Gimp magic lasso
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Now come on your original flower layer and copy your selection. Now click on the Create new layer button.Ĭhoose Transparency as fill for this layer in this dialog box and hit ok. This yellow line indicates the canvas area of the image. You can identify it by having yellow dotted lines around the background of the image. Now you can notices selection become around the flower. So go to the Select menu and click on the Invert option of scroll down list. Now invert this selection for making selection around this flower. This selection is on background because we click on the background. Now let us cut this flower from the image. You can see this selection is very good at this threshold value. The threshold value for proper selection changes with every image. So check the value on which you have a proper selection like this. Now decrease the value of the threshold and again make a selection, and you will notice selection has been changed by changing the value of the threshold. During selection, we have to choose the right value of the threshold for proper selection.įor example, increase the value of the threshold and make a click on the background of this flower image, and you will have this type of selection. The threshold is a very important parameter of this tool. It will highlight with a magenta color like this.Īnd once you release it, click it to make your selection around the chosen area. If you want to see the selection area before clicking on that area, then enable the Draw mask option.Īnd just make a click on your desired area and hold the click to see the selection area. You can make multiple clicks for this purpose. Just make a click on the unwanted selection. This helps in the removal of that selection which is unwanted for you. Next is Subtract from the current selection.
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We use this mode generally for the selection process. So it will continue adding each new selection with the previous selection. Here you will find new selection adds with the previous one. Now again, select an area on a flower like this.Īnd make another click for making a selection.
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The next mode is to Add to the current selection. So with this option for each new selection previous selection will delete automatically. Now click on another area, and you will notice the previous selection will delete itself. I will click on the petal of these flowers and have this selection. We have four modes in the selection, and the first one is to replace the current selection.Įnable this option and make click on the desired area of your image. Now let us understand every important parameter of this tool which are present in the parameters box.