Can You Keep Hair Detail When Removing a Background?

How to remove a background in GIMP and retain hair detail at the same time! This is an epic tutorial about one of the most difficult tasks when editing photos in GIMP... cutting out the background AND retaining hair detail. Find out the secrets to making this happen!

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[GetItDoneProjects]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This tutorial upped my GIMP game by a 1000Xs. I appreciate you giving so freely of your skills to make my life better. Kudos to you!!!!

[yjinph]

Hi, Yjin Lim here. I'm considering going back to using Windows after installing Linux Mint, but after watching this video tutorial on using GIMP—a method similar to Photoshop—it's awesome! Thank you, sir, and keep up the great work.

Watching from the Philippines.

[rhbusby]

Thanks for this tutorial. I have removed simple backgrounds previously but used a VERY labor and time-intensive process. This saves time and effort and gives excellent results. Addition of shortcuts - BTW they work LinuxI Linux, too is superb. Your pacing and detail is spot on.

[awaitingthetrumpetcall]

Hair, fur, feathers... Thank you for posting such a great tutorial.

[MikeBossO]

Awesome tutorial, awesome guidance, awesome hints and shortcuts. Thank you.

[DerekMoore]

If only I had known about this sooner! I have been painstakingly manually doing it all these years.

[kurt_hansen]

You can also navigate by pressing and holding the middle mouse button 🙂

[hrqejrn]

Not working for me. I dont get the marching ants after i color in the body. Any help?

[cosmo]

hi i have another lesson for you to teach us. lets say we have picture of a bride and groom, we want to remove the groom and in his place add add the back ground with the same back ground that is behind the bride in other words extend the back ground from the bride out to fill the blank thank you Chris

[yoeltruffin]

I did enter and it didn't turn any blue background. I belive that and step is missing.

[Hot.Rod]

Love the video, but when I try it, Gimp keeps crashing.

[pedronied]

If the background to be transposed to is plain white, it's going to look a little blurry no matter what, huh?

[emc]

nothing ever happens when i press enter/delete

[martymartian]

Was going to place thumbs down but, I will just state my grief. Spent an hour tring to locate image used to follow along. Clearly, it was stated the link was in the describtion below, yet even after going to every link listed (> 10) only saw a bunch of stuff that I have no desire to buy, nor would I trust them when I've been tricked into an hour of commercials.