Use GIMP's AI Technology To Remove Backgrounds Easily

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

This isn't AI selection. This is just tracing around the image which takes an extremely long time

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Thanks for the tip on the Feathering Radius.

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

useful, thanks man!

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

LEGEND! Thank you!!!

Quality friend thank you.

Very helpful!!! Thanks!

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

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

Link for the gimp version being use😅

thank you!

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