In this video tutorial, I will show you how to remove background from an image using GIMP 2.10 Foreground Select Tool.
There are many different ways to remove a background from an image using GIMP, the foreground select tool is one method I use often when the image is not too complex.
The first goal is the select the content you want to keep, once completed we next need to help GIMP understand what content to keep from our rough selection. We can do this by painting carefully over the content which needs to be kept.
For more accurate background removal I suggest using a layer mask:
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Gimp 2.10 Install Guide:
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How to remove background from an image using GIMP 2.10:
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Foreground Select tool - This tool lets you extract the foreground from the active layer or from a selection. It is based on the SIOX method (Simple Interactive Object Extraction).
The creation of a selection with this tool works in a couple of steps:
1. Roughly select the foreground you want to extract. When you select this tool, the mouse pointer goes with the lasso icon. It actually works like the Fuzzy Select tool. Select as little as possible from the background.
As soon as you release the mouse button, the non selected part of the image is covered with a dark blue mask. If the selection is not closed, its ends will be linked automatically together by a straight line. The mouse pointer goes now with the Paint-brush icon for the next step.
2. Draw a line through the foreground: using the paintbrush, whose size can be changed in options, draw a continuous line in the selected foreground going over colors which will be kept for the extraction. The color used to draw the line is of no importance; not using the same color as foreground is better. Be careful not painting background pixels.
3. When you release the mouse button, all non-selected areas are in dark:
4. You still have to press the Enter key to get the wanted selection
Gimp Foreground Tool - Useful Link: https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-foreground-select.html
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