Amazing new background removal tool: remove.bg

Nice one Gavin !!! For those who may not know, jade axegod pendants were prized burial objects among the social elites in ancient Costa Rica. The pendant illustrated is about 1,800 years old, give or take 200 years. They were made in ceremonial fashion without the use of metal tools. A jade celt was cut in half from two ways lengthwise & split in half, leaving a septum on the undecorated back side. The one illustrated has unusually fine carving. My favorite Cost Rican jade is much smaller, 2 1/16 in. long, & carved from gem quality sea-green jade, c. A.D. 300-700. It is pierced transversely at the neck area to be worn as a pendant. I scored it at a Sotheby Pre Columbian auction in NYC, in 1994. See photos below.

 

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Worked for me. Much better than bonanza.com. Thanks for the link.

 

Another from this morning.

 

I should mention this was done with the remove link too. But I used photopea.com to do the editing for the black background, merging and so on.

 

I have a jpg that is a black square. After remove has done its job, I just add picture and select it. Only had one image fail and that was a really busy background.

 

That is a great tool @Archilochus - thank you for posting the link.

 

Thanks for sharing that link Archilochus. Like some said already, too bad the resolution is not that good, although you can pay for ia better one. I like to play around with the photo's a bit and a couple of days ago i started using pixlr. Seems to be similar to photoshop, and its free. Here's the first result after going through some tutorials. Seems pretty user friendly so far. I'll keep exploring the program and keep on perfecting my pictures.

 

Here are some of my beneficiaries:


RIC Vol. I, CLAUDIUS, AS, Rome, No. 113, 41-45AD, (29mm, 11.2gm)

Obverse: Claudius, bare headed, facing left, undraped bust
Inscription: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG PM TRP IMP PP
Reverse: Personification of Liberty standing right holding pileus (freedman's cap) in right hand
Inscription: LIBERTAS AVGVSTA - S C (left and right)


RIC Vol. IV, SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS, Denarius, No. 335

Obverse: Septimius Severus,, Laureate head facing right
Inscription clockwise from bottom: SEVERVS PIVS AVG BRIT
Reverse: Victory (Britannia?) seated left writing on shield
Inscription: VICTORIAE BRIT


RIC Vol. IV, CARACALLA, Denarius, No. 231a

Obverse: Caracalla, Laureate head facing right
Inscription clockwise from bottom: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT
Reverse: winged Victory advancing right holding trophy
Inscription: VICTORIAE BRIT


RIC Vol. IV, GETA, Denarius, No. 91

Obverse: Geta, Laureate head facing right
Inscription clockwise from bottom: P SEPT GETA PIVS AVG BRIT
Reverse: Victory standing left holding wreath and palm branch
Inscription: VICTORIAE BRIT

 

A little rough around the edges of the coin but overall I am happy. I used Photoscape X to combine the pics and add the text.

 

One more:


RIC Vol. I, CLAUDIUS, SESTERTIUS, Rome, No. 112, 50-54AD (36mm, 28.2gm)
Obverse depiction: Claudius, laureate head facing right
Inscription: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG PM TRP IMP PP
Reverse depiction: Civic Oak Wreath
Inscription in four lines:
EX SC
P P
OB CIVES
SERVATOS
(within Civic wreath)

 

it works great for me..



I guess that this would be the reverse of my denier from Nevers 1050-1100 AD

 

Thats cool

 

I am glad so many have found a way to better photos with this tool but I still prefer to shoot the coins o the background you want rather than playing with it later. I prefer black and will continue shooting on black but did this coin on white as a test. The lighting and cropping of the two don't match but the edges are both clean with no limits to size other than those dictated by the camera.

 

I have to say - https://www.remove.bg/ quite impressive - I thought the complication of the closeup would challenge the algorithm - but the result looks pretty nice to me.

and the background coloring option works nicely too...
While I'd still like to take better photos and skip editing, this is easy to use, and will clean up some of my existing photos.

 

I think it does a good job.

Here is a result.