{"id":8804,"date":"2024-12-07T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=8804"},"modified":"2024-12-04T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:24:07","slug":"remove-background-from-photos-for-holiday-card-creation-with-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=8804","title":{"rendered":"Remove Background from Photos for Holiday Card Creation with Python"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You can use open-source tools to produce holiday cards this year. Suppose you have a great photo of your family or grandchildren, but it was taken in a different season, and now you would like to use that photo with a different background. There is a Python module remgb that will do just that. First, you must set up a Python virtual environment and install the necessary extras to accomplish the task. I created a directory called rembg<\/strong>. I do that with the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$ mkdir rembg <\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Then I setup a Python virtual environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
python3 -m venv \/home\/don\/rembg<\/code><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Next I activate the environment with the following command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
source \/home\/don\/rembg\/bin\/activate<\/code><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Then I install rembg<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
pip3 install rembg<\/code><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
I want to use rembg from the command line so I make the following additional installation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
pip3 install \"rembg[cli]\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Then I install onnxruntime<\/strong> which is a machine learning accelerator<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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pip3 install onnxruntime<\/code><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Now I am ready to remove the background from the image that I have chosen. This is a recent picture of my wife and I taken in the fall of the year. I like the picture but I want it to have a festive background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I ensure my image is in the rembg<\/strong> folder and then execute the following command. The i<\/strong> switch means that I am operating at the file level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
rembg i grandparents.jpg grandparents_no_bg.jpg<\/code><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
In the command above, I renamed the output file to have my original still, just in case I wanted to use it again. You can see below that the background has been removed from the image above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I can create a nice background for my card with InkScape, add some festive lettering, and use a Pointsettia I downloaded from Openclipart.org<\/a>. The completed card is shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Rembg is open source and has an MIT License. Onnxruntime is open source and has an MIT License<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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