Another vote for space-to-drag. Though, I guess us photoshoppers probably will continue to use photoshop for this sort of thing so our muscle-memory shortcuts might not be so important :-D
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#82Very cool. The red and green suck for us color blind folks, though.
Re: Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online
#83Very 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...
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#84intensely cool. very useful for re-purposing icons whose backgrounds would otherwise clash with a website's color theme.
Yeah, it actually works really well on vector art. If you're into that sort of thing, check out the sick bg color removal and alpha channel "recovery" by zooming way in on the boundaries.
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#85Really 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...
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#86this is really awesome! undo/redo and "start over" would be very helpful.
I agree, definitely needs these buttons. Works amazingly well!
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#87Seems that the same tech could be reapplied to giving depth of feel to images by giving an option to unfocus the background instead of just deleting it.
Filters could also be a consideration for future (ie. popular things like black and white background with a color foreground)
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#88Is anyone else getting an error? "Network Error We are having trouble connecting to the server. The following tasks have been unable to complete: Connecting to worker "Unable to connect to the worker." Waiting" This is occurring after I drag and drop an image
Sorry, that's me being slow scaling out the backend. I've added a couple more boxes. (Haven't added auto-scaling yet)
I first thought that there is still the same problem but then I saw that the web socket worker is using 9006. Our company network is blocking unusual ports. Any chance to move that to 80, 443 or 8080?
http://ec2-23-20-184-45.compute-1.amazonaws.com:9006/api/web....
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#89I actually wrote my honours thesis on this topic. In academia it's called Alpha Matting/Image Matting. There's a great website http://alphamatting.com/ that provides a benchmark dataset and a comparison of a lot of influential methods. I applaud your work in making a real time and interactive matting algorithm! One day it might be also as accurate as state of the art methods. You guys should write a paper about your…
(I'm one of the devs.) Thanks for the link! Real time is a pretty big constraint, and the input for those results is a much more complete labeling than we expect (only 22 to 44 pixels around the ground truth boundary are left uncertain). But I'll definitely read the paper and hopefully we can gain some insights from it!
Actually Shared Matting is far more applicable than KNN Matting. It's designed for real time use and has a post processing step which will help you deal with fine detail like hair.
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#90I've been trying to use the demo for the last... 30 minutes or so, but after I upload the image the "Initializing" progress bar in the "Booting" window always freezes around 90%.