I am not a graphics person. Also can't afford to hire one. Trying to follow instructions at https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tutorial-quickie-separate.html I use the "intelligent scissors" just like they say, spend quite a bit of effort doing so. Then click the foreground select tool - just like they say - and suddenly everything I did with the intelligent tool is undone. WTF? Does anyone know of an actual GIMP tutorial for removing background that doesn't cause me to throw a damn brick through my monitor? Photoshop makes it easy, but clearly GIMP developers have a completely different philosophy on how a graphics tool should work and I can't figure out what their philosophy is.
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net> wrote:> Does anyone know of an actual GIMP tutorial for removing backgroundUse the intelligent scissors as you did. Right click inside the section and choose copy. Right click anywhere and choose Edit -> Paste As -> As New Image. This should get you off to a good start. Here is a link to GIMP communities who can better assist you learn the GIMP way and would love to here your input on the UI as well. I am not a graphics person either but this method has been the simplest https://www.gimp.org/links/#clubs -- Fred
I saw Fred's later reply and am glad someone knew how to do it. I feel your pain, the gimp documentation isn't always the best. If you aren't already aware, when your work is suddenly undone, remember that Ctrl-Z (UnDo) is your friend. I found that I had to look for gimp tutorials on the web wherever I could and use the one that worked (as you discovered - not all do). And then there were cases where, like you did, posting on a forum produced far better results than hours of web search. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alice Wonder" <alice at domblogger.net> To: "centos" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 11:42:01 AM Subject: [CentOS] Extreme frustration with GIMP I am not a graphics person. Also can't afford to hire one. Trying to follow instructions at https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tutorial-quickie-separate.html I use the "intelligent scissors" just like they say, spend quite a bit of effort doing so. Then click the foreground select tool - just like they say - and suddenly everything I did with the intelligent tool is undone. WTF? Does anyone know of an actual GIMP tutorial for removing background that doesn't cause me to throw a damn brick through my monitor? Photoshop makes it easy, but clearly GIMP developers have a completely different philosophy on how a graphics tool should work and I can't figure out what their philosophy is. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Alice Wonder wrote:> I am not a graphics person. Also can't afford to hire one. > > Trying to follow instructions at > https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tutorial-quickie-separate.html > > I use the "intelligent scissors" just like they say, spend quite a bit > of effort doing so. > > Then click the foreground select tool - just like they say - and > suddenly everything I did with the intelligent tool is undone. > > WTF? > > Does anyone know of an actual GIMP tutorial for removing background that > doesn't cause me to throw a damn brick through my monitor?<snip> Don't do that, does nasty things to a budget. Don't know a tutorial, either, and their tools do operate in an, um, interesting manner. That being said... I dunno if I've used the intelligent scissors tool, but I'd expect to use a select tool, *then* a scissors. Feel free to talk or rant to me offlist.
Well, I mis-spoke, Ctrl-Z can undo some things, not others. Sorry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leroy Tennison" <leroy at datavoiceint.com> To: "centos" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 12:38:17 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Extreme frustration with GIMP I saw Fred's later reply and am glad someone knew how to do it. I feel your pain, the gimp documentation isn't always the best. If you aren't already aware, when your work is suddenly undone, remember that Ctrl-Z (UnDo) is your friend. I found that I had to look for gimp tutorials on the web wherever I could and use the one that worked (as you discovered - not all do). And then there were cases where, like you did, posting on a forum produced far better results than hours of web search. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alice Wonder" <alice at domblogger.net> To: "centos" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 11:42:01 AM Subject: [CentOS] Extreme frustration with GIMP I am not a graphics person. Also can't afford to hire one. Trying to follow instructions at https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tutorial-quickie-separate.html I use the "intelligent scissors" just like they say, spend quite a bit of effort doing so. Then click the foreground select tool - just like they say - and suddenly everything I did with the intelligent tool is undone. WTF? Does anyone know of an actual GIMP tutorial for removing background that doesn't cause me to throw a damn brick through my monitor? Photoshop makes it easy, but clearly GIMP developers have a completely different philosophy on how a graphics tool should work and I can't figure out what their philosophy is. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos