So I was removing an unwanted person. I was trying out the new ‘Beta’ software of topaz.
Originally I had used the default option of ‘Erase Area’. With that option. You’ll never guess what it did?
Well it erased my person, and generated a totally new person? I was like. Well, that’s AI for ya!
I changed it to ‘Keep Area’. And the function worked like a charm. I’m not sure why.
But hey, the photo is absolutely beautiful now! Good job.
I have had this issue as well. Not just with people. A bicycle was replaced by a car, that was obviously computer generated and not at all natural. After generating more cars with each pass, it eventually came up with a baseball cap! I found that increasing the masking area Around an object does reduce this likelihood, but thanks for that tip. There is no clarity as to what erase area and keep area are supposed to doHopefully a hover over explanation will eventually be offered.
I thought about it more, and thought I should have joked, that at least it generated someone with clothes on… That’s hilarious that you were getting new cars, from a bicycle.
It was actually a delivery bicycle, so it had a contraption on the front
I’m getting similar but I’m not replacing a person, I’m just trying to remove a post out in the sea. Crazy AI.
First time it was a man, looked like a waiter with one leg. I redid it on the same image and settings and got a woman in a long dress.
It may be confusing …
Thank you for the explanation. That kinda helps. However, it almost suggests that by accident that it corrected my picture. Because the wording either way doesn’t suggest anything about replacing “Bike’s” with “Cars”, or “body snatching other people”. I think whatever engine they are using for ‘Removal’, that is the code, is probably grabbed from a free Github source, and maybe they didn’t know what it did completely.
Just pure conjecture and rumor.
Your right, it is conjecture. Although I do work in the Software Business. In this day and age, you rarely reinvent the wheel yourself, at least start from that stage, so you start from ‘existing code’… then that code gets added to your “existing code-base”. But your right, I have no idea where the removal tool’s code came from. But as we know, they tend to add things and they call them ‘Beta’, they don’t work too well. Like the ‘Color’ and ‘Lighting’ functions don’t work that great, but I have tried them. Every-once in a great while I’ll attempt to see if those functions improve my image. Maybe 1 image out of 7… Perhaps one day in the future.
The removal feature, is something that you see on a lot of Phone-Apps. Maybe Adobe Photoshop has it as an Easy option. But I don’t personally subscribe to Adobe. I use Gimp, and there are Gimp ways to do it, but not easy ones. So this function, is a great addition, if they can get their act together. Maybe it will improve. Or maybe it is just as simple as the setting I spoke of above, but as said, I really don’t understand the setting.
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The removal tool, has been working wonders for me (now, I haven’t seen it doing anything like what happened in my first post above… not in a month it seems). My only complaint now is that sometimes I want to use it on a larger area, and then it doesn’t work as well, or I have to “save”, then “remove” another portion, then “save” then “remove” then “save” then “remove” another portion. Like for instance I was using it on a fence wire that went all the way across the entire image in front of an elephant… Eventually it worked pretty well, but only after about 5 or 6 iterations. My druthers is that I could make multiple boxes… at one time.
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