[erkaman]

In this artice, I describe a technique that can be used to seamlessly copy-and-paste one image into another. I also provide source code(https://github.com/Erkaman/poisson_blend), that demonstrates the concepts in the article.

[sgillen]

Looks very cool, am I correct in thinking this won't produce images that are seamless without a good mask to go along with the image?

If that's the case I'd be curious to see how it works with masks generated with e.g. photoshops smart edge detection.

[acqq]

Check the masks here, compare them with those that you can generate fast and then please write about what you've found:

https://github.com/Erkaman/poisson_blend/tree/master/img

I'd also like to read what you can conclude.

[erkaman]

yes, the mask is also pretty important. otherwise, you get lots of stuff from the background of your source image in your blended image, which often looks pretty bad.

[domsl]

That was very well explained. Would it be possible to include this into GIMP?

[erkaman]

since the technique is so simple, it's probably not hard at all to include into GIMP. Wouldn't surprise me if someone had already implemented a plugin for it.

[StreakyCobra]

Indeed, this has been implemented in G'MIC [1], which can be used as a plugin in gimp. I definitively recommend it! (based on the exact same paper :-)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsHgQY6025I

[tomcooks]

Thanks for the beautiful explanation, i have no math background and this was really easy to understand.

Ulterior examples than library+kitten/penguin would be great

[erkaman]

you can see more examples in the linked repo:

https://github.com/Erkaman/poisson_blend