GrowCut plugins - fun freeware for background extraction

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Postby -default » Thu May 18, 2006 11:19 pm

Hidden Power is certainly a good program.

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Postby mikemeister_admin » Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:41 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.



Thanks for posting this plug-in.  I like what I see to this point, but layer masks are new to me, and what I wanted to do is replace a background with a sky image.  Can some one tell me how this is done with this program or point me in the right direction to understand how to use this program to replace a background image.  Again this is a very weak area in photoshop for me.  I would love to see the out come of the image that I'm trying to get to work.

I can see the mask in photoshop, but now I don't know how to apply the background and merge the results.  Any tips would be a big help.

Dennis

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Postby mikemeister_admin » Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:25 pm

Dennis,

I have a dutch .mov file witch is 59 MB big.
and I have paid once for this.

but I know certain when you look on the internet there are different sites where you can see free movies about that theme:

Tutorials

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/university/tutorials/tutorials.shtml#PS
scroll down and halve way you find about photoshop and Elements.
there is a explanation about it.

Frits

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Postby mikemeister_admin » Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:43 pm


Dennis,

I have a dutch .mov file witch is 59 MB big.
and I have paid once for this.

but I know certain when you look on the internet there are different sites where you can see free movies about that theme:

Tutorials

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/university/tutorials/tutorials.shtml#PS
scroll down and halve way you find about photoshop and Elements.
there is a explanation about it.

Frits



Thanks for the information on this, and I will start looking for movies or information as this is a weak area for me.

Dennis


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