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Photo Crop Editor is an Interactive Photo Editor software for selecting and removing an object in a picture or photograph from its
background. The user can then compose the result on a different background to create a new scene. Interactive
Photo Editor works even if foreground and background colors are similar.
Interactive Photo Editor consisting of three steps:
1. Object marking:
In this first, coarse step the user quickly identifies the object of interest by marking quick mouse strokes, using
left-click for foreground and right-click for background. The software will lookup object boundary automatically.
2. Boundary editing:
In the refinement step, the user can edit a boundary directly.
3. The final step extracts the cut out object and compose it onto new background.
Start Tutorial
Step1: Marking Step Step2:
Editing
Step Step3: Overriding
Brush Step4: Perform Better Step5: Output
Composition Step6: Save
and Print
Step1:
Marking Step
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Press and hold the right button of mouse, marks a few strokes on the background in image. When the mouse button is released, the interactive image segmentation engine is started, and a boundary of object of interest is generated by program. The program interface shows as following:
Step2: Editing Step
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Click the polygon button on tool bar to let it become checked state, and then use mouse to draw a polygon which surrounds the eye part on image, the eye part will be added to the current selection. The program shows as following.
Usage of polygon tool is "Click left button => move cursor=> click left button => move cursor=> click left button......, then, double click left button, the polygon is finished".
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Click the "Subtract from selection" button on tool bar to let it become checked state, then use mouse to draw a polygon which surrounds the small white spot on left side of image, the small white sport will be subtract from the selection:
Step3:
Overriding Brush
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Click the overriding brush button on tool bar to let it become checked state, and then use mouse to draw a polyline to replace the jaggy segment of the boundary as following.
Usage of overriding brush tool is same as polygon tool: "Click left button => move cursor=> click left button => move cursor=> click left button......, then, double click left button, the polyline is finished, and the jaggy segment of the boundary is replaced by the polyline".
Please make sure that the polyline should intersect with the boundary at at least two
points, the segment between the two outside crosspoints will be replaced by the
polyline.
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The refined boundary:
Step4:
Perform Better
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The interactive image segmentation engine can perform better when marking object and background by surrounding object and background with polygons.
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Click the polygon button on tool bar to let it become checked state.
Use mouse left button to draw a polygon along the edge of the object of interest.
Usage of polygon tool is "Click left button => move cursor=> click left button => move cursor=> click left button......, then, double click left button, the polygon is finished".
Step5:
Output Composition
 Step6:
Save and Print
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Click "Save" or "Print" button, the "Image Output" dialog appears. Move cursor onto handles of the selected rectangle, then drag mouse while holding left button to resize the selected rectangle. Then click "Save" or "Print" button to save or print image within the selection:
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