How to Make a Profile Sticker using Gimp – 2019

okay in this video we are going to turn

an object image or a profile picture

into a sticker with a white border which

you could use in any graphics such as

thumbnails for YouTube

why pay 10 $20 a month for Photoshop and

other expensive graphics editors when

you can do it for free and it's just as

good as Photoshop we'll be doing it with

GIMP the free really awesome graphics

editor the only downside to GIMP is that

it can be kind of complicated to use

that's the reason for this tutorial

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these thank you ok let's work with this

file it's of this really smiling lady

which I got from unsplash.com which has

a lot of really nice beautiful images

you can use with your graphics

okay so let's right click this and open

it with GIMP okay this is about

importing the color profile let's just

convert this nothing to change there

okay first step let's take the rectangle

select tool and put it around her like

that I'm not going to include her entire

here just like this profile picture that

I'm making okay now image fit the

cropping or the canvas to selection okay

so now we can't use this two tools here

which sometimes

as you very usable for taking out

background colors but those are useful

when the background is say one color or

almost one color but look when this

background has full of different colors

and maybe textures these tools won't

work

see it will it's only just select pieces

of the same color even if I hold down

shift to add to it it doesn't work so

well to undo undo okay

this tool which is called the Select by

color tool let's try to select this see

it takes all the dark colors of the

similar dark colors it doesn't work so

the tool we need to use now is path

let's undo this whoops let's redo the

cropping okay this is the path tool

that's what we need so what I'm going to

do is draw out a path and that will

select the object I needed I'm not going

to go into very detailed selection of

her I'm just going to do it kind of

quickly for for times sake okay I'm

going to press ctrl scroll in to zoom in

press the spacebar to sort of drag

around or pan around okay now let's

start I'm going to use this corner and

just start drawing it I mean if I had

more time I could just do it more

accurately but I'll just kind of skip

around here just get the gist of her

hair even here I'll just not include

that part

and come out here and to close the path

hold down ctrl and left click

where you start it so that's the path

now to turn it into a selection press

Enter so now you can see the little ants

crawling around that means it's selected

so this is what's selected but I'm going

to invert the selection so now this

background is selected okay and the

trick here now which not too many people

know is to add a go-to layer

transparency add alpha channel this

allows you to create a transparency this

will be transparent and go back in there

layer transparency color to alpha okay

then the trick here is to make this one

transparency threshold should be 1 and

boom there goes the background it turned

into a transparency so so now this

background is still selected this

transparency

let us invert the selection control I

now she selected we're going to create

the border now okay which is by going to

select and grow let's grow this by 17

pixels you can tell there's now a border

around her so now we have to turn that

into a white border which means we have

to add another layer so right click this

layer over here see that add new layer

just say ok and bring that layer below

her so that's behind her and edit fill

that layer now with white

with the background-color there you know

how a sticker you can export this by

going to file export as you name it I'll

just give it a two out of two go to

select file type we need to make this a

PNG P and yeah that's a great file type

to have your transparencies show up

export export again and let's go to our

folder and there we have it we have a

new sticker of her face which you could

you know open this in a graphics editor

and just stick that sticker right into

your your whatever ad you're creating or

YouTube thumbnail so that's how you do

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