Select theFuzzy Select Toolin your Toolbox.
The icon resembles amagic wand.
Click in the solid space that you want to delete from the image.
Did it get everything?
Thats what theThresholdsetting is for.
Turn your attention to the lower-left corner of the screen.
Thats where your tool options are.
This option allows you to adjust how far off the clicked color you want to grab with the tool.
So, increasing theThresholdgrabs more similar colors, and decreasing it restricts the colors selected.
If you grabbed too much and highlighted areas within the foreground, decrease theThresholdnumber.
With the entire background selected, press theDeletekey to eliminate the background.
That should allow you to remove the background.
As long as theresenough distinction in color between your foreground and background, this can be a solid option.
Select theScissors Select Toolfrom your toolbox.
Its icon is apair of scissors.
Start clicking around the edges of the image foreground.
give a shot to stay directly on the edges and keep your points reasonably close.
Click all the way back around your image, and then click your first point to finish.
After youve connected back to your first point, click somewhere inside the foreground area you just closed off.
This will convert it to a selection.
To delete the background of the current image, choose theSelectmenu.
Now, find and selectInvertto select all of the area outside of your foreground.
Press theDeletekey to remove the background.
With the background removed, you should see transparency around the foreground.
The Foreground Select Tool
The Foreground Select Tool is fairly similar to the Scissors Select Tool.
Select theForeground Select Tool.
It has aportrait icon.
Click down, and while holding the left click, draw a path around the borders of the foreground.
give a shot to keep as much of the background out as possible.
Loop all the way around, and connect back to where you started.
At the end, you should see a line enclosing your foreground.
PressEnterto begin selecting the foreground.
As soon as you hitEnter, you should see the image turn blue.
Click and hold to draw a line through the foreground.
venture to zig-zag and select every color in the foreground of the image.
GIMP will use these color values to determine the difference between the foreground and background.
After youve collected all the foreground colors, pressEnteragain to preview your selection.
The foreground will lighten up, and only background parts will be blue.
If youre happy with what you have, pressSelectin the small Foreground Select window.
Your foreground will now be selected.
To delete the background, choose theSelectmenu.
Use theDeletekey to remove the background.
With the background gone, you should have the foreground of the image against a transparent background.
There are multiple ways to eliminate the background from an image using the popularPhotoshopalternative,GIMP.
Each has its strengths and weaknesses, meaning that you should choose the options that best fit your situation.
None of these methods are complicated to use, but some can be tedious and time-consuming.
