Are there any AI open source software / tools / projects that can do image manipulation such as removing backgrounds, or isolating/cutting out a subject or person, or similar things? Manually cutting out things in gimp is a massive PIA and i see there are online tools that seemingly accomplish this using AI but they are locked behind making accounts/credit card/other barriers to get the full size processed image. Surely there must be something out there.
- I’ve used this extension for krita, which lets you select part of the image and have an AI draw in your selection based on a prompt. It can work for outpainting, and inpainting, like removing a feature from an image (or adding one). You may have to do some prompt engineering to get the right outcome: https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion?tab=readme-ov-file - It uses comfyui as the backend which can be used to make more complex things. - But using it with Krita is really great and easy enough for kids to use. 
- I second this, I use it myself and it’s pretty good even with my old GTX 1660 ti GPU 
 
- Upscayl is for specifically AI upscaling: https://upscayl.org/download Its a handy tool to have nearby depending on the type of image work you’re doing. 
- ChaiNNer: is very flexible and can do all of that. Node based.
- Upscayl: do only upscales with less models, but has simpler UI, very fast in AMD GPU (because NCNN).
 
 - I haven’t tried automatic1111 or ComfyUI yet.
- All of them work offline withou limits and are more flexible than online alternatives.
 
 - GIMP has:
- This one can do that stuff: https://github.com/huchenlei/ComfyUI-layerdiffuse?tab=readme-ov-file 
- Remove.bg is fantastic for fast, easy background removal right from your browser! It even lets you replace the background with colors, patterns, or pictures. - Have you looked at the community you are referring to? Ain’t FOSS. Instead, I would suggest https://removerized.tech/ (Locally in your browser AND hostable, under GPL-3) https://github.com/yossTheDev/removerized Or rembg https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg - Ugh! I’m so sorry, I just saw the question show up in my feed and I got excited when I had an idea. I’ve got to do better job filtering out communities I don’t mean to be in, or alternatively, find out if Sync for Lemmy can ONLY show my subscribed communities 
 
 
- For general use AI image manipulation, you may want to look into Stable Diffusion. 
- You can find a lot of stuff over at hugging face - open source stuff as well. This for example for background removal. 








