BlackMoon Design
Oct 1

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.

Before:
Before

After
After

You can download higher resolution video for that tutorial here.


  1. Mirco
    October 1, 2008

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


  2. yonason
    October 3, 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
    October 6, 2008

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


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

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


  5. Chitu
    February 1, 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
    February 2, 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!


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