Today I have two videos made by viewers of “Meet the Gimp!”.

Torsten Kunkel made a video about the image on the left side. He had two passport images of a person taken 40 years apart. One with age 17, the other now. And he combined them in one image, showing what changes and what stays constant.

I added some tips about an easier way to paint the dividing line and about ways to further improve this image.

Michael Schönitzer sent in the scond video. He shows how to fit a selection around an object on a uniform background. Of course I had to try it too.

You’ll her a lot of rumbling noises. I have new microphone stands and forgot to isolate them acoustically from the desktop. Too much clutter…. Sorry.

You can find the files used by Torsten here on the Download Page.

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Tags: layers, selections
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Selections are widely used in Gimp. Select something to work only on that, to cut or copy it, to move it around.

In this show I cover the “fuzzy select tool”, the “select by colour tool”, the “intelligent scissors” and the “foreground select tool”.

I hope you had not too much trouble with the feed change…

The TOC

00:23 Welcome
00:32 Meet The Gimp web-site
03:45 Fuzzy Select Tool
06:15 – threshold
08:40 – changing threshold dynamically
10:00 – selecting by hue
11:55 Colour select tool
12:40 Intelligent Scissors
16:45 Foreground select tool
21:00 The Feed
22:39 The End
TOC made by paynekj

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Selections are widely used in Gimp. Select something to work only on that, to cut or copy it, to move it around…..

In this video I cover the basics of selections, the usage of the rectangle, elipse and free hand selection tool with all their options, the different selection modes (replacing, adding, substracting and intersecting) and the different keyboard shortcuts you can use. Yes, there is a difference between first pressing shift and then the mouse or the other way around.

Finally I show you how to work with the Quickmask to make finetunings to your selection and how to save a selection for later use in a channel.

The TOC

00:23 Welcome
00:32 Focus Ring podcast
01:11 Meet The Gimp Blog
03:15 Gimp.org documentation
04:45 What is a selection?
05:58 Removing a selection
06:20 Selection options
06:35 – replacing the selection
06:52 – add to selection
08:10 – subtract from selection
09:05 – intersect with current selection
10:00 – using keyboard modifiers for selection mode
11:52 – feathered edges
14:20 – rounded corners
17:20 – expand from centre
19:30 – fixed aspect ratio
20:57 – highlight
21:17 – fixed size and position
22:22 Guides
25:45 Free Select Tool
27:55 Quick mask
33:23 Hello Poland and Norway
35:14 The End
TOC made by paynekj

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Tags: beginner, channel, elipse, free hand, quickmask, rectangle, selection tools, selections
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