Removing background colors in portraits - Gimp tutorial

This is part of a 3 part tutorial, explaining how to remove the solid background color, from portrait pics, or cutouts.

to use on wallpapers, or, to use in conjunction with making storyboard pieces.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Mugen
• Tutorials
• Help
• FAQ
• Picture
• Portrait
• Storyboard

[DanteRydbergakesson]

Are GIMP and The GIMP Different?

[DarkValentine1984]

It's the same program

[ladylabret]

Can you make a tutorial about turning the background into grayscale and the foreground image colour? Does that make sense?

P.S. I like your voice :D

[DarkValentine1984]

though, wouldn't you just want to add gray as the color? Because that doesn't make sense. Unless you're referring to a stage.

Trying to do that with a sprite character wouldn't work, because the background color of a sprite, would be the masking color, Fighter Factory would need, to make himher appear on a stage properly in mugen.

[DMAGIC916]

may I ask if you canchange the file type of the gimp edit I have done? it only gives me .xcf.

[DarkValentine1984]

you have to type in the name of the extension. if you want the said file as .png, then you have to type it in when making a name for the file, when you're ready to save.

[AdamCartwrightILoveU]

do you have a tutorial on removing backgrounds that are not just one solid color? example ... say there is a person standing in front of a house & I just want the person not the house or anything else in the pictureis there away to make the background transparent?So in the end all I have is the person with a transparent background

[Noobsaibot135]

i did wat u did for my portrait of my mugen character, but everytime i select him, his portrait doesnt even show up, wat shuld i do?

[75bari]

i am so lost on this video.

[SpaceTec68]

Thank you very much! Subbed!

[DMAGIC916]

yeah thanks. I figured it out. I guess the the GIMP program that I have is a newer version so I had to click extract to save it as a different type.

[WizardofTacoma]

I need step by step Gimp Tutorials like this one without the Teacher going to fast making it complicated by not really thoroughly explain things. This one is not like some of the Gimp Tutorial that try to put 20min into 10. one of the BIG problem with some Gimp Tutorials there is no audio Voice and when there is, The video of the toolbox is so small, you can not see what is being clicking on. It can make it difficult to read some of the toolbar script. out of 5 stars I give this 4 stars

[ViolinSnowKid]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!!! In the storyboard video, I asked you to explain how to remove the color if the character had the same color, however, I didn't use common sense (change the color) but after a few tries, I got it down.

Once again, thank you and good luck with your future projects.