Hello Steemit friends, today I come to show you how you can replace the background of an image where we go out, keep our png and the quality of our images, and many more things, using the Gimp application. To make it easy to learn for everyone, I have made an easy to follow step by step so that anyone can practice it at home. I hope you can join me and enjoy my content for the day.

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open source program for editing digital images in bitmap form, both drawings and photographs. It is part of the GNU project and is available under the GNU General Public License and GNU Lesser General Public License. It is also known for being perhaps the first great free application for non-professional or expert users Wikipedia, GIMP

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REPLACE THE BACKGROUND OF YOUR IMAGES WITH GIMP

(STEP BY STEP)

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Before starting this tutorial, you should go to download this application from its Web Site: https://www.gimp.org.

-- STEP 1--

In this first step, you will learn from opening the application to opening the image you want to edit and getting it ready to start.

1.1. Open the GIMP application

1.2. Select the image you want to edit

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-- Step 2 --

In this second step, you will learn how to extract or remove the background using the simple selection tool. You must border the part you want to extract or remove. When you have outlined the part of the image you want to extract or remove, you must "add the alpha channel" in the layers section, so that the background can be transparent, and you can use this image as a png. Then just hit clean or (ctrl + x) to cut that part (the background).

2.1. Select the area you want to extract or remove "example"

2.2. Add the alpha channel to have a transparent background

2.3. Clean or cut the selected area

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-- Step 3 --

In this third step you will learn how to insert the new image you have downloaded to replace the previous background. It's very simple, just insert the image, adjust the size of the real layer, bring the boy's png image to the front, and finally combine both layers to extract a perfect image.

3.1. Insert image as a new layer

3.2. Bring to the front the png image extracted from the previous one

3.3. Merge layers

Image ready and extracted

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As you can see it's a very easy procedure, it's all a matter of practice. Once you have colored, extracted the part of the image you want to have with another background, and you know how to insert the image as layers, the rest will be very simple, just insert another image for another background and that's it.

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Original image

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Thank you very much for coming and joining me in this new publication, I hope it has been useful, enjoyable, and that you get the best out of everything. Also, I hope you can get to know me a little better, and invite me to be part of your groups of friends and communities.