Now move to the next method, so for that again, I will take a new image. Now got to the Select menu and click on the None option for disabling selection around the object, and you will have your object ready. Press the delete button for removing the background.

Now go to the layer panel and make right-click on this layer, then click on Add Alpha channel option for transparent background. Release the click, and your selection is ready. You can see your selection by magenta color. Now make click on the background of your image and drag the mouse around the background for making a proper selection of background. The next method is by using the Select by Color tool.Įnable antialiasing, draw mask and feather option of this tool in the parameters’ section. Now let us have another image for learning about the next method. Now press the delete button for deleting the background. Now release the click, and your selection is ready and for having a transparent background, make right-click on this layer in the layer panel and click on Add Alpha channel option. The very first way is by using the Fuzzy Select tool. For removing background, we have to make a selection around our main object, and for making a selection, we have a number of tools and ways in GIMP. You just have to choose the right method for removing the background of any image according to the features of that image. Removing background in GIMP is not a very difficult task. In this topic, we are going to learn about GIMP remove background.

So let us find out which method will suit which image. The use of the different method of removing background depends on the properties of an image, such as color contrast of an image, detailing of an object and many more things. We will use the Fuzzy Select tool, Paths tool, Select by Color tool, and also by adding the Mask layer to the original layer. In GIMP, we can do it in many ways by using different tools and features it. You can understand it by deleting the unwanted background of any image for using its main object in other place or with other references. Remove Background is not a new word for us.

Inkscape crop out background