![]() There’s a few different ways you can proceed at this point to isolate the woman. Some of these headings are beginning to sound like book titles (possibly romance?) “Isolating the Woman”, “Masking the Woman”… This is what my layer dialog looks like at this point: ![]() ![]() ![]() I also usually turn off the visibility of all the other layers when I am working (so I can see what I’m doing - otherwise the layers beneath would show through and I wouldn’t know where I was working). Now anywhere I paint black on my layer mask, will make that area transparent on this layer. I initialize my layer mask to White (full opacity). To isolate the woman, I’ll need to add a Layer Mask to the top-most layer (if you aren’t familiar with Layer Masks, the go back and read my previous post on them to brush up. The middle layer will become my new background plate. The top-most layer is the one I will be masking the woman from. Once in GIMP I will usually duplicate the base image layer a couple of times (this way I have the original untouched image at the bottom of layer stack in case I need it or screw up too badly). What my final cleaned up backplate should look like. Remember, when we’re done, we want to have 2 images, the background and the woman/platform (with alpha transparency): So I will simply open the base image in GIMP to do my masking and exporting each of the individual image planes. So we’ve visualized a simple plan - isolate the woman and platform from the background. Yes, that’s my daughter at the grave of H.P. One of my previous tests had shown this idea of planes a little bit clearer: This is nice because for the most part the edges are all relatively clean as well (making the job of masking an easier one). This is actually all I did in my version of this in the video. Simple 2-plane visualization of the image. There is the background plane, and one with the woman/box: For instance, with our working image, I can see immediately that it’s relatively simple. The trick to pre-visualizing these is to consider slicing up your image into separate planes. This will make more sense later, but for now just try to use source material that’s larger than your intended render size. This is because you want to avoid blowing up your pixels when rendering if possible. You’ll also want an image bigger than your rendering size (for instance, mine are usually rendered at 1280×720). Even better if there are mostly sharp edges differentiating your subject from the background (to help during masking/cutting). This will make your first attempts a bit easier until you get the hang of what’s going on. What you probably want to look for if you are just starting with these are images with a good separation between a fore/middle ground subject and the background. You’re free to use them, modify them, and share them as long as you attribute me, Pat David, as the originator of the file. These files are being made available under a Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike license ( CC-BY-SA-NC). Set keyframes for Shape Keys through timeline. Īnimate camera position throughout timeline as wanted. Subdivide subject plane a bunch, then add Shape Keys and modify. Push background image/plane away from camera and scale to give depth. Some Blender basics, and set viewport shade mode to "Texture" Import your image as separate planes using the Addon. Export isolated woman and background layerĮxport each layer as its own image (keep alpha transparency).Rebuild the background to exclude your subject. Rebuild background as separate layer ( automatically or manually).Mask out everything except the subject you want. Pay attention to how you can cut up the image into planes. Here’s an outline of my steps if it helps…įind something with good fore/middleground and background separation (and clean edges). blend file just below if anyone wants to download it and see what I finally ended up with at the end of the tutorial. For more experienced users, I’m sorry for the length.Īs a consolation prize, I’ve linked to my final. It’s long because I’ve written hopefully detailed enough steps that a completely new user of Blender can pick it up and get something working. For the purposes of this tutorial we’ll use this one:Ĭlick here to download the full size image. What I do have access to are some great old photographs of Ziegfeld Follies Girls. Large, good photographs make a huge difference in the final results you’ll see. What I also don’t have (but would like) is access to the World Wildlife Fund photo archive.
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