research.microsoft.com — Microsoft has a nice free tool from their research group available, that automatically makes group pictures from single pictures. Looks amazing.Screenshots here: http://research.microsoft.com/projects/GroupShot/GroupShotHelp.htm
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super_structureJan 20, 2006
Provided you have two (or more) photos of the same group, you can pick the best elements from each to composite into an improved product. Note they are able use use the photo with girls eyes closed and the photo with people in the background together to remove those elements.It's very common to take several pictures of groups in a row that you could use this with. Now, it doesn't matter that someone blinked in this or that photo, as long as they didn't blink in all of them!
miker71Jan 21, 2006
Anyone who's watched the extras on The Phantom Menace DVD knows that this was done waaay back then, and on moving images.no digg.
wirjoJan 21, 2006
Awesome stuff :D
rhyno2000Jan 21, 2006
Dupe (I was going to submit but refrained when I *saw the original post*)+Misleading and inaccurate headline+Kinda lame software (looks like a neat idea, but there's a reason it's still in "research")________What's wrong with Digg...C'mon people! I'm not trying to flame here, just trying to make it a better place.
Closed AccountJan 21, 2006
whats a photoshop?lamesky
jjusticeJan 24, 2006
This gets a digg purely for the fact that the name of one company's product has become so prevalent that it's used to describe another company's product :-)
kwreidJul 2, 2007
Tried it on exactly a scenario that this tool was built for. A series of about 10 photos of a bunch of moms and kids lined up. I knew I was going to have a problem with finding a single photo that had everyone looking forward at the same time, and I looked forward to having to do my own manual cut&paste in an image editing tool.Then I remembered I saw this on Digg. So I downloaded it and tried it out.Man does it suck.I don't know what it thinks it's doing, but whenever i select a region of a picture that's good and tell it to use that region, it undoes the last region I did this for. Go back to the research lab and finish it off. Heck, I'll get my own intern/co-ops to do it and they'll likely finish in an afternoon.