VIDEO: Image processing: cut out person
Cut out people from photos using image editing
Sometimes it happens that you photos not only want to upgrade or change the usual properties, such as exposure, contrast or depth of field. It is also possible that you for example an object or a person completely from a picture cut out to incorporate into another photo later or with a transparent background to save. the image editing "GIMP" masters this task too.
- Open your GIMP photo editor. If you have not yet installed this tool on your computer, you can find it on the CHIP.de website download it for free and then install. The installation takes up little time and space and you receive the program with German language output.
- So after opening the GIMP, go to the "Open" button via the "File" menu and left-click on it once. The directory tree of your file system opens, in which you can now search for and select the desired image to be edited so that it is displayed in the GIMP.
- On the left side of the toolbar you will see an icon that is shaped like a lasso or a loop. If you click on this button, unlike the rectangle or the Elypse, you can mark a freely selectable area in your photo. With the first click in the photo, you set the start marker.
- Drag the mouse a little bit along the outside edge of the person you want to cut out. You can see that you are drawing a line with it. If you click the left mouse button again, a second marking point is set. Move the cursor further and click again for the next point.
- Using this principle, you can now circle the depicted person point by point with the help of the visible line along the edges until you reach the starting point. If you then double-click with the left mouse button on point one, the marking closes. It now appears as a dashed animated selection.
- In the "Edit" menu you will find an option labeled "Cut" with a small scissors symbol in front of it. If you click on it, the area you just marked will be cut out of the photo. This section is not lost now, but is in the so-called clipboard. You can use "Edit" and "Paste" to make this clipboard visible again at any point or when you are editing the image in another way.
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To increase the accuracy when setting the individual marking points, you can also enlarge the image. This looks ugly at first, but you can hit the edges with more pixel precision and mark corners and curves better. When the marker is closed, reset the image to its standard size.
