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#1 User is offline   lamaz1928 

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Posted 11 March 2008 - 03:32 AM

So far i have come up with a good method of cutting people, things, and designs/text out. Most people find to be time consuming and frustrating. Maybe i can help cut down on the time.

1. What you want to do is find your image, and go ahead and put it in a "transparent" layer or File>New. Select any size but make sure it is transparent. You can get your image anywhere, doesn't have to be cutout or have a solid background or anything. Just make sure it has a background so you can actually do the tutorial :P
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2. Once you have your image, you want to get the magic brush tool. Select parts of the background and delete. ( if background is to detailed, it will only select a small part. If this is so, proceed to next step )
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3. When you have deleted most of it, go back and use the eraser tool to erase any other background spots.
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4. Once this is done, you will need to start the long boring process of erasing the small pixels with the eraser. Zoom in and make the brush smaller, and delete any of the background that is visible. If your afraid to delete one part, skip it and we'll get to it later.
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5. It should look something similar to this when you are done.
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Maybe a few background spots, but thats ok. Now to step 6....mwuhaha

6. A little touch is good right? Always need to make it look great. If you've ever made a sig, background, or any picture, you'll know it doesn't look good with just straight out "Liney" pixels. So i like to add a "tiny" bit of Gaussian Blur to the edges of the main picture. Select the lining with the "lasso" tool and go to Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Set the Horizontal and Vertical from 1-5. Do this around all of your image and the white will magically disappear making our new cutout picture stand out :D
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This is product i made from the tutorial :D
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very very simple. thanks for reading. any questions PM me or email me at lamaz1927@gmail.com
please leave a comment :D
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#2 User is offline   zenron 

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Posted 11 March 2008 - 04:54 PM

or you could just use the pathtool
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#3 User is offline   Gheko 

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Posted 11 March 2008 - 06:51 PM

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or you could just use the pathtool


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#4 User is offline   Alien Mars 

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Posted 11 March 2008 - 08:05 PM

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or you could just use the pathtool

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quoted for even MORE truth, lol,

the path tools a hard tool to use, why dont you make a tut for that? :w:


btw: the tut dosent go into much detail though, like, how do you
know when parts of the render is the background?
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#5 User is offline   lamaz1928 

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Posted 11 March 2008 - 08:50 PM

yea im horrible at paths. this is for some of the guys that feel the same way.
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Posted 12 March 2008 - 03:27 AM

the paths tool is annoying .... the scissors select tool is a much easier way to do it ........ course you do have to erase some of the stuff that usually gets left behind .... but ......... it is MUCH easier than the paths tool
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Posted 12 March 2008 - 07:45 PM

another way is because the background is mainly one colour. just use the color picker tool
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Posted 13 March 2008 - 12:29 AM

Sometimes the color-picker tool picks too much... I use fuzzy select (magic wand).
pixkid@macmini~$ open -a Gimp.app
bash: you want fries with that
pixkid@macmini~$ echo No thank you, I am on a diet.
bash: you make me feel unloved with your excuses
pixkid@macmini~$ echo What? Are you insinuating that I do not eat your food? When did shells ever execute commands relevant to cooking?
bash: shells duh ever think of seafood
pixkid@macmini~$ echo No fair, stop searching puns, you have Lynx and Google to use!
bash: ugh you humans are so annoying
bash: logout

[Process completed]
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Posted 16 March 2008 - 12:21 PM

There's now a tool for this in 2.4.2 called "foreground select". There is a tutorial (video) at http://www.gimp.org/...2.4-videos.html It makes such easy work of this process. The attached pic was originally two images, one of my niece at some lake in California, and the other at Reagan National Airport. It only took about ten minutes or so.
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Posted 16 March 2008 - 01:14 PM

if the color tool picks up to much. just mess with the threshhold.
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