within with my clone tool I'm going to clone a bit by ctrl-clicking bit of this hair here and then paint over it here and that's a bit too dark so I'm gonna try something else here that looks better and when you're cloning you need to take your time to make it look perfect so this might not look perfect because I'm doing this very fast just to show you how to do this and I'm going to crown something here I'm not going to do the whole image because that will take up too much time but I'm going to pause it and do a little bit so I've cloned the left side and also a bit of the right side while I was posing it but I did it quickly but just to show you what the difference it makes because if i zoom in now on this same spot you can see that there no longer is the background color there are no longer those traces of of gray and louie's background it's all hair now so that's how you make the perfect as you can see I didn't do this very well and it's still a bit greys so there needs to be a little bit of cloning here as well but take your time for cloning because as in everything with game the more time you take and the more precision you do with it the better the outcome is you so this is how you make a cut out of hair using a layer mouse that you created yourself from a different layer and I hope this tutorial helped and if it it and maybe like to watch my other videos and subscribe thank you for watching

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Id: AnbxtMCHKV0

Length: 6min 43sec (403 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 25 2010