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Re: Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online

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Post by k-mcgrady »

jacobn wrote: post #85
k-mcgrady wrote: post #72

Really nice. First time I tried it I carefully shaded the red and green areas and it worked ok. After looking through the comments here though I clicked green once on the part I wanted to save and then 3-5 red clicks in other areas and it worked flawlessly. Great job.

Yeah, we need to figure out a way to get people to do the first time what you did the second time...

I worked it out after seeing this comment[1]. A screenshot like that placed close to the file upload box may help.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5683162

Re: Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online

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Post by RobotCaleb »

jacobn wrote: post #83
RobotCaleb wrote: post #82

Very cool. The red and green suck for us color blind folks, though.

Ah. Ooops. Sorry! Will have to think a little about that one. I guess there's a reason it's team red vs team blue... (I'm one of the devs)

Thanks! Colors aren't a good way to portray information accessibly.

I just helped dto implement color blind support in his game 2x0ng[0][1] and we settled on the solid colors being hashed[2] to allow people with all forms of color blindness access the game.

[0] https://github.com/dto/2x0ng [1] http://blocky.io/2x0ng.html [2] http://imgur.com/a/098zC

Re: Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

ars wrote: post #124
UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't matter. Gimp is insanely hard to use. This isn't.

I guess you've never actually used gimp. Because this is exactly how the gimp tool works - you highlight the foreground, background areas and it shows you in real time what it's picking. It's so similar to it I was wondering if it actually IS it (behind the scenes).

GIMP doesn't give you a realtime boundary like this does, nor a preview image. I've done a lot of alpha matting in The GIMP and this seems far quicker to get similar results (except the up/download for me).

For quick and dirty work I'd use this for sure but revert to a desktop tool for precision work I think.

Does anyone know other Linux tools, or online for that, that do this comparatively well?

Re: Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online

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Post by russellsprouts »

glenjamin wrote: post #112

This is really nice, it would be cool to add a rotate button - the image I picked at random to upload I think was rotated via EXIF. Also, it'd be really cool to have a "simplify lines" type feature, I was using a fairly dark photo and the lines were a bit jagged - but generally the foreground item will have smooth edges.

Yeah. The same things happened to me with an iPhone picture.

Re: Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online

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Post by ars »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #135
ars wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess you've never actually used gimp. Because this is exactly how the gimp tool works - you highlight the foreground, background areas and it shows you in real time what it's picking. It's so similar to it I was wondering if it actually IS it (behind the scenes).

GIMP doesn't give you a realtime boundary like this does, nor a preview image. I've done a lot of alpha matting in The GIMP and this seems far quicker to get similar results (except the up/download for me). For quick and dirty work I'd use this for sure but revert to a desktop tool for precision work I think. Does anyone know other Linux tools, or online for that, that do this comparatively well?

> GIMP doesn't give you a realtime boundary like this does, nor a preview image.

Yes it does. Look at the link in my post - Figure 14.33. The dark blue area is the background that will be removed.

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