How to Add Someone to a Photo in GIMP

Add someone from one photo to another photo using this beginner-friendly GIMP photo manipulation tutorial! With GIMP, the free photo editor, you can easily take a subject from a photo and place it in another image. Using the background removal, color correcting, and shading techniques I discuss in this tutorial, you'll be able to realistically add anybody missing in your photos!

I use GIMP 2.10.30 for this tutorial, which is the latest version of GIMP at the time of the recording.

0:00 - Intro & Resources
1:04 - Open Images
1:47 - Remove Image Background
4:21 - Add Subject to New Photo
5:48 - Match Luminosity
8:14 - Color Match
11:18 - Mask Out Subject
17:07 - Sharpening & Shading
19:08 - Check Composite Match
19:28 - Add Color Grading
20:24 - Final Thoughts

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[DaviesMediaDesign]

Who are you adding to your photos with GIMP?

[kuangmengg]

I have been using GIMP for many years and just discovered your video, I have to say that I learnt a lot of useful tips and method to work with GIMP to add shading and color correction. Thanks for the useful and straight to the point explanation, it's rare to find video that I can keep on listening without falling asleep or lose focus because of too much unnecessary talk. Keep up the good work pal.

[mikemoctari]

Most complete and best tutorial ever for Gimp, i wasted my time trying other tutorials.thank you

[peterkirui]

Great video. The explanation is wonderful. I will have to watch this over and over to understand the process.

[CodexCornerGames]

Great video. Clear, concise and to the point. Thanks.

[fragilegods]

Are you aware of Runway ML's tool to remove backgrounds from people? It can be a real time saver instead of doing those painstaking cutouts with the path tool.

[tanyalove]

HI I just love the way you explain everything in great detail and step by step. I will write down each stage so that if I want to do something in the future I can refer to my hand written notes. Thank you so much. It is exactly what I need all instructions step by step. You are fantastic!!!! I need to make rectangles in a picture then move my rectangle to a new location on the same picture. Is that easy to do? perhaps you have a tutorial for that I am sure you could explain it quickly and simply to you it is so basic. Thank you so much. You are a fantastic artistic, great teacher and communicator. Love you!!!!

[AOEZ]

Nice tutorial, also bro is so handsome

[JOEAPPLE]

Great!!!! Gonna photobomb my highschool photos now which i was absent 🤣🤣😂🤣🤣

[accesorioslindapaula]

Muchas gracias. Con tus vídeos siempre aprendo algo nuevo.

[kistler]

I wouldn't mind paying $20 for your course if there were a Q and A session available. I have specific questions about using GIMP. Sometimes it locks up and it often turns out that I didn't complete a process, but it's aggravating and I would like to be able to ask specific questions.

[rodneywood]

Hi and thanks for your very helpful videos. I wondered if you could do one one adding a person into a picture in the centre. We have a b & w print taken on a cruise with our late daughter missing but there isn't enough room to add her as the print has two on the left leaning in and two on the right leaning in. i tried to add her in above the rest of us but it looks too ethereal like she is visiting us from above. Nice thought but not ideal. ideally I need to add more space in the centre. Tried the curve tool but not correct. Thanks to anyone in advance.

[raandomplayer]

Very useful. Thank you for the tutorial.

[fishbarbeque]

I have your course and it is so good! thank you mike.

[rosariobatol]

It's too much for a senior to follow.thx

[Kumar_harsh]

Thanks Davies ! Our gimp community's most respected person 🌻

When will the cmyk support will come to gimp :/ any idea?

[videoal]

Totally lost. Will need to take a course on GIMP. LOL!

[Greystone_gaming]

I must have done something wrong because at the part where I am supposed to fill the path, it doesnt show the image, it literally fill its white

[njcolvin]

im so confused. it did not fill it in with white. it put the guy behind them. mine just fills it in with white which is not the goal.

[Not-just-doing-I.T.]

@11:40 you create a Layer Group, however, you are happy where you have placed the inserted subject. I need to move the subject as my position at this point is incorrect. I am really struggling to do this. If I try and move, what I think is the layer containing the subject, I appear to be moving a mask and not the actual 'masked figure'.