>Alright, thank you. > >Now, will that work for cutting out anime characters for Sigs? Or is >there a different process?
You can use that method to remove a background only if the background is a solid colour. Any complicated background requires other methods. More usually it is called foreground extraction and there are reams written about this. It is a subject on its own. No real definitive way, it all depends on the image. You can go round the outline with free-select tool or the scissors tool or using the path tool (and a selection from the path is a good way). I use a filter from a 3rd party plugin called gmic. Since you are using Gimp 2.10 you could try the foreground select tool. There are videos and descriptions of how it works, this is a good start. http://gimplearn.net/viewtopic.php/GIMP-Tutorials/Foreground-Select-tool--Extracted-from-a-video?f=10&t=1383 Briefly, You make a selection, paint in the foreground, touch up bits of the background that are missing. All using the tool options. Get a strange looking object like screenshot 1. Apply that, gives a selection of the foreground. Copy the selection, Paste it as a new image. screenshot 2 Note. The chequer board pattern is Gimps way to depict transparency. Save as a Gimp .xcf or export as a .png which keeps that transparency. Attachments: * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/938/original/01-foreground.jpg * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/939/original/02-anime.jpg -- rich404 (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list