Gimp 2.8 is doing its best to annoy me. Do any of you have any tips? (I have googled the manual and it didn't help.) What I want to do is separate an object from the background. I've tried intelligent scissors and pressing clear just clears the lot, rather than the background. Ditto free select. And I just end up with a trailing free select lasso over the object I want to separate. Bev.
On 21/04/18 20:24, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Gimp 2.8 is doing its best to annoy me. Do any of you have any tips? (I have googled the manual and it didn't help.)
What I want to do is separate an object from the background. I've tried intelligent scissors and pressing clear just clears the lot, rather than the background. Ditto free select. And I just end up with a trailing free select lasso over the object I want to separate.
If doing something like that, I often find myself selecting the thing I want, doing copy, then paste - into new image. That way I get only what I want. Gimp is very capable, but I don't have a clue how to use it! Good luck Steve
On 21/04/18 20:44, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 21/04/18 20:24, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Gimp 2.8 is doing its best to annoy me. Do any of you have any tips? (I have googled the manual and it didn't help.)
What I want to do is separate an object from the background. I've tried intelligent scissors and pressing clear just clears the lot, rather than the background. Ditto free select. And I just end up with a trailing free select lasso over the object I want to separate.
If doing something like that, I often find myself selecting the thing I want, doing copy, then paste - into new image. That way I get only what I want.
Gimp is very capable, but I don't have a clue how to use it!
Good luck
Steve
Have finally had success doing this. Thank goodness for that. Bev.
On 21 Apr 20:24, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Gimp 2.8 is doing its best to annoy me. Do any of you have any tips? (I have googled the manual and it didn't help.)
What I want to do is separate an object from the background. I've tried intelligent scissors and pressing clear just clears the lot, rather than the background. Ditto free select. And I just end up with a trailing free select lasso over the object I want to separate.
Because you were using the clear function, you should have inverted the selection before doing the clear, then the bit that you wanted would have remained. Thanks, -- Brett Parker
On 23/04/18 10:24, Brett Parker wrote:
On 21 Apr 20:24, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Gimp 2.8 is doing its best to annoy me. Do any of you have any tips? (I have googled the manual and it didn't help.)
What I want to do is separate an object from the background. I've tried intelligent scissors and pressing clear just clears the lot, rather than the background. Ditto free select. And I just end up with a trailing free select lasso over the object I want to separate.
Because you were using the clear function, you should have inverted the selection before doing the clear, then the bit that you wanted would have remained.
Thanks,
I tried that with intelligent scissors on the original photo. Nothing. Tried it again with free select and that worked. Bev.
On 23 Apr 18:55, Bev Nicolson wrote:
On 23/04/18 10:24, Brett Parker wrote:
On 21 Apr 20:24, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Gimp 2.8 is doing its best to annoy me. Do any of you have any tips? (I have googled the manual and it didn't help.)
What I want to do is separate an object from the background. I've tried intelligent scissors and pressing clear just clears the lot, rather than the background. Ditto free select. And I just end up with a trailing free select lasso over the object I want to separate.
Because you were using the clear function, you should have inverted the selection before doing the clear, then the bit that you wanted would have remained.
Thanks,
I tried that with intelligent scissors on the original photo. Nothing. Tried it again with free select and that worked.
At a guess, and this is purely a guess, I'd say that you didn't finish with the intelligent scissors to end up with a selection, once you join the path together, you have to click in the inside of the path to get the selection, then you can invert it and clear, as you'd expect. Thanks, -- Brett Parker
I tried that with intelligent scissors on the original photo. Nothing. Tried it again with free select and that worked.
At a guess, and this is purely a guess, I'd say that you didn't finish with the intelligent scissors to end up with a selection, once you join the path together, you have to click in the inside of the path to get the selection, then you can invert it and clear, as you'd expect.
Thanks,
OK, just for you (and the list) I have just tried that again. I'm not aware they mention this detail in the manual, but still. Yes it did work. Bev.
On 23/04/18 22:56, Bev Nicolson wrote:
I tried that with intelligent scissors on the original photo. Nothing. Tried it again with free select and that worked.
At a guess, and this is purely a guess, I'd say that you didn't finish with the intelligent scissors to end up with a selection, once you join the path together, you have to click in the inside of the path to get the selection, then you can invert it and clear, as you'd expect.
Thanks,
OK, just for you (and the list) I have just tried that again. I'm not aware they mention this detail in the manual, but still. Yes it did work.
A method I use to remove objects from the background is to change the background colour to alpha (transparent). It can then be cut and pasted with relative ease. Clearly that only works when the background is a simple one. Nev
On 23/04/18 22:56, Bev Nicolson wrote:
I tried that with intelligent scissors on the original photo. Nothing. Tried it again with free select and that worked.
At a guess, and this is purely a guess, I'd say that you didn't finish with the intelligent scissors to end up with a selection, once you join the path together, you have to click in the inside of the path to get the selection, then you can invert it and clear, as you'd expect.
Thanks,
OK, just for you (and the list) I have just tried that again. I'm not aware they mention this detail in the manual, but still. Yes it did work.
A method I use to remove objects from the background is to change the background colour to alpha (transparent). It can then be cut and pasted with relative ease. Clearly that only works when the background is a simple one. Nev
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