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Remove.bg is a Website That Removes Backgrounds from Portraits in Seconds (petapixel.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: If you often find yourself needing to remove the backgrounds from photos but don't have the time to manually do it, you might want to bookmark Remove.bg. It's a simple free website that automatically removes the backgrounds from photos in just 5 seconds with a single click.
Simply use the button on the homepage to select a photo from your computer (or you can also enter a photo's URL on the Web). The website then processes the photo and shows the result in moments. Under the result is a button that lets you download it as a PNG image with a transparent background.
Simply use the button on the homepage to select a photo from your computer (or you can also enter a photo's URL on the Web). The website then processes the photo and shows the result in moments. Under the result is a button that lets you download it as a PNG image with a transparent background.
... although this is much much faster.
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Is there nothing they won't abscond with?
okey, it also has SIRI to select the picture? Also NOO, you're not getting my pictures!
I tried it, and it's not perfect at distinguishing foreground from background, so the picture of myself I gave it came back with a huge black lump on the side of my faces that should have been part of the background. Of course, I could clean up that minor imperfection in photoshop.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
20 years ago, my wife and I ran an independent online children's bookstore. Our catalog/shopping cart was, to a large degree, hand-built by me (yay Perl and FoxPro), and the product images (only for monthly features) were scanned from publisher paper catalogs. It was ridiculous levels of effort to clean those images up (especially with Photoshop Elements, we couldn't afford more than that).
It was the best of times (a search on Yahoo or AltaVista had as much a chance of finding us as Amazon when you searched for a title), it was the worst of times (not enough volume to get discounts on rapidly-rising credit card and shipping fees). We got out with a small profit... but I would have loved to have had today's image tools.
Design for Use, not Construction!
I'm curious because I would think that the majority of people that come to this site can probably remove backgrounds it themselves with photoshop/Paint.net/Gimp/Krita/etc. I guess it's less work but I would think that most people here would pride themselves on being able to do it themselves.
Secondly, I don't see any privacy/ownership statements on this - couldn't this be a way for the owners of the site to collect personal pictures or even gain access to a user's computer?
Hopefully I won't get slammed like my last post.
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This sounds like a spammer, er, I mean marketer who gave careful thought to who is audience was so he would be rated up in firehose.
Spear-spamming?
... that removes spam from Slashdot?
Why is there a blatant advertisement here? There's tons of these sites out there, this one isn't even well known.
https://imgur.com/a/nm0ysSk
I just threw an image with a solid black background at it, so it should have been relatively simple for the program to extract the image. Terrible result. This site is doing the job all that well.
I've had good luck with the low-cost, work mediated by humans site http://pixc.com
Good for product background removal, etc.
FWIW!
from all my pictures of Natalie Portman?
I've been conditioned to believe that if a service is free... I might be the product.... lol
https://ibb.co/0qjgkPt
Not bad, it did what it supposed to do. Tried with some images, it did the job almost always perfectly. Aslo tried with slashdot screenshoted Einstein's image, no problem. I'm quite impressed.
This Slashdot post read so much like spam to me, that I thought there must be some catch, that maybe this was truly magic or a leap forward. So, I tried a few photos that I had paid someone on Upwork to crop, and it worked instantly. Had I had this tool, I would have saved $20 each. Then I googled, "Remove background from image" and tried the first results quickly, and none of them were auto-magical. You had to paint the foreground and background to crop.
So, yes this post is 100% written like spam, but upon closer inspection, it appears to be a novel leap in image editing.
Philosophistry
It does not generally remove any background.
only works with humans. lame
I tossed this together in five minutes, with some fairly minor editing to remove one blob remove.bg left in.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
I wrote software like this 20 years ago. When I wasn't busy writing website functionality in Perl :)
My software operated so slowly that you could sit and watch it work. It looked like someone was using a pen to draw over all of the background. You'd click anywhere on the background and it took off like a Roomba, drawing white until it detected the edge of an object.
It would often get halfway done, then get to the one spot where the border between the foreground and background wasn't readily distinguishable, then cross that point and start deleting the foreground.
With a bit more work (and perhaps a "rewind" button) it probably would have worked well enough to be very useful to a lot of people. I kinda wish I had improved it enough for it to become well-known.
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How come all Vietnamese cuisine looks like it just came off an autopsy table?
How about just a tool I can use on my computer to do this stuff, maybe batch process a lot of images locally I wouldn't want or have time to upload? Maybe I could tweak the algorithm or use it with a combination of other tools to get the results I want.
A web site for this seems very inconvenient and expensive (all the uploading/downloading)
If this ever gets as accurate as spending the 90 seconds in Photoshop or Gimp to do this then I am all about it. But if I have to spend time editing the photo after running it thru this site, then it is an unnecessary step.
There really is a quick and simple process to remove a background of a photo. In fact this process can be used to isolate any area of a photo and make the rest transparent. The process in all has like 6-7 steps. And only one of those steps takes any real time depending on exactly how precise the edges need to be.
If you are interested there are plenty of tutorial videos on the tube which will show you the basic process.
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With most photos being well over 500x500 pixels these days the fact that the output image is 500x500 maximum makes this less than useful for most people.
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Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
This "shared report" is 100% advertising. Why is it published as a story?
An anonymous luser shares a report:
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Lemon curry???
Tried a group photo with 8 people. It cut the heads and feet off of most of us.
Come on. I knew before I tried it that the results would be abysmal. Any moron can do better with a mouse and Gimp. Why would you bother posting such a story, with such ambivalent, destructive results to the processing of the image? I'm sure there are idiots out there that would use it. Darwinism wins again.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. ~~ Hunter S. Thompson
Fuck you /., you used to be for nerds. This is advertising for SLAVES.
It butchered my image. Ended up looking like if you just select the background with magic wand and press delete.
here is some ML that will remove backgrounds and leave people.
https://github.com/d-grossman/joojanta200