A typical task in digital photo processing is background removal. So, by removing the background from the portrait, you can use it to print a photo for documents. A popular photo processing tool is Adobe Photoshop. However, the license for it is expensive. Therefore, it is unattractive for non-commercial use. But how to remove the background in a photo without Photoshop? Fortunately, there is free software that rivals the capabilities of Adobe Photoshop.
Necessary
Free freeware GIMP graphics editor
Instructions
Step 1
Open the image in the GIMP editor. Select "File" and "Open" from the application menu, or press the key combination Ctrl + O. In the file selection dialog, specify the medium and the directory in which it is located. Select the file in the listing of the current directory. Click the "Open" button.
Step 2
Highlight the background in the photo. Use the Rectangular Selection, Elliptical Selection, Free Selection, Adjacent Selection, Color Selection tools. You can also use switching to quick mask mode, then adjusting it with painting tools and switching to image editing mode.
Step 3
Remove the background from the photo. Press the Del key, or select Edit and Clear from the menu.
Step 4
Process the background additionally. After removing it, the image has transparent areas. If necessary, fill them with some color, or create a new background by placing the image on an additional layer.
Step 5
Save the image processing results. Select "File", "Save As" from the menu. In the save dialog, specify the save path and the format of the graphic file. Click the "Save" button.
