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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.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
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?
Yeah. Why is it always "with a single click?" Nothing is ever with a single click. You have to double-click just to open your damn browser. In what world does everything amount to "the very last thing I did"? In that case, I'd like to swim across the English Channel with "a single stroke," write a novel with "a single word," drive across the country on "a single gallon of gas, in a single minute". It's stupid, and for damn near 30 years there hasn't been a software marketing person capable of advertising their product without using the phrase.
"I promoted something on a computer without using a single outrageous cliche" - now THAT is a statement someone should be proud of!
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The problem with quotes on the internet, is that nobody bothers to check their veracity. -- Abraham Lincoln
https://imgur.com/a/nm0ysSk
Chuck Norris could have written this entire post with a single click.
Check your premises.
Not really.
*shakes cane* *shouts "get off my lawn!"*
There. Now I'm better.
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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
what about The Stig?
Not everyone has to double click to open their browser, which you would know if you belonged on Slashdot.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
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.
before
after:
tone
If it tastes like that, it's not the real thing. It's feaux pho. :)
Yo momma so ugly it did the opposite.
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:
If you often find yourself needing a refreshing beverage on a hot day, but don't which one to choose, you might want to try Acme Cola. It's a delicious carbonated beverage that drowns your thirst in delicious taste in just 5 seconds.
Simply unscrew the cap and let your mouth be filled with delicious, refreshing nectar. It will leave you feeling ecstactic and refreshed. Try Acme Cola today!
Lemon curry???
If he is using Linux and had the text in the console clipboard, then yes, he can just mouse middle click.
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
It's the tech marketing version of "you can see it from space". (that's how line-of-sight works, duh).
It butchered my image. Ended up looking like if you just select the background with magic wand and press delete.