Oct
1
2008

Separating image with masks – Gimp videoturorial

Category: Tutorials

Here’s short (6 minutes) tutorial showing how to separate a complex object in GIMP. It’s extremely useful for cutting out hair blown in the wind.

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You can download higher resolution video for that tutorial here.

9 Comments »

  1. Mirco Oct 01, 2008

    Very useful! But could you post a text explanation, please?

  2. yonason Oct 03, 2008

    Thanks. I’m new to GIMP, and image manipulation programs in general, so even though I understand the concepts it’s not easy because I have to learn which buttons do what, what sequence to use them in, and where they are located. I’m afraid it’s going to take me a while, but with some more good tutorials like this one I’ll eventually get it.

  3. alex Oct 06, 2008

    ahhh i was good but so fast and i couldnt get it properly.

  4. BlackMoon Development » Fantasy illustration in Gimp - tutorial Oct 20, 2008

    [...] For cutting out the hair – we can use the technique described here. [...]

  5. Chitu Feb 01, 2009

    This is just what I’m looking for, but being new to the GIMP, it was too fast, and I couldn’t follow all the steps. Could you please post a step-by-step written explanation?

  6. Robert Feb 02, 2009

    Hi Chitu – please check http://blackmoondev.com/gimp-tutorial-advanced-photo-separation/ for detailed description. Cheers

  7. Aldi May 18, 2009

    Great! I have been looking for a decent image masking for hairs and found a great one here! Thanks!

  8. Tex Jul 14, 2009

    Awesome tutorials but you are way too fast. You could also do with a step by step explanation.
    The detailed description you gave is not as it is “detailed”.
    A step by step with screenshots will go a long way to help lots of people.
    Brilliant technique you got though.

  9. maynan Nov 01, 2009

    Hi, I have tried to follow your step-by-step written instructions but I got stuck in that part -

    “We go back to the orginal layer and choose Add Layer Mask option from right-click menu. We copy the black&white layer to the layer mask.”

    I saw your video tutorial but the resolution is very small I cant hardly see the clicks of commands wou were using, and the high-resolution version of the tutorial is not found.

    I really can use this tutorial very much. I would really appreiciates it if you can help me.

    Thanks very much.

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