{"id":421,"date":"2013-01-05T16:52:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T05:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quppa.net\/?p=421"},"modified":"2013-01-05T16:52:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T05:52:07","slug":"image-background-remover-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/05\/image-background-remover-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Image Background Remover Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Quppa\/ImageBackgroundRemover\" title=\"GitHub: ImageBackgroundRemover\">View source on GitHub.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Inspired by <a title=\"Window Clippings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowclippings.com\">Window Clippings<\/a>, my preferred screenshot tool (which unfortunately crashes a lot under Windows 8 RTM), I wrote a small program for making image backgrounds transparent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Background-Remover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Background Remover\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: 0px currentcolor; display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Screenshot of Background Remover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Background-Remover_thumb.png\" width=\"681\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It comes with a command-line interface and a basic GUI (pictured above). The GUI supports dragging-and-dropping images, and you can switch the black and white images by right-clicking on either. The source code is included, along with a sample set of images.<\/p>\n<p>The command-line syntax is: BackgroundRemover.exe imageout imageblack imagewhite<\/p>\n<p>Thanks are owed to <a title=\"IanG on Tap: Calculating Transparency of Vista Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/www.interact-sw.co.uk\/iangblog\/2007\/01\/30\/recoveralpha\">Ian Griffiths<\/a> for the equations used to calculate transparency.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BackgroundRemover.7z\">BackgroundRemover.7z<\/a>      <br \/>478,473 bytes; SHA-1: 002CF9C89B918951BBC7DECB9F9C1A8D53008E1F<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View source on GitHub. Inspired by Window Clippings, my preferred screenshot tool (which unfortunately crashes a lot under Windows 8 RTM), I wrote a small program for making image backgrounds transparent. It comes with a command-line interface and a basic GUI (pictured above). The GUI supports dragging-and-dropping images, and you can switch the black and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/05\/image-background-remover-tool\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Image Background Remover Tool&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[28,34,154,171,179],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-windows","tag-c","tag-colour","tag-transparency","tag-windows-2","tag-winforms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}