1 00:00:23 --> 00:00:24 Welcome to Meet The GIMP. 2 00:00:25 --> 00:00:30 My name is Rolf steinort and I am recording this is Bremen, Northen Germany. 3 00:00:31 --> 00:00:35 Today we'll talk about the Fuzzy Select Tool. 4 00:00:36 --> 00:00:39 It is closely related to the select by colour tool. 5 00:00:40 --> 00:00:53 But the fuzzy select tool selects only one contiguous region and the colour select tool selects all regions with similar colours. 6 00:00:54 --> 00:01:07 There are some similar options like Replace, Add, Substract and Intersect with the current selection, and now I select Replace. 7 00:01:08 --> 00:01:12 Here you can see the same option, Antialiasing. 8 00:01:13 --> 00:01:22 If we select antialiasing, border of the selection is not sharp and you get smooth corners. 9 00:01:23 --> 00:01:32 And if it is not selected then you have a really sharp border between selected and unselected. 10 00:01:33 --> 00:01:40 The further options are Feather Edges and Select Transparent Areas. 11 00:01:41 --> 00:01:49 Select Transparent Areas is useful while using mask sensor on perhaps. 12 00:01:50 --> 00:01:57 Sample merged is the same as with the other and it selects all the visible layers. 13 00:01:58 --> 00:02:03 If it is not selected then it works on current layer. 14 00:02:04 --> 00:02:10 If you want to select something from the total output of image then select this option. 15 00:02:11 --> 00:02:23 Here is Threshold which defines how much difference between the colours is allowed to be in the selection or when something is out of selection. 16 00:02:24 --> 00:02:29 It helps in selecting the pixels that have one definite colour. 17 00:02:30 --> 00:02:36 The next important selection is , which mode do you want to have in the selection. 18 00:02:37 --> 00:02:43 The composite mode is the gray value of added red, green and blue channels. 19 00:02:44 --> 00:02:55 You can select the red, the green, the blue channel or the Hue, Saturation or the Value channel as the base for your selection. 20 00:02:56 --> 00:03:00 Now lets try Fuzzy Select Tool. 21 00:03:01 --> 00:03:07 I just click into the image and the threshold is zero so lets see what happens. 22 00:03:08 --> 00:03:12 I make a selection which is one pixel in size. 23 00:03:13 --> 00:03:27 Now I increase the amount of Threshold to say 30 and click into the image and click on toggle quick mask here. 24 00:03:28 --> 00:03:36 Now you can see the area which is selected. 25 00:03:37 --> 00:03:48 I de-select the quick mask toggle, press tab to get the tool box and press Shift+Ctrl+A to unselect everything. 26 00:03:49 --> 00:04:02 I can do this in a different way and for that I decrease the threshold to zero and click into the image and now I am drawing the mouse down and right. 27 00:04:03 --> 00:04:12 When I increase the threshold, you can see that I am going into this blue area but I am still on the wall. 28 00:04:13 --> 00:04:21 I think this tool is more useful for graphic designers and not for photographers. 29 00:04:22 --> 00:04:25 You can change the threshold by just pulling the mouse. 30 00:04:26 --> 00:04:31 This works the same in colour selection tool. 31 00:04:32 --> 00:04:42 I change Select by from Composite to Hue and click at the same point and draw to the bottom. 32 00:04:43 --> 00:04:53 You can see that I have a way better selection of blue, green part of the wall, than I had before. 33 00:04:54 --> 00:05:04 So choosing the right method of colour definition gives good result with this tool. 34 00:05:05 --> 00:05:24 I click into the quick mask and here you see it’s nearly perfect, only some parts to repair and I would do that with painting in the quick mask and not with these selection tools. 35 00:05:25 --> 00:05:40 If you are confused about selecting the mode then you can see your image in different channels in the channel mode. 36 00:05:41 --> 00:05:49 Select the blue channel and you see that everything has nearly the same blue value. 37 00:05:50 --> 00:05:54 In the green channel there are some differences. 38 00:05:55 --> 00:05:58 In the red channel it’s nearly the same here. 39 00:05:59 --> 00:06:09 So I would select the green channel for selecting or in this case Hue channel. 40 00:06:10 --> 00:06:18 Selecting colour is the next tool here and it has the same function and same options here. 41 00:06:19 --> 00:06:21 It has only one difference. 42 00:06:22 --> 00:06:31 If you click here, you’ll select all fields with this colour and not one contiguous area. 43 00:06:32 --> 00:06:40 The colour selection tool, selects all the areas with the similiar colour. 44 00:06:41 --> 00:06:47 The name of the next tool is intelligent scissors or scissors selection tool. 45 00:06:48 --> 00:06:55 This algorithm looks for edges and tries to follow them with the selection. 46 00:06:56 --> 00:07:09 And I want to select here these letter boxes 47 00:07:10 --> 00:07:41 So I Active the selection tool and I pull a point here and I get a plus sign near the cursor and I simply select the points. 48 00:07:42 --> 00:07:55 The algorithm is suppose to follow the borders and you can see here it didn’t took the otherway,it took the inside way. 49 00:07:56 --> 00:08:12 I zoom into the image and now I can draw this point upto here and there was a mistake with selecting this point. 50 00:08:13 --> 00:08:29 So I pull these point up and you can see the algorithm follows the border if you give enough information where to follow. 51 00:08:30 --> 00:08:43 It looks pretty good but I usually don’t use this because there are better ways to do this. 52 00:08:44 --> 00:08:55 I think I would use the colour selection tool because it always takes the wrong way round. 53 00:08:56 --> 00:09:09 So I finished with the selection. 54 00:09:10 --> 00:09:16 I just click on the first point here and the cursor changes to plus. 55 00:09:17 --> 00:09:24 Now put the next point and I have these 2 rings making a loop out of it. 56 00:09:25 --> 00:09:32 I can still move the point around here and make the selection better. 57 00:09:33 --> 00:09:41 So,when I now click into the selection 2nd time, the selction is selected. 58 00:09:42 --> 00:09:56 And to look at the quality I activate the quick mask and zoom into it. 59 00:09:57 --> 00:10:03 Now I look around in the selection. 60 00:10:04 --> 00:10:09 Here is my fault, I should have clicked here. 61 00:10:10 --> 00:10:16 So this is the fairly intelligent scissors. 62 00:10:17 --> 00:10:23 The next and the last tool I want to cover today is the foreground selection tool. 63 00:10:24 --> 00:10:36 It was quite sensation when the algorithm came out sometime ago and it was not so sensational in using in the GIMP. 64 00:10:37 --> 00:10:40 But lets give it a try. 65 00:10:41 --> 00:10:47 Here are the same modes and antialiasing isn’t activatable. 66 00:10:48 --> 00:10:56 And here I want to select one single area and I want to select the statue. 67 00:10:57 --> 00:11:05 So 1st I zoom into the image, to get a better control. 68 00:11:06 --> 00:11:20 Now I select the selection tool and I can select contiguous region or different region but I select the contiguous region. 69 00:11:21 --> 00:11:43 First I make a rough selection here with the automatic laser tool and now you can see that the area which is not selected is in blue colour. 70 00:11:44 --> 00:11:58 I have selected a brush here and I can control the diameter of the brush with this slider and I paint through this stuff I want to have selected. 71 00:11:59 --> 00:12:16 I have to see that I don’t select stuff which I don’t want to have in the image. 72 00:12:17 --> 00:12:26 When I release the mouse button, the algorithm starts to work and some areas here has to be selected. 73 00:12:27 --> 00:12:41 Everytime the selection gets updated and area that is similar to the stuff I just painted over gets selected. 74 00:12:42 --> 00:12:53 Now I click on Mark Background and start painting the background that I don’t want to have in the image. 75 00:12:54 --> 00:13:11 This tool works better when there’s more difference between the selected part and the stuff which is not selected and here the difference is not big enough. 76 00:13:12 --> 00:13:16 Just press enter to accept the selection. 77 00:13:17 --> 00:13:26 I think you have got an idea of how this tool works. 78 00:13:27 --> 00:13:35 The path tool belongs also to this part but I’ll cover that sometimes else. 79 00:13:36 --> 00:13:47 In the select menu there are some other stuff you can do with selections and i'll cover that also sometime else. 80 00:13:48 --> 00:13:51 So this was it for this tutorial. 81 00:13:52 --> 00:14:04 Let me hear some comments and I promise you for the next show with really new things which are viewer Generated content. 82 00:14:05 --> 00:14:18 You will find a link to this file in the show notes at meetthegimp.org and if you want to leave a comment then please do that. 83 00:14:19 --> 00:14:24 This is Hemant Waidande dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial Project.