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I didn’t realise that the preview app on Mac’s now has background removal built in. But I’ll also be bookmarking this site!
by iamflimflam1 3y ago
I didn’t realise that the preview app on Mac’s now has background removal built in. But I’ll also be bookmarking this site!
- stephenr 3y agoYou can also just right click a file and choose "Remove background" from the Actions menu - on iOS this same behaviour is available just by long-press on a photo almost anywhere and drag the resulting foreground-only image, or alternatively hold and then choose "Copy Subject". Quite different (arguably better but I guess your use case will determine if it's better or worse) results for some images too, e.g. this image (https://www.southwiltonvet.com/files/HedgehogSouthWiltonVet.jpeg https://www.southwiltonvet.com/files/HedgehogSouthWiltonVet....). The linked demo removes the hands/arms, macOS retains the hands/arms. On this image (https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/streams/2014/June/140602/2D274906006317-today-hedgehog-140602-01.jpg https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/streams/2014...) the linked demo makes the hands fade away like Greg Kinnear
- elishah 3y agoYeah, and as is usually the case, it's not Preview in particular doing it. Preview itself does almost nothing, it's just a wrapper around the standard file handling libraries that everything on the platform uses. So this is just a normal thing you can do in nearly any context that any image is displayed anywhere on macos/ios. Not only no external site required, but not even any particular application required.