Use GIMP's AI Technology To Remove Backgrounds Easily

[@derlinux-mann229]

I've been using Gimp since 1.6. Even if it sounds nice that AI is suddenly everywhere, it is purely marketing. The magnetic scissors are not AI powered. It is one of the oldest tools in Gimp. There is no AI in the Heal Selection and Transparency Selection plugins released from 2002. These are pixel-dependent algorithms and are therefore veeery far from AI. Even if Adobe claims the Content-Aware Fill feature uses AI, unfortunately that's just marketing, because the feature is based on the Gimp plugins

[@julianmahler2388]

@@Reggieeeeeeee322There is no object recognition, the software doesn't "think", doesn't really see any patterns, if you try to select a car that doesn't happen to be a black car in front of a white background, it will usually include parts of the background that are clearly not a car because it doesn't have any clue what a car is or looks like, so it can't decide where the car stops and the background begins. It will just make simple decisions based on color and not on pattern or object recognition. AI powered software does a much better job, just look what a modern smartphone can do. Just open a picture, tap on the car, 90% of the time it will recognize the car and do a fantastic job deleting the background, even if the background is a lot more abstract than in the video. Takes 2 seconds.

[@TheREALDocRabbit]

Exactly, it' just an algorithm-based selection tool, and often too jittery vs painting the mask yourself. Also, he really should show correct path selection method, his points should be on valleys and peaks, allowing for using both node points to be used to create sharp corners.

[@nightwintertooth9502]

Fuzzy select in compose or hsl luminance / hsl Value Selection mode (depending on background) with micro adjustments to Threshold and Fearher Selection can do it a lot quicker on plain backgrounds. It won't be exactly what you want so use the boolean selection tools to adjust badly selected regions and you'll discover a method that can do this very quickly. Fuzzy Select's Feather Selection is great to preserve hair strands. The idea is to select the majory of the image that you want and THEN use boolean subtract / add Selection options with the tool mentioned here to fix the issues. Fuzzy select in combination with smart scissors can get a lot done very quickly

[@scottonanski4173]

What do you mean "in compose"?

[@ikemkrueger]

I wanna see a video of it in action.

[@bryleciel]

How the fuck is that AI technology if you manually have to draw a contour of a person?? I can do the same thing in MS paint

[@manuellabor2759]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@macedonianetymology4069]

This moron is wasting our time...

[@KaylansDrone]

Well wait a minute. You're manually clicking anchor points, but GIMP is using an apparent "Intelligence" to draw the lines between them that magically follow the contour between those points. All Without having to actually draw the entire line. Maybe not AI, but i seriously doubt MS paint would be as similar. At least without any similar features.

[@SuperMelon2008]

yup, same here. I'm hearing guy saying "yes, it DOES magical AI tool, yes it does, oh yes, just wait and see" and I'm instantly getting BS alert.

[@LususSaule]

@@KaylansDrone You said it yourself. Its not AI, so the video has a misleading title. Its also denegrades the channel which is a very stupid thing to do considering all the other channels that do Gimp tutorials much better and more honestly.

[@deadlyrobot5179]

It's funny how every software and website company for showcasing their background removal tools use an image that has its background and foreground in opposite colors and the background is totally empty. If you're trying to impress me, do it with a picture that is complicated.

[@GIMPTUT]

Great observation! There's a reason why I and others don't use "complicated" backgrounds... it requires editing software that is capable of such feats. Which is to say... NOT GIMP! I use Photoshop for "complicated" backgrounds, just say'n.

[@jimking81]

Because the main concept and steps are always the same. You need to zoom-in and go around the edges. No "magic" here

[@JasonEllingsworth]

@@jimking81 Did you not notice the selection line moving automatically to the pixels? That is what is awesome here. You won't find a tool that does everything for you, without using some of your skill or brain....so basically you have no future in using image manipulation software.

[@JasonEllingsworth]

@@jimking81 i can see why someone like you would be proud of that.

[@funnyberries4017]

@@GIMPTUT I'm just cracking up so hard about your attitude. hahahahaha you've used GIMP enough to the point where you hate it. It's great because most normal people hate gimp too.

[@butchgo6130]

Even with a not-so-complex background, it's quite a long way of doing things but it's doable just like the older versions of Photoshop.

[@giuliobuccini208]

Fuzzy selectiion tool with an "high" thresold works for me too. I just add and add pixels in an "incremental" way (holding the shift key, IIRC) and the selected area expands every time and surrounds almost perfectly the area of interest because of different color or contrast. Then simply invert selection with CTRL-I

[@edoardomancini180]

My ctrl x doesn’t work when I use fuzzy

[@giuliobuccini208]

@@edoardomancini180 strange... I usually copy the inverted selection (CTRL-C) and then I paste it as new layer (see the Edit menu). Then I delete the old layer, or I simply hide it.

[@coisasnatv]

After free AI tools available today, none of this make sense anymore. I grew up doing curses in Photoshop 4.0, taking hours to do things like these and now with one click and no skill at all, the background is gone, the photo is color corrected, so on and so forth.

[@moviecast13]

whats the AI called?

[@Mettinkm]

​@@moviecast13exactly 💯 👏 😅, Nothing AI 😂

[@zKoruja]

Yeah, it’s scary as hell. I’ve been facing some anxiety and depression because of how fast these things are moving. I mean, they are great, but the more people know about it, the more they’ll trash my job saying things like “it’s so easy, what makes you better?”. Like people always thought that designers job is easy, but now it’s way more frequent

[@Ravitz18]

​@@zKoruja Don't be afraid, even though AI is increasingly advanced, it is never perfect, the work of a human Designer will still be necessary for several things, Even if I ask an AI to make art for me, only a human will be able to capture the real essence and meaning of my request, only a human will be able to perfectly reproduce the image that I want. I see AI more as a support and a "third" hand for a Designer (or any other type of work) than a replacement. Even a simple job like removing a background, AI can't does it perfectly, needing someone to correct the mistakes they make when carrying out this process.

[@zKoruja]

@@Ravitz18 I hope you are right! 🙏

[@mikeg4172]

I knew it was too good to be true. Firstly, like the other member asked: how is this AI related? Photoshop has been doing this for over 20 years. Cutting out an image means doing it so precise that your audience viewing it can't tell that it was cut out. I saw jagged lines, not precision. And the fact that an almost solid background color was used, I would have expected more precision. I've been using Photoshop for 25 years and I've learned dozens of tricks to cutting people out the correct way, that includes lighting direction and manipulation, and true shadow creation. And I still struggle today to speed up a process that takes hours and hours to do correctly. And I'm still learning new ways of pulling it off, and I've done just that. The magic won tool in PS can do what you just did by playing with tolerance sensitivity levels. Gimp does not have native AI capability at this time. maybe via a plugin, but not at the base level.

[@bornathepicek]

Why in the world would you recommend a crucial step of feather edges at the end?? That should be noted at the beginning....

[@johnghostwriterbr]

It's an AI so smart and easy to use that it takes you 10 minutes just to make a nice selection.

[@KingFearless]

2:10 it's difficult to use it if we don't know how to use it 🤔... Got it! 😄👍

[@ss4kaioken295]

That scissors tool leaves artifacts from the background a lot though you really have to work at it

[@wilsonicsnet]

Excellent tutorial, the logic that's built in to the tool is great. Not really "AI" as you would think about AI normally, just some logic in the tool. Great timesaver.

[@karlbrodowsky7744]

I need something like that very often and it will help me a lot. Thank you. :-)

[@emadla12]

I love your Vedios they are wonderful and easy to underestand

[@rumghost]

After selecting the anchor points and adjusting the feathering, its not stated how to remove the background.

[@BelamarEutravos]

ctrl c, ctrl v, new layer

[@NiñoPaulPaguila]

Link for the gimp version being use😅

[@DemetriaDixon]

Ai keeps adding graphics to my mockups. Do you have a vid about hhow to remove or replace them.

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

Why do you put the handle back with the Path tool. It seems to be an unnecessary operation as long as the curve and last node follows the edge? I am a beginner with Gimp, so my question is motivated by my initial attempts.

[@wolfenstein6676]

Has anyone got an answer for this problem I'm experiencing with "GIMP 2.10"? I use the "free select" tool and highlight some areas on my image, I then fill those areas with a colour and I now want to change the mode of that colour fill to something such as "hard light" or "multiply" etc., but I don't know how. In "GIMP 2.8" it was straightforward, but not anymore.

[@John3_16_]

Thank you for this!!!

[@squeezleprime308]

Thanks for the tip on the Feathering Radius.

[@burtpanzer]

Wondershare's background removal tool knows where the background is and just removes it automatically.

[@sdlcman1]

I did not know until recently that the lowly Paint program that comes standard with Windows has a background removal tool and it works really well. Nothing in GIMP works well unless there is a lot of difference in the subject and the background. Otherwise, forget about it.

[@petergudden]

Isn't "Fuzzy Select" a much quicker tool? And possibly even more inteligent?

[@FASIGMAN]

Quality friend thank you.

[@tracytryan]

how do you remove the background once it has been selected, and then place a new background?

[@mightyblowfish]

It makes a change from the Foreground select Tool and Selection to Path. Thanks.

[@archangel_one]

67 hours later and you're done people! It's that simple!😏

[@uncleoky]

This is something similar to "Magnetic Lasso Tool" of Photoshop and has been used for ages. So not a magic i guess. You didn't even remove the background at the end. While talking about the threshold, why didn't you just decide the threshold for the whole path instead you draw another path? And after that you didn't finish the final product. OMG your brain is really working in an other way!

[@ZsOtherBrother]

Nice video on the scissors tool, thank you for sharing. If I may add two (small) suggestions, (...these are only my personal opinions and preferences of course, if you find them helpful great, if not feel free to ignore them :)) First, for a better learning process, a presentation should show how to use the tool with steps in the correct order, and without making mistakes, e.g.- setting the feathering option correctly from the beginning... because that detail should be noticed in the beginning, (and adjusted if so required) every time we use that tool. The order of a presentation is important to how most people remember and use what they've learned, and viewing the first step first is better than waiting to the last couple of minutes of a 12 minute video to see how to avoid a mistake that should never have happened, (but sometimes does:/). This is in contrast to the "discovery" method, which is how children and self taught people learn... but most of us are spoiled, and we're here for a shortcut, or we wouldn't be watching how-to videos, right? And second, as others have already mentioned, there are faster/easier ways to remove plain backgrounds, so maybe you can find and present an example where using this tool is better than using other tools. Thanks again. 👍

[@tigerenmars]

It works when there are such large contrasts, in the cases where I have tried the tool, it has completely failed...

[@Sooz3112]

I right mouse click on my image file and there's an option to remove the background - it's literally done in seconds, automatically x

[@pepelefrog1121]

Are you that guy from American Psycho, mate? The one that killed Patrick's business card.

[@eneacreativedesign]

Very helpful, thanks!

[@johnrobinson1020]

This selection tool is difficult to control and it has a mind of its own and is unpredictable.

[@moseslocke2084]

But, how do you remove the background?

[@MUZZIMAGES-g1s]

How do you remove background from a complex photo. Example. Someone having a shower. But you only want to keep the person and the droplets? Nothing else. I've tried many things and nothing works?

[@brandonazoo]

And then what? How do you actually remove the background? So basically - paths tool, invert, delete - should be a 20 second video max. Thanks

[@jutawan2023]

useful, thanks man!

[@jzilla1234]

I spent 2 hours looking for the "pass tour" before I realised it was a lisp

[@casual257]

In top menu Tools /Sellection Tools , it's still called intelligent scissors ✂ ✂

[@dwijgurram5490]

This is indeed ai selection. To manually draw contours it would have taken tons of time.

[@benjiman7]

LEGEND! Thank you!!!

[@sastraali5754]

U just have to use pyton code on python-fu to do that in gimp

[@Joker-ge5wm]

Thank you for excellently explaining how to use this tool. Since moment one, for more complex background my go to was paths tool, but not anymore :) I've had so much fun watching this video. *automagically* - genius idea... and here I am, ten minutes after, still laughing :D

[@MrArmysarge]

Wow some nice AI tech right there..... **sarcastic**

[@1976ClassicCelica]

Ok either you missed explaining something or I'm just not getting it. My trace is very jagged and not like yours.

[@JasperJax]

I hate your videos lol. I'm using these tools but still have zero idea what to press to actually delete the selected area.

[@kipp0man]

Exactly! I'm a complete newbie to GIMP and after I diligently selected the area, closed the loop, pressed 'Enter' .... now what ?? 🤔

[@JasonEllingsworth]

@@kipp0man how do both of you not know what to do after you have made a selection? What you are wanting to know, would come from an absolute beginners video, which you should have watched before learning the details of a specific tool.

[@kipp0man]

@@JasonEllingsworth Thanks Jason, that was very helpful (sarcasm!). I think you answered your own question there - "how do both of you not know what to do"? The reason why I jumped to the video was to find a shortcut to a specific task, I have no desire to learn how to use GIMP, as I won't be using it much. NOTE: "GIMP 2.10 For Beginners {10+ Hours of Tutorials}"

[@JasonEllingsworth]

@kipp0man stop whining and take the time to learn the very basics before complaining.

[@kipp0man]

@@JasonEllingsworth Haha .. Irony!! 😂😂😂

[@mpakirk]

This is my 1st attempt at GIMP. Did I miss something? I used the AI scissors traced everything out as shown. Hit enter, the path changed to blinking black and white line and......now what??? background still there.

[@JasonEllingsworth]

apparently you need to watch a basic image editing video first. It should be obvious to you, what you would do after getting your selection.

[@drav3nat0r]

Yea not really AI if you have to still sit and click along an edge for hours

[@jimking81]

I don't see anything "intelligent" or faster here from what we already know. You still need to zoom in and go around the edges no matter what tool you want to use. 12:00 of pointless showcase...

[@JasonEllingsworth]

It is pretty obvious that this tool can do a lot more than the typical method of pathing around an object using points and curve handles. Certainly not a pointless showcase. This comment just makes you look like an idiot.

[@Twobarpsi]

Excellent!

[@Nahsh5ba]

I can remove background in Photoshop in one click without all that. The author was fucking with selecting the contour of a person and didn't remove the background because the selection alone took the whole video timeline. AI? Don't think so. It's not enough to simply select the contour of a person, invert the selection and remove the background. There's lighting & shadow issues, hair, etc. All edges of the person must be smooth to properly separate it from the background. All these aspects of background removal are handled by Photoshop in one click without even having to select the contour of the person.

[@jackcollazo]

Excellent tutorial. Thank you!

[@joe-5D]

gimp wont let me undo a scissor point??

[@kensleylewis]

no it will let you undo a scissor point. But once you hit enter, you can't go back to your scissor points.

[@amateur87]

This is click bait, you didn't use AI

[@squarerootof2]

That's why it's called artificial, lol. Because it's not real.

[@mienislav]

@@squarerootof2 I am studying a Bachelor program where most content is related to AI topics. I am already writing an engineer thesis about applying image segmentation models for real-life problems, so let me show my point. 98% of heuristic algorithms are not AI-based. Most AI algorithms are these based on ML/DL models. If the author shows AI for graphics, he should mention something about intelligent tools which after one click could select the whole desired region. This one is already solved. The key is applying image segmentation. The only input besides the whole image is just one or a couple of points. Then the result of the model is a multidimensional mask where each dimension shows a likelihood whether the pixel belongs to the specified region or not. Because here we have two classes: belongs to the object and doesn't belong, two classes are enough, so it is just a 2D mask. Then each point which value is above the specified threshold is considered to belong to the object, so it is the object we want to select. That's it. The problem is there is no model for this task which executes in less than 1 second with very high accuracy which does not require a NASA supercomputer. However, there are already models which might perform this task in around 3 seconds on average daily driver (like MobileSAM, FastSAM), but the licences permit the usage only on projects with the same licensing conditions. But yes, there is an option to apply something which we could call it AI, but in this video it's not AI, it's just clickbait. It's just based on simple gradient operations (pure math), and what's more: very annoying and time-demanding to use.

[@thegreatujo]

Never used GIMP and this was the first video I watched about the software because I kept hearing about it as a 'Photoshop' alternative. Very bad idea to watch this, I'll be honest, coming from Photoshop 2023. I can literally do a cloud-based Select Subject that now works superbly on some of the most complicated backgrounds that'll take about 3 seconds to do what would manually require at least half an hour. Calling that scissors thing "AI" is just like calling the Magnetic Lasso or MAgic Wand in PS "AI". You perhaps need to revise your info about machine learning.

[@Reggieeeeeeee322]

lol he was being "tongue-and-cheek". and this is not that serious, don't be so uptight

[@esphilee]

GIMP is very different from Photoshop. There are things that you can do better in GIMP, there are others that is easier in Photoshop. That said, lately photoshop has a lot of new tools that take it far ahead of GIMP.

[@parvesh-rana]

Please drop shadow video

[@johnrobinson1020]

There are free background removal AI websites that will do this in a few seconds.

[@moviecast13]

can you tell me the name of it please?

[@venivididilexi2598]

thank you!

[@twsbibanghorn7343]

Less gabbin' more showing 😊

[@Deezter16]

Has nothing to do with AI

[@Heathfloors]

Thumbs down.... Not what it says on the tin... painstakingly standard way to remove a background.. not Ai

[@mienislav]

TL;DR: What's presented in the video is not AI, it's just the heuristic algorithm based on gradient operations. Stop clickbaits! Photoshop has it implemented better. You have true image segmentation model which is underneath the Object Selection Tool. You just need to click one point and in 95% it selects every pixel belonging to the region extracted from ML model. Sometimes you must do small modifications in the selection, however it significantly simplifies the preprocessing part. What would truly be considered AI is already created as a plugin for GIMP called "GIMP-ML".

[@janvanheerden265]

Dont you have a magic wand tool? One click and the entire imge is selected This method is cumbersome It dates back to early photoshop edition. I want to change from photoshop but this is not an encouragement

[@puppy_BYTE]

title is very misleading..., not AI

[@joelsanchesjunior7793]

Sorry, I didn't find the image

[@GIMPTUT]

I can't find the original photo but here is a similar one; www.pexels.com/photo/strict-female-teacher-with-book-pointing-at-scribbled-blackboard-3771074/

[@karli34]

Clickbait! This is very old-school manual background extraction and has nothing to do with AI.

[@thehelloandroid]

thank you for this tutorial

[@JulesMoyaert_photo]

😍💛👍👍👍

[@tartarusdivision1054]

dank

[@admiraledgeseawolves1833]

Unless this tool has been updated a whole lot the last time I tried this it did a crappy job.

[@yusufdavid2256]

This is AI??????? 🤦 And they say GIMP is Photoshop's main competitor. They must be joking.

[@squarerootof2]

You just don't have a sense of humour.

[@sergeykoshelev4566]

Face palm...

[@kakhak]

Are you joking, awkward man? What is this? Is that Ai and proper background removing? This video should be removed from YT.

[@GIMPTUT]

Are you joking? Bullies like you should be removed from KZbin.

[@ThatOneAnimationGuy]

@@GIMPTUTyour the best don’t listen to him he must be 4 years old

[@larapaulyn1488]

this... this is not AI and photoshop's magnetic lasso tool does a better job. and here's me trying to find an alternative for PS... sighs

[@GustavoM.D.]

This is more most scam / snake oil video about GIMP I've seen until now.

[@Redhottopic1]

Nah takes to long

[@ForexTrading-e3b]

This has nothing to do with AI. It's a pure waste of 12 minutes of the viewer's time. Please change the title

[@CLOCKROOK]

D

[@Othis-Morf]

Takes far to long, bro. That's not AI tech.

[@the8ctagon]

AI my arse. This is horrible clickbait. Your should be ashamed of yourself.

[@kilcitykitty]

THATS NOT AI LOL you just gave me a reason NOT to use this program, ty

[@hotfootrabbit]

Wow what a waste of time. This is NOT AI Background Removal.

[@সিয়ামক্রাফট]

Thanks a lot sir, I would like to invite you to accept Islam it is the best religion.

[@squarerootof2]

No doubt, it's one of my favourites too.

[@capmicrostore]

it's not professional at all, thank you for wasting my time, this is not what i expected from the video title

[@dimanshulgin]

GIMP использует технологию искусственного интеллекта для отделения предмета от фона, поправочка не искусственного, а естественного, естественного интеллекта человека, художника. А видео не что иное как Scam, с целью набрать побольше лайков, до конца видео надеялся, что мошенник - автор ролика скажет, а теперь если в настройках разрешить ИИ самостоятельно определить контур объекта, то достаточно грубо указать область где находится требуемый объект и Оппа, ИИ сам вырезает его. А так там ИИ приблизительно 0%, а вырезает предмет по контуру скорее всего при помощи матрицы Собеля-Фельдмана и с последующей интерполяцией ломаной кривой.

[@larryerb]

Totally out dated garbage

[@Tyrannocaster]

This just embarrasing.

[@charlesjohnston1506]

Very helpful!!! Thanks!