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A Crazy Tech Discovery

How to easily isolate an image from iPhone photos.

So, I’m knitting the Brodgar poncho and took some photos of my progress.

As I was scrolling through the photos on my iPhone something happened.

My photo began to light up with an outline moving around the subject (my knitting) in the photo.

Original photo

I chose the “Share” option from the pop up, and sure enough the isolated image came up in my Air Drop. That moving line took out the background and gave me only the knitting part of the photo – isolating the subject.

Photo with original background replaced!

Lightly touch the photo and the glowing, moving line will appear. Choose a photo with an obvious subject. It’s magic!

I don’t know if this was part of a recent Apple update or if I’ve had this ability all along, but it’s pretty cool and I’ve never seen it before.

Just for fun, I took the poncho knitting image and added a new background using Pixelmator.

This opens up some great possibilities for my graphic design work.

I’m a tech imbecile, so this might be old news for many. For me, it was a crazy way to begin my day. I wanted to play with it some more, but had to get to work.

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One more time….isolating Skittle the Cat

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Trying New Things

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It’s All at Our Fingertips

I now have an iPhone.  It’s pretty easy to use since I’ve had a Mac desktop computer for a year now.  I’m not exactly young, and all this technology stuff will always feel foreign to me, I’m afraid.  If you are over 50 you know what I mean.

Although I work online, and can understand the online world much better than I did a few years ago, it will never feel exactly right to me.

As a young person I would have loved to have all this access to information.  I appreciate it now too, but back when I was a kid, if our parents, siblings, friends, books, or television didn’t explain it, we simple didn’t know it.  Whatever ‘it’ was.  Now everything is just a search away.

Because of my need to work, and the fact that I sort of stumbled into my online job, I have had to learn how to promote and interact online.  I tweet, use Pinterest and have a FaceBook store page.  And I love being able to earn a living from my home office.

And now I am on Instagram.  It’s one of the reasons I wanted to upgrade from my old flip phone.  I wanted the ability to take photos at any time, which I can do with my new phone, and share them. Continue reading “Trying New Things”