Removing background in a .jpg photo

[Mib007]

Greetings all,

I am new to Krita. What I need to do is replace the background in a .jpg photo. I read on Duck.ai that Krita can do this, but I haven’t found how to do it in the documentation.

I am running Krita 5.2.2 on Linux Mint:

System:
Kernel: 6.8.0-100-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.7 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.6.3 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Can someone help?

[Takiro]

See if this tutorial helps:

Learn how to remove background in Krita

Hello everyone Today, I am showing you different ways to remove any backgrounds in your illustrations or in your photographs. I hope this tutorial will answer many of your questions. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:40 How to remove the white background of a black and white illustration 00:57 How to remove the black background of a colored illustration 01:22 How to remove any colored background of illustrations 02:02 How to remove the black background of a photograph 02:55 How to remove th…

[Michelist]

Hello @Mib007, and welcome to the forum!

Alternatively, you may want to try it using this plugin:

Vision Tools (Selection, Background removal, ...)

Vision Tools This is a collection of tools & filters which use Computer Vision models. Currently the focus is: Semantic object selection Background removal Features Point Segmentation Selection Tool - click on an object in the image/layer to select it. Box Segmentation Selection Tool - draw a bounding box around an object to select it. More precise than using a single click. Smart Fill Tool - similar to “Smart Patch”, but can pick up some patterns in photos better. Not very reliable at…

It can be used with Linux and Windows.

Michelist