GrowCut plugins - fun freeware for background extraction

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Postby -default » Sat May 13, 2006 9:38 pm

A couple of days ago I spent some time playing around with the GrowCut Mask and Extract plugins. 
http://research.graphicon.ru/image-processing/gml-growcut.html

These are an alternative to Photoshop's Extract function and help to separate an object from its background.  They work quite well, and are a lot of fun to learn because of the in terractive display.  It's fun, but hard to describe how the image comes alive in a liquid sort of way as you select different areas

These should work with Elements as well as Photoshop.

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Postby BBushe » Tue May 16, 2006 5:08 pm

wow, that is superb!

and free.

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Postby mikemeister_admin » Tue May 16, 2006 9:44 pm


A couple of days ago I spent some time playing around with the GrowCut Mask and Extract plugins. 
http://research.graphicon.ru/image-processing/gml-growcut.html

These should work with Elements as well as Photoshop.



Mike,

first I was glad, and perhaps in the future, I am glad, but on the moment not.
I have experimented the whole evening on the 2 plugins, where are .8bs and not .8bf.
They worked till I click on the end ok.
The real result is a black and white mask and not a extraction.
I know how it worked with photoshop 7 and I know how it worked with photoshop elements 4.0.
But the result is not so,  as bescribed in the plugin manual.

you know a solution to that.?
I am also studying the masking in the hidden powerelements 4.0 which I have.
Perhaps a combination of these two can lead to a result ?

Frits

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Postby -default » Wed May 17, 2006 12:08 am

Try running it from the Select menu instead of the Filter menu.  The result will be a selection instead of a mask, and you can then copy and paste the resulting selection.

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Postby mikemeister_admin » Wed May 17, 2006 10:18 am


Try running it from the Select menu instead of the Filter menu.  The result will be a selection instead of a mask, and you can then copy and paste the resulting selection.


Mike,

you are right, it worked on that way.
I have never looked at the Select segment.
Now I am glad.
In the evening I go experimenting again.

Frits
P.s. very very much thank you. Also for the plugin-tip.

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Postby mikemeister_admin » Wed May 17, 2006 10:41 pm

Mike,

I have used GrowCut extract and it works better than P.S.E 4.0 and also photoshop 7.0 which I have used  a while in the early days.
I can now do a extraction, and at the same time make al layer mask with all the old information still there.
anf of course , I can ad several backgrounds, if I wish.
Nice, its nearly the old Photoshop for photografy.

Frits


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Postby mikemeister_admin » Wed May 17, 2006 11:41 pm

How extracting and still  have it all.

Frits

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Postby mikemeister_admin » Wed May 17, 2006 11:42 pm

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Postby -default » Thu May 18, 2006 12:09 am

Well, I'll be darned.  Layer masks in Elements!  Thanks for the example, Frits.

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Postby mikemeister_admin » Thu May 18, 2006 8:17 pm


Well, I'll be darned.  Layer masks in Elements!  Thanks for the example, Frits.


Mike,

perhaps you are more darned, if you see what Hidden Power can do for Photoshop Elements 4.0.

Frits


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