Green screens are not only used in video and film production. You may create the most beautiful backdrops for your photographs using green screen effects. All you need to do is capture a picture with a green screen background and then swap out the background with a Chroma Key feature-compatible photo editor. Using the chroma key, you can replace the green screen with any image or object of your choice. You may add green screen effects to your photos with various professional photo editors. Most of these professional photo editors offer paid plans, though, and it takes some getting used to how they work. GIMP is a free and simple alternative that you can use. For Windows, macOS, and even Linux, GIMP is a cross-platform picture editor. This article will review the best GIMP alternatives and how to use the green screen feature. Because it works on all platforms and has fewer steps, GIMP is a better option than other photo editors for adding green screen effects to your images. Additionally, the software can run smoothly because it doesn’t consume many system resources. Several professional photo editors are available but lag if a high-end system setup is not accessible. Most significantly, it has a ton of features and is available for free. Follow these instructions to add a greenscreen effect to your photo using Gimp.
You can green screen in GIMP by using the following steps:
1. Open GIMP on your computer.
2. Go to the File menu.
3. Click on Open to open the image with the green screen in the background.
4. At the lower-right corner under Layer, right-click on the image layer.
5. Select Add Alpha Channel option.
6. Click and hold the Fuzzy Logic Tool.
7. Click on the Select By Color option.
8. Click anywhere on the green screen of your image to automatically select the entire green screen in the background.
9. Press the Delete key on your keyboard to remove the green screen.
10. You will see some halo green effect around the object you have removed.
11. Go to the Select menu.
12. Click on Grow.
13. Change Grow Selection By from 1 to 2 or more according to your preference.
14. Press the Delete key on your keyboard to delete the halo green effect.
15. Go to the File menu.
16. Click on Open and open the image that you would like to replace the image’s background.
17. Copy the image and go back to your image.
18. Paste the image.
19. Create a New Layer from the Layer section, so the background image gets its layer.
20. Move the background image below the subject layer from the Layer section.
Your image has now been green-screened! You can repeat the steps above to put more practice because it is a complex process, and as it is well known, practice does make perfect. All the best!