[Gimp-user] Combining Images

[rich404 <forums gimpusers com>]

> Alright, thank you.
>
> Now, will that work for cutting out anime characters for Sigs? Or is
> there a different process?

You can use that method to remove a background only if the background is a solid
colour. Any complicated background requires other methods.

More usually it is called foreground extraction and there are reams written
about this. It is a subject on its own.

No real definitive way, it all depends on the image. You can go round the
outline with free-select tool or the scissors tool or using the path tool (and a
selection from the path is a good way). I use a filter from a 3rd party plugin
called gmic.

Since you are using Gimp 2.10 you could try the foreground select tool. There
are videos and descriptions of how it works, this is a good start.

http://gimplearn.net/viewtopic.php/GIMP-Tutorials/Foreground-Select-tool--Extracted-from-a-video?f=10&t=1383

Briefly, You make a selection, paint in the foreground, touch up bits of the
background that are missing. All using the tool options. Get a strange looking
object like screenshot 1.

Apply that, gives a selection of the foreground. Copy the selection, Paste it as
a new image. screenshot 2

Note. The chequer board pattern is Gimps way to depict transparency. Save as a
Gimp .xcf or export as a .png which keeps that transparency.

Attachments:
* http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/938/original/01-foreground.jpg
* http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/939/original/02-anime.jpg

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