Saturday, March 12, 2011

Gimp


This is a poto I took of my nephew a while back at the park :) I wanted to remove the background from the photo. It came out a bit rough, but it took me quite a while. First I used the lasso to go around the subject that I wanted to pull from the photo.  Then I activated the quick mask. I used the paint tool to go around the rough edges and try to tighten them up. I toggled off the quick mask to remove the background. I moved the layer to "alpha to select", inverted then feathered the selection. I couldn't make up my mind what to do with the background, but I saved the image to maybe put something in later.

3 comments:

  1. I love this picture, especially the angle. What made you want to remove the background?

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  2. Thanks, me too its adorable. It was right when he first started to swing by himself :) I don't know I was just looking through some old photos and he kind of pops out of the picture.

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  3. He looks like he is floating in air and not on the ground. It brings the photo to life. Neat!!

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