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How to cut out an object or a person (in GIMP)

How to cut out an object or a person (in GIMP)

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In this tutorial I will show you how to cut out someone or something from a picture using free software gimp. After that you will be able to save the person or… — In this tutorial I will show you how to cut out someone or something from a picture using free software gimp. After that you will be able to save the person or object on your computer (with transparency / no white background) so you can use the person / object later and import them in any other picture at any time!

Why do I need to cut out something or someone?

● To make photo-montages, collages (to make a wallpaper, YouTube thumbnail...)
● To remove white background around something (so you can use the object to make a logo, icon...)
● To make funny memes etc.

Once the person or object is cut out, you can paste them anywhere you want! (examples below)

Click Lasso tool — Once you have opened the picture in gimp with the object / person to cut out, click the free select (lasso icon) tool.

Make the start point — In order to cut out something or someone, we need to make points all around the shape we want to cut out.

Let's make the first point. Just click somewhere on the outline of the shape to cut out.

Add other points all along the outline of the person / object using left click to make points.

To move a misplaced point, just click it and move it while holding down left mouse button!

Click all around the shape — Add other points all along the outline of the person / object using left click to make points.

To move a misplaced point, just click it and move it while holding down left mouse button!

Close selection — Once you're back to the start point, click the start point to close the selection.

Cut the selected person / object — Click
Edit
then
Cut
to cut out the selected shape.

By doing that, the shape will be stored in the computer clipboard.

Paste as new image — So now we have the person / object in the computer clipboard. We can close the original image, we don't need it anymore.

We must paste the shape we have in the clipboard into a new (transparent) image.

Just click
Edit
>
Paste as
>
New Image

Remove other parts — Remove any other parts of the picture that doesn't belong to the object or person.

To do that, we need to use the same tool: Lasso / free select.

1. Make points all around the part to remove (don't forget to close the selection, by clicking the last point).
2. Press the
DELETE
keyboard key to remove the selected content.

(!) — 💾 Save the shape
Now we must save the final shape. Click
File
then
Save As
and enter the name of the object or person, i.e.
girl meditation.xcf

In order to keep transparency, we must save the image as a XCF file or export it as a PNG image. JPEG images doesn't support transparency.

📥 If you want to add / import the object or person
• Open the background picture first
• Click
File
then
Open as Layers...

• Choose the XCF file to import. Your object / person will be added as a new layer, so that you can work on it easily (resize it, rotate it etc.) (view examples in introduction)

That's it! Don't forget to like / comment / follow
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Photos from:
pixabay.com/en/meditation-girl-temp…
pixabay.com/en/cambodia-angkor-temp…
pixabay.com/en/city-sunny-person-wo…
pixabay.com/en/haikou-china-city-bu…

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