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Re: Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online

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Adding a "step-back" button (even if it was only a few states), and the ability to increase or decrease brush size would greatly enhance this. Great start though, and something like this is much needed for a lot of people who may not know an image editor, or don't want to open it for something simple.

Undo is sorely needed. Just deployed a smaller brush size (30px instead of 40px when zoomed out). It should get picked up when you reload the page (though default asset caching might hold it for another hour. Well, well)

Otherwise, this is a killer job :) Keep up this awesome project!

Re: Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online

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post #51

Great work! Fast and easy to use. Just curious why more and more projects dont support opera =(

You have Chrome, Firefox, and even Safari. What compels you to use Opera over any of those?

Bookmark manager, speed, GUI configurability. It's pretty much the difference between a yacht and a tricycle.

I won't even let Chrome on my sytem directly (i.e. outside of a VM), because I'm tired of it downloading updates with some super needy background service, keeping 100s of megabytes around for no good reason, and no way to turn it off. At least Mozilla products ask. For that reason alone Opera and Firefox play in an entirely different league than Chrome or Safari. Fuck features, let me see your heart... Firefox I use and love, it's just not my main browser because only Opera has bookmark management worth calling that.

Re: Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online

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post #125
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).

It's not, we developed it from scratch w/o knowledge of the gimp feature. (I'm one of the devs).

Did you use the SIOX algorithm to implement it? That's what the Gimp feature is based on: http://www.siox.org/

Re: Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online

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We all know these things never work as well as the demos. Well... this worked as well as the demo. Better, actually--I was literally finished before I knew it because I didn't see the real-time update on the right at first. A deceptively simple UI and beautifully implemented. Useful, well conceived--I'm quite impressed.

Re: Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online

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This seems very similar to the "Magic Wand Tool" in Photoshop. It's nice that it's free online, but it doesn't seem to produce better results.

Eh, maybe you don't use Photoshop much but this barely similar to the Magic Wand in any way other than selecting a part of an image. Magic Wand doesn't give you a nice live preview of the alpha channel for starters.

Re: Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online

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post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I use The GIMP for these sorts of things, the boundary is not realtime in the same way. As you select using the foreground or bg paint, the boundary doesn't change immediately. Instead it waits until you've finished painting, un-click and then it processes - it's a minor but significant difference in UX.
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