Gimp tutorial - How to combine / blend two pictures together

In this tutorial we will show you how to put and combine to pictures together (blend) in order to make one picture in the background and the other in the foreground by using transparency.

How it is done:

1: You need 2 pictures to work with 1 background and 1 objective

2: Press: File - Open, and import your objective pic

3: Layer - Transparency - Add Alpha Channel

4: Select the Eraser tool

5: Lower it's spacing to about 2

6: And delete all the objective's background

7: Go to: File - Export As...

8: Change the extension to .png

9: And select PNG format (for transparency)

10: File - Close all - Discard

11: File - Open as Layers...

12: Select your background image

13: File - Open as Layers...

14: Select the PNG you saved earlier.

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[aidanhowe]

I like how this person is making a charming picture of Taylor Swift and I'm making cursed images of frogs with teeth.

[pccomputer]

i searched Youtube a lot for this and almost all of them were a lengthy BS, but this one was right on the target .thank you very much man, that was really helpful .

[JoshCartman]

Hi, I just saw your video, realizing it's about 5 1/2 years old at this point. I played around with it, and noticed that now (not sure about old versions), you can go ahead and Insert all necessary pictures (Open as Layers) at once. Once you've done that, you can edit each layer, as needed, by selecting the layer on the right, and then right-clicking on the image. You'll get the Context menu, where you can navigate to the Layer Menu>Transparency, and then you either select Add Alpha Channel or Alpha to Selection, I forget which it is. Then you can erase as needed. Repeat for each layer needed to have parts erased.

[joelschama]

It's really much easier and cleaner to use the scissors selection to copy the image you want rather than trying to erase the background to transparent, as when you did so you left some of the background from the Taylor Swift background. Once selected with scissors tool you can easily remove edging issues and can use smudge so it blends better with the background.

[pancakeofdestiny]

That was idiot-proof! Thank you. Now on to a long, fruitful career of meme-ing.

[yaglehoole]

Thank you very much! This vid gets right to the point -- no fluff, no fodder, just the works.

[jamesengeliii]

Truly grateful to see a tutorial vid that's short and straight to the point.

[artsylady]

Thank you for making this task so simple. I've seen tons of videos on this step that are so complicated. Thank you for sharing!

[BugsyTheCat]

Thanks so much! I've been looking around all day and this guide is the only one I found that actually helped! Thanks for the tutorial given in the description area!

[caerffili_callin]

Very useful thank you. Much easier to follow than some tutorials I watched.

[YD]

You, Sir, are a Gidi Jedi Master. I've looked at at least five other tutorials on doing this and they were either counterintuitive or simply did not work as advertised. Thank you.

[sawerashafiq]

I really appreciate your job. thanks for supplying us with the data .keep it up.
Amazing place with the hard job you have completed
Good Working Thanks for sharing keep it up.

[SultrySoultress]

Thank you, You made it Look so easy, I did learn a quicker way to change the background to alpha, but you made what I was trying to do with other videos work, who knows, but Thank you.

[KenzoArts]

Thanks for this nice tutorial. What sofwares (audio et video editing, also screen sharing software) do you use in your tutorials. Please would share with us ?

[WarrenBurstein]

Words are a useful way to communicate.

[edwardfajardo]

thank you exactly what i was looking for!

[blazenpeach]

Hey, Just wanted to say thank you for the upload. Works great and I was going crazy until I found your video.

[krishanudutta]

This was very good! But how do I save the final image in some other file format as I am unable to convert it

[horacecrogman]

This was super helpful! Now:

Let's say I have two images (a background and a T-shirt), I took out the color in the t-shirt (the alpha trick you showed), and would like the background to fit the area in the t-shirt. How do you resize one image (here the background) to fit the other (the t-shirt) without reducing the size of the t-shirt as well?

[Epic-hskl]

All those guides are useless glad you posted this the main reason photoshop was made was to merge pictures and edit but those guides are so useless thanks for uploading this <3