Submodule 11.1: Gimp file- Selection tools

Firstly, we open the image in our Gimp and save it as Gimp file.

The Crop tool

We want to select a smaller area of our image. To achieve that, we will use the Crop tool. We press Enter after completing our selection and we save the file.

The Free selection tool (Lasso)

Here we want to select only the girl. To do this we will use the  Free selection tool.

To zoom in or out we press + or -.

Note: The video doesn't show the whole process of the selection.

In this video the selection has been completed, we have selected the girl.

The next step is to close our selection. To achieve this we press Ctrl + click back to the first point of our selection.

To view the resulting selection we should add the tab "Selection editor". Then we can use the button "Inverse the selection" to see if the girl or the background is selected. Here, I select the background.

Make the image transparent

The steps to achieve this are:

• right click to add the alpha channel to the layer
• select the background and 
• delete it.

The checkerboard pattern is a visual way to show empty space it's like a transparent sheet where there was no paint.

When you make an image transparent is common that you notice that you may have forgotten some white spaces.

To improve the selection, we can add selection areas by clicking shift before add points.

You can find the file of the video at: courseGimp>xcfFiles>image2.xcf