There are various services to help you remove the background of portrait pictures but I really like this one: https://www.remove.bg.
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There are various services to help you remove the background of portrait pictures but I really like this one: https://www.remove.bg.
here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM1TdS2z0m0
EDIT:
I guess I misunderstood the question. :-) But the site is great - it does it nicely.
The main page on the site says it is free but under pricing there are monthly pricing plans and I do not see free option. Can you give us a little more information?Quote:
Originally Posted by Boy
Ray
Usually apps that say free, are free to try. They add a watermark that only goes away when you pay for the product.
How times have changed. In days of old ten people would have described how to cut out objects from the background by drawing a shape to cut out the subject.
The free service returns only low-res results. Their subscription scheme allows for HD images and the use of an API.Quote:
Originally Posted by RKissane
I wonder how the program determines what is foreground and what is background.
Isn't there a plugin somewhere that does this?
If the color range is fairly tight, say sky, you can use the Photo Tool > Select Colors to Enhance.
Or you can use magic eraser in Photoshop to remove the background.
Or even the background eraser in Xara since this is after all a Xara forum.
Sorry, just noticed that you already banished the troll ... the troll I shouldn't really be feeding anyway.
Pauland - I still do it that way. Trace an image and delete portions I'm not using. Through those service companies that remove backgrounds on photos in situations where singular strands of hair can be kept while background are removed have some utility, but as others have mentioned, it's not free. Rather than paying someone else anything, I just spend the time needed to cut the backgrounds myself using Xara.
I am using Clipping Magic to get rid of the background fast.
I'm sure there are some YouTube videos showing how to remove backgrounds using Xara. I can't remember the guys name that shows how but somewhere I have his vids.
Go to YouTube and search for:
Xara remove background
I think Larry is referring to Xhris. I did a search and it seems his website link does not work any more.
I thought that may be the case to but I couldn't find a link to his tutorial either.
EDIT
Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icjV...VvmLWS&index=7
Actually GP I was thinking of Narrenzunft Kalbach
i would post the old video but it is several versions old, but could still be useful.
Every time I see XaraXhris' tutorials I'm amazed at this labor of love. And so sad that Xara increasingly lost faith in its own stellar creation during the following years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
Any Links by trolls (meaning users that have no history of good useful posts) should not be allowed in my opinion. However subjects should all be about xara, I do not mind video tutorials on masking with xara tools.
What depresses me is stellar users like Xhris who have abandoned xara.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boy
Yes Xhris tutorials were great.Quote:
Originally Posted by behzad
What I find interesting is they have fine tuned this for skin and hair. I uploaded a brownish croissant on a peacock blue plate, and it said could not process the image! Then I uploaded a photo of a teenage boy with red hair against a winter forest background and it did a splendid job.
Anyone know what happened to Narrenzunft Kalbach? Is he on XU or what?
Well, that's because Xara stopped developing this stellar application. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by behzad