This is the best tutorial I've ever seen. I believe this is because you know how to teach. Many people know GIMP, like many people know Chinese or how to fix a television. But that is not the important thing. Your teaching method is very good. You avoid the irritating tangents and "small talk", you avoided a long, useless introduction, you refrain from whipping your cursor around for no reason, you say precisely what you are doing, without useless comments, and the pace of your speech is good. Kudos to you!
I spent literally hours trying to accomplish this via steps learned in other tutorials. Within 30 minutes of watching this video I had fixed my son's school picture (red gradiated background) to a grey background, including the bits shining through his hair. Wonderful work, thank you for posting it.
Another way to get rid of the white lining would be to edit the layermask with the curves tool. Either blur it and then level it with the curves, or try the curves themselves. That way you can keep the original hairline and if you get it to work it can be faster than using the copy tool. Great tutorial btw :)
excellent tutorial. most of the gimp youtubers today don't explain/teach these kind of easy techniques because they want to sell their techniques in websites like udemy for people who can afford their fees. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge..👍🙏👏
Fantastic, thankyou. I have been trying to do this for ages watching someone elses video but I kept failing. Watched your video once and got it first time :-)
You're a genius! I simply don't have a 'computer' brain and what you are able to do amazes me. Thanks for helping me to understand how much work is involved in using GIMP.
I have watched many gimp tutorials and found this to be the best so far. I love that you had audio that explained what you were doing and also moved slow enough for me to follow along. Thank you so much!
Thank you for keeping this simple and effective. Great technique for getting 90% of the way there. And your technique for using clone to fix the color is a game-changer for me. Awesome!
I wish I'd known how to do this YEARS ago....excellent tut; I'm subscribed, and am gonna start learning 4 real...1 lesson a day 4 60 days....thanx, teach!
Thank you for such a clear and well made tutorial ... I have been GIMPing pics for SL for ages and its always taken so long to do the hair bit by bit ... thank thank thank
I've watched a few vids of yours, and I have to say I love that you don't beat around the bush, you don't have music playing in the background and you don't take forever to say what you mean. I'm pretty good with the things I know about Gimp and I'm great at figuring stuff out as I go but, darnnit, there are just some things someone needs to teach you. You're a GREAT teacher! Thanks for the vids. I would also love to know what you use to record your desktop and how to Zoom also! Thanks!
I have to say, YOU ARE TOTALLY AWESOME! I have been working working with Gimp for several years now, and am quite proficient. Creating a .png file from .jpg has always confounded me in the past... I've always taken the long way around, with the fuzzy select tool. Now I know the quick and simple way. Thanks for sharing... (5 Stars to you).
I've been doing this the hard way using the wand and selecting the backround(usually easier than doing the hair), feathering the selection, then making that transperent. It does have the advantage of preserving the original image better as you don't get the the issue she shows at 4:20 and hence no need to clone.
Oh my gosh - I've seen similar tutorials (removing background from hair) and this is the first one that actually made sense to me! Excellent job! Thank you
First of all, thank you for tutorial, really helpful and straight to the point, in second, for someone that is used to photoshop and want to try the alternatives, this is a mess
That's the problem with some open source programs: they are really powerful, but not so easy to use. Gimp and Blender come to my mind. But they are free and if you are interested, then you will learn it by using them and won't have to pay anything. Anyway, I also have to say that the Adobe software isn't easy either. Specially if you have never used it. I guess for you is easy becuase you have used it. But somehow I think their options are hidden and hard to find.
This tutorial was fantastic thank you so much! I had to do some funky stuff with my particular image to get the masking to work (background was too similar to the flesh tone and uneven lighting) but you saved me SO much grief with getting the hair to look normal!
Umm..... I enjoyed your voice lady.... Fell in love with it actually.... i just love the way you speak..... cool and huh..... very nice tutorial.... Thank you for creating one and keep making such tutorials.... Have a great life
I would suggest you lock the layer alpha channel while touching up the hair/removing the rest of the background color. There sure are more elegant methods than just cloning in hair from other parts, it is clearly visible that the structure is wrong. You could add some monochrome noise in those parts and use a smudge tool and so on, there are a lot of creative ways. When you use the clone tool, maybe you should choose a part of the image where the hair falls the same way.
Not bad, but personally I use more of an unorthodox technique: I'll cut around the hour manually, also cutting out parts where you can see through the hair and whatnot, then I'll use a series of brushes to add the effect of strands. I then use a 'behind' paint tool on a medium blurred sphere of about 1.00 circumference and create bridges of hair strands, for want of a better term. Being doing that for years and it always turns out fine, once you add HSV noise or something any imperfections are basically imperceptible.
I found this concise, informative and incredible that you got all that and enlargements of controls, every second was full of detail no coughing, stuttering or hesitation, very professional presentation thanks.. Can i assume that a layer like this could remain with a transparent background and layered over another photo and if so have you made a tutorial of this?
I was just about telling you to use the burn/dodge tool instead of cloning but apparently you added a note so well. I would just add the ginger on the picture is hot. Add freckles and nerdy glasses and I freaking chase her down. =D
I'm going to try this tutorial. I'm under the assumption that same idea applies if the subject is African-American with a brown complexion and black hair. Or sjhould it be easier since the hair color is already a stark contrast to the background if the background is a lighter color. Thanks for your help!
Great video. I learned from it. However, instead of trying to clone hair at the end, you could have duplicated the layer. Then colorize it to the hair color and give it a layer mask. Then touch up the areas that had the blue fringes. I love your channel and subscribed
This is the best tutorial I've ever seen. I believe this is because you know how to teach. Many people know GIMP, like many people know Chinese or how to fix a television. But that is not the important thing. Your teaching method is very good. You avoid the irritating tangents and "small talk", you avoided a long, useless introduction, you refrain from whipping your cursor around for no reason, you say precisely what you are doing, without useless comments, and the pace of your speech is good. Kudos to you!
I know lol so glad I found her channel!
very good i am 80 and i understood her good luck
I spent literally hours trying to accomplish this via steps learned in other tutorials. Within 30 minutes of watching this video I had fixed my son's school picture (red gradiated background) to a grey background, including the bits shining through his hair. Wonderful work, thank you for posting it.
You have a great manner of teaching step-by-step. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.
Another way to get rid of the white lining would be to edit the layermask with the curves tool. Either blur it and then level it with the curves, or try the curves themselves. That way you can keep the original hairline and if you get it to work it can be faster than using the copy tool. Great tutorial btw :)
excellent tutorial. most of the gimp youtubers today don't explain/teach these kind of easy techniques because they want to sell their techniques in websites like udemy for people who can afford their fees. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge..👍🙏👏
Fantastic, thankyou. I have been trying to do this for ages watching someone elses video but I kept failing. Watched your video once and got it first time :-)
The clone tool is what really sets this apart from other tutorials. I usually avoid brushing stuff in myself, but this made it look less intimidating.
You're a genius! I simply don't have a 'computer' brain and what you are able to do amazes me. Thanks for helping me to understand how much work is involved in using GIMP.
I've seen tutorials on this subject 3 times in the past, yours as much better, as it usually is.
I tried a couple of different tutorials and methods before I found yours. Yours is the best! Thank you for explaining so clearly how to achieve this!
Still the best tutorial on this and it's 12 years old!
I have watched many gimp tutorials and found this to be the best so far. I love that you had audio that explained what you were doing and also moved slow enough for me to follow along. Thank you so much!
what i learned..............choose images without hair LOL
I love you I love you I love you God !!!!! I tried in million way to get hair perfectly and now this video shine me.. thank you so much !
Hands down the best hair masking tutorial I've seen so far. Fantastic job!
The viewer to like ratio is highly suspicious though.
Thank you for keeping this simple and effective. Great technique for getting 90% of the way there. And your technique for using clone to fix the color is a game-changer for me. Awesome!
I wish I'd known how to do this YEARS ago....excellent tut; I'm subscribed, and am gonna start learning 4 real...1 lesson a day 4 60 days....thanx, teach!
Thank you for such a clear and well made tutorial ... I have been GIMPing pics for SL for ages and its always taken so long to do the hair bit by bit ... thank thank thank
THANK YOU!! I have curly hair and have been having a hard time cuting myself from pictures. Your tutorials are always the best.
Thanks Joley, this is so much easier than zooming and using the Lasso tool.
Brilliant tutorial. Deleting background from a picture which contains details like hair can be time consuming.
GIMPtricks, you are outstanding! Thanx again for a clear and to the point tutorial.
Awesome! I'm a Gimp noob and quite a ways from doing this kind of thing, but it's nice to know what I'll be able to do eventually! Thanks so much.
I've watched a few vids of yours, and I have to say I love that you don't beat around the bush, you don't have music playing in the background and you don't take forever to say what you mean. I'm pretty good with the things I know about Gimp and I'm great at figuring stuff out as I go but, darnnit, there are just some things someone needs to teach you. You're a GREAT teacher! Thanks for the vids. I would also love to know what you use to record your desktop and how to Zoom also! Thanks!
This is the best tutorial I've seen yet on doing anything in GIMP. Thank you very much and keep it up!
I have to say, YOU ARE TOTALLY AWESOME! I have been working working with Gimp for several years now, and am quite proficient. Creating a .png file from .jpg has always confounded me in the past... I've always taken the long way around, with the fuzzy select tool. Now I know the quick and simple way. Thanks for sharing... (5 Stars to you).
This video tutorial is amazing. It's really nice to make PNGs now without having leftovers of the background. Thanks so much!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I have been looking for a good, clear tutorial that actually EXPLAINS how to do it!
I did this from time to time but never came up with the idea of cloning! Great video. Thanks!
I've been doing this the hard way using the wand and selecting the backround(usually easier than doing the hair), feathering the selection, then making that transperent. It does have the advantage of preserving the original image better as you don't get the the issue she shows at 4:20 and hence no need to clone.
Thank you for this excellent tutorial. I have returned to it many times.
Oh my gosh - I've seen similar tutorials (removing background from hair) and this is the first one that actually made sense to me!
Excellent job!
Thank you
gimp tricks what if the background has different colors haw you can make it one color
First of all, thank you for tutorial, really helpful and straight to the point, in second, for someone that is used to photoshop and want to try the alternatives, this is a mess
That's the problem with some open source programs: they are really powerful, but not so easy to use. Gimp and Blender come to my mind. But they are free and if you are interested, then you will learn it by using them and won't have to pay anything.
Anyway, I also have to say that the Adobe software isn't easy either. Specially if you have never used it. I guess for you is easy becuase you have used it. But somehow I think their options are hidden and hard to find.
Very well done and so helpful. So much better than most tutorials I've seen for Gimp and thank you so much for the lesson.
Thanks by far the easiest way for me to cut out the background.
.......that selection idea was freaking brilliant
This is the best tutorial I have seen on isolating hair in GIMP! Thank you! I need to go and try this out!
this is literally the most helpful thing ive found so far
This tutorial was fantastic thank you so much! I had to do some funky stuff with my particular image to get the masking to work (background was too similar to the flesh tone and uneven lighting) but you saved me SO much grief with getting the hair to look normal!
The lady is Dutch and sadly became unwell, hopefully she is better now, I cannot say, but her graphics videos are legend :D
I hope she got better! I absolutely adore her.
her voice is adorable 4 sure :D
She passed 24-10-2018
@@wilstijger1958she was a beautiful person, life is just so fragile, its almost hello and goodbye. RIP Gimptricks.
@@wilstijger1958 oh bad :(
Such an elegant way of achieving this!
Wow, this was more informative than a couple classes I took at college . . lol , because it's in a conveinyent video format :]
This tutorial is going to make my editing so much easier. I think I love you.
Saved my day, couldn't work it out until I had seen this. You have got my subscription
Excellent tutorial. Your clear step by step instructions are easy to follow making this very helpful. Thank you!
I always come back to this video. I can't seem to remember how to do this. Anyway, thanks for all the help.
i was doing it the most painful way possible. aaargghhhh how much time i hv wasted. i hate myself ... and i love you
Stunning good lesson to achieve a difficult visual edit task with ease.
Thank you make it sound doable. I look forward to trying it.
Versions have changed over the years but the concept is the same.
and i've been cropping my pictures manually.
You and I both buddy ... I wish I learned these tricks earlier ;-/
This is just great! After I successfully followed your directions I was siting in front of the monitor speechless! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! :D
this is going to help make the cutouts in my yearbook designs so much better! thankyou :)
This is very useful, I have often had trouble with hair. Thanks!
You are a total life saver! :) ty...still learning gimp but you have just made it simple to use. Give great direction. TY TY TY
Brilliant! What a great idea, cutting out hair is always such a pain. Thanks!
Umm..... I enjoyed your voice lady.... Fell in love with it actually.... i just love the way you speak..... cool and huh..... very nice tutorial.... Thank you for creating one and keep making such tutorials.... Have a great life
I would suggest you lock the layer alpha channel while touching up the hair/removing the rest of the background color. There sure are more elegant methods than just cloning in hair from other parts, it is clearly visible that the structure is wrong. You could add some monochrome noise in those parts and use a smudge tool and so on, there are a lot of creative ways. When you use the clone tool, maybe you should choose a part of the image where the hair falls the same way.
Thank you for this great presentation
There actually isn't a way to thank you enough....!! The only thing i can do is like and subscribe...THAAAANKS
thanks so much! Your videos are answering so many questions about things in both gimp and photoshop! :)
Thanks for making it clear and simple!
Great tut., very instructing, i always have that exact problem. i wont using it right now, but i will soon enough. It goes to favorites.
FINALLY! I CAN ACTUALLY RENDER NOW! (That paths tool is totally useless -.-)
It takes forever, but it definitely works. Thanks.
Not bad, but personally I use more of an unorthodox technique: I'll cut around the hour manually, also cutting out parts where you can see through the hair and whatnot, then I'll use a series of brushes to add the effect of strands. I then use a 'behind' paint tool on a medium blurred sphere of about 1.00 circumference and create bridges of hair strands, for want of a better term. Being doing that for years and it always turns out fine, once you add HSV noise or something any imperfections are basically imperceptible.
Thank you! That is very helpful and I am impressed by your mastery of Gimp technique.
I found this concise, informative and incredible that you got all that and enlargements of controls, every second was full of detail no coughing, stuttering or hesitation, very professional presentation thanks.. Can i assume that a layer like this could remain with a transparent background and layered over another photo and if so have you made a tutorial of this?
very good tutorial covers a lot of points in an easy to understand way.
Thanks a ton! Your tutorials are absolutely amongst the best!
Wow. That was concise, informative, and accurate.
VERY well done!! Thank you so much.
Watching this in 2019, and still the best! Thanks!
thank you very much! it was very helpful! I use it in other images... not only ones with hair and it worked perfectly... so thanks...
Incredible tutorial!! It inspired me to make an updated version using different technique. I've done it on my channel.
Thank you so so so so so much! I just started using gimp tonight and this really helped. Great job!
I was just about telling you to use the burn/dodge tool instead of cloning but apparently you added a note so well.
I would just add the ginger on the picture is hot. Add freckles and nerdy glasses and I freaking chase her down. =D
BEST TUTORIAL EVER!
Yes, that helped immensely. I know have a better understanding of what layer masks are and do. Plus, I love ur accent.
Excellent. This is very well done. Great technique and I can't wait to try it out.
Pretty neat trick. That's way easier than manually cutting her out of the background.
This was very nicely done, and timely. thanks.
very clear instructions, great demo - thank you
Great way to explain the procedure. Found it simple and very helpful. Thank you!
Wonderful tutorial. Thank you so much, Anita!
You explained this tutorial in such great detail! Thank you so much for your help!!
Incredible. Thank you for this great tutorial
Thanks, really helpful!
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Women are great tutors
7 yeas old but still perfectly adapted :) ty
you are my first teacher!
Pretty cool. I probably would have just messed with color selections and messed everything up LOL This is skill.
I'm going to try this tutorial. I'm under the assumption that same idea applies if the subject is African-American with a brown complexion and black hair. Or sjhould it be easier since the hair color is already a stark contrast to the background if the background is a lighter color. Thanks for your help!
This is an amazing tutorial, as are all them in your group. I understand you have been ill. Please accept my very best wishes.
I enjoy these new tutorials. Thanks
VERY helpful. I never knew of this technique.
It just goes to show that you can do some really neat stuff with gimp.
Great video. I learned from it. However, instead of trying to clone hair at the end, you could have duplicated the layer. Then colorize it to the hair color and give it a layer mask. Then touch up the areas that had the blue fringes. I love your channel and subscribed
Amazing!! Your video is perfect, you really make this a process that one can learn!!! Thank you!! Keep up the good work!!
thanks very helpful and easy
(greatest teacher ever)
Thank you very much - you make the best tutorials!
holy Sh*t this is sorcery