- #Cutting out picture shapes how to#
- #Cutting out picture shapes full#
- #Cutting out picture shapes free#
Scissors icon to restore original look. The 1st icon on the right combines 2 functions:ġ) when it's Brush, you can paint any area to erase it Ģ) when it's Hand, you can drag your pic on screen.
#Cutting out picture shapes how to#
HELPFUL TIPS - HOW TO CREATE THE BEST PHOTO: Delete any specific shape (you can fill it later) or even the whole background by using as eraser the handy brush of adjustable size.
* BLUR EFFECT to hide people/things or just emphasize the mainĮdit your favorite pictures with fast & efficient tool. * Erase specific shapes to remove people and objects xcf file means that you can come back and play with it easily in GIMP.What does Cut Out Shapes: Photo Eraser do? * VERY FAST WAY to delete the background in your pics png file which is compatible with most other programs. I recommend first saving in GIMP’s native. To save the image with a transparent background you need to save it in a format that can handle not having a background (.jpg doesn’t handle transparent backgrounds). To get rid of the marching ants just click outside of the screen or go to ‘select’ then click on ‘none’. Voila, you should now have an image with a transparent background – which actually looks like a bunch of light grey and dark grey squares. Alternatively you can press CTRL I, then from the top menu select ‘Edit’, then ‘Cut’, alternatively you can press CTRL X. On the top menu click on ‘Select’, then ‘Invert’. Now you need to invert and cut out image. On the top menu go to ‘Layer’, scroll down to ‘Transparency’, then click on ‘Add Alpha Channel’.Ĩ. This helps GIMP to create a transparent background. Your line should now looking like ‘marching ants’.ħ. Go back to the left hand side menu and click the button ‘ create selection from path‘. Do this by clicking on the line and while holding down the mouse button ‘pull’ the line in and out.Ħ. You can now, if you need to, go back and pull the line around your image in and out to match closer to your ideal cutting line.
#Cutting out picture shapes full#
When you are on the last anchor hold down the CTRL button and click on the first anchor, this connects the first and last anchors and creates a full loop around your image.ĥ. Important step: you must connect the first and last anchor. Using the mouse click a line around your image.Ĥ. Anchors are the dots that appear when you click the mouse on your image with the selected path tool. Select the path tool from the menu (if you’ve just opened GIMP and haven’t played around with it too much the menu is on the left hand side of your screen), the path tool looks like this:ģ.
I’m going to cut my little friend ‘Pinkie’ out from the white background, so I can put this Pinkie image onto other images.Ģ. Open your picture, you can use whatever format your picture is in e.g.jpg. See my article on OERs for more information on open resources.ġ. A big difference is that Photoshop is proprietary and can cost quite a lot to buy, while GIMP is free.
#Cutting out picture shapes free#
If you don’t know about GIMP, this GNU Image Manipulation Program is open source, free to use and is incredibly similar to Photoshop. – Help, GIMP isn’t working! Here’s what to do This means you can extract part of an image and paste it into another image, or you can save it with a transparent background, or you can combine it with other images in a collage – you can do lots of things, just let your imagination take over. Cutting out an image, or ‘rendering’ an image, is one of the most useful things you can learn to do.
Here is how to cut out an image using GIMP.
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