Hi, >>> But SIOX is supposed to be more than a selection tool, isn't it? Isn't >>> it about extracting foreground objects? A selection is not enough for that >>> when the foreground consists of transparent pixels. >> >> SIOX is a tool to create a selection, nothing more. I don't see what a >> foreground extraction tool should do besides selecting the foreground. >> Perhaps you can explain this? > > Consider a completely red background with a slightly blurred green filled > circle in the foreground [1]. If you want to extract the green foreground > object you need to get rid of the red in the pixels with both red and > green, but you can't do that with only a selection. > > A good foreground selection tool would need to get rid of the red in the > pixels with both red and green and only leave slightly transparent green > pixels. Absolutely. And this is exactly what Jenny has implemented as part of the Google Summer of Code. (So until now SIOX was 'only a selection tool' but now it's not anymore -- at least once Jenny's code makes it's way into the main branch) Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Friedland International Computer Science Institute 1947 Center Street, Suite 600 CA-94704 Berkeley, USA http://www.gerald-friedland.org _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
