05-12-2017, 06:50 PM
Quote:According to my experience, these tools are pretty useless. Same with the G'MIC extract foreground filter.
I hardly ever use them.
It is a matter of use and as you say you hardly ever use them
For a quick and very reasonable foreground extract g'mic is useful. This from a couple of years ago, using g'mic. The default settings have changed since then, from single layer to 2 layers (FG/BG) but the basics are the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKSflRIaKIo about 5 minutes
Quote:Hopefully these tools will be improved in a future version of Gimp because from my experience the quick selection tool in Photoshop works really well.
Not everyone uses Photoshop.
Quote:For quick jobs i always use the lasso tool.
Sometimes a layermask works well, or a a channel as the base for a layermask.
For example with a blue sky, you can make use of the Hue and decompose the image.
In the end, you will get the best results with the paths tool and a layermask.
Again, it depends on the image which tool to use. A path, then path-to-selection will produce a very clean cut-out but can be very time consuming and for a beginner a real PITA.
However I usually end up with a layer mask since this is a non-destructive form of editing.
Some thoughts here: https://youtu.be/rOjClRu2sy0 about 5 minutes.