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)
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#142Great 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?
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.
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#143Earlier 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).
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#145Didn't work very well for hairs http://i.imgur.com/g16qR4J.png
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#146This 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.
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#148Earlier 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.