How to Cut Out Part of an Image in GIMP
There are many uses of cutting out portions of an image, one of them is to remove the background and probably replacing it with a plain background color, others want to add the cut out to another image, the needs vary and the list goes on.
I'll be showing you the exact steps on cutting out a specific portion of an image and saving it to another image file. This is using the freeware photo editor GIMP.
So here is the original image, and let's say I would like to cut out the car from the whole image:
Open the file in GIMP, click on Layer-Transparency-Add Alpha Channel.
Now, select the Lasso or Free Select Tool
. You can now trace the shape you want to cut out, return to the starting point of your tracing to complete the selection.
Click on Select-Invert then press CTRL-X to cut out the selected area. This is how the cut out area will look:
You can now use the cut out image however you want.
I'll be showing you the exact steps on cutting out a specific portion of an image and saving it to another image file. This is using the freeware photo editor GIMP.
So here is the original image, and let's say I would like to cut out the car from the whole image:
Open the file in GIMP, click on Layer-Transparency-Add Alpha Channel.
Now, select the Lasso or Free Select Tool
. You can now trace the shape you want to cut out, return to the starting point of your tracing to complete the selection.
Click on Select-Invert then press CTRL-X to cut out the selected area. This is how the cut out area will look:
You can now use the cut out image however you want.
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