Decompose
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Decompose 1.0.3
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What is Decompose?Decompose is an application allowing an easy and flawless extraction of elements from pictures in order to use them to make composite images. It is the perfect tool for making images for web pages, newspapers and magazines or simply for your own creations. Extracted objects are saved as a TIFF file with transparency. Decompose also corrects colors to remove all traces of the previous background, thus generating perfect mattes. Extract objects from images with easeSimply draw a rough outline of the elements to extract and identify the background region. Then all the cumbersome contour refinement is done automatically. Smooth and spill-free edgesExtracted elements have smooth edges without any traces of the original background color. Hence, you can generate flawless composites. How does it work?Decompose allows you to easily extract elements from a picture and use them to make composite images. It is the perfect tool to make images for web pages, newspapers and magazines or simply for your own creations. Traditional extraction of objects with a lasso tool typically takes time and the results are far from perfect. The extracted objects have rough edges that are often tinted with the color of the previous background. Decompose produces smooth edges and completely removes the background color. You simply need to draw a rough approximation of the edges of the objects and identify the foreground and the background regions. Decompose then refines the edges, corrects the colors and allows you to save the result as a TIFF image ready to be used in your favorite compositing software. What are people saying about it?Greg Healy, Editor at MacApperDecompose v1.0.2 can produce quite good results depending on how much time you want to spend, and is an application that I will definitely be using in the future. For the complete review visit MacApper. Editor’s review on SoftpediaA very nice little program that does this job a lot better than most professional applications out there, who lack such a dedicated tool. It definitely worths a look if you find yourself working on lot of decompositions. For the complete review visit Softpedia. Ian Greig, review on MacUpdateI find that Decompose scores over Photoshop by having a brush to define the transitional edge areas where pixels may be foreground image or background. A cut-out in PhotoShop relies on performing a very accurate selection, knocking out the background and then doing a lot of smoothing of the edges. In Decompose you make a broad-brush selection of the edge area, covering the whole border between foreground and background, from which the app. calculates which is which, removes the background to transparency and gives a smooth edge. It seems to work well even if there isn’t a lot of contrast between foreground and background. If you can see it, you can cut it out. Well worth the money to save time and effort — and if you need to make good quality, foolproof cut-outs in a hurry, you’ll thank the developers. Review on VersionTrackerWhat an excellent little program! Works as advertised. So easy to use and efficient… What are the computer requirements?Decompose is an universal binary application so it will work on both PPC and Intel based Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Want more information?For general information about Decompose, simply visit the Decompose product page. We are committed to provide the best customer care. Hence, to get answers to your Decompose questions, visit our FAQ page. To quickly learn to use the product you can consult our tutorial. If you can not find your answers in our FAQ or tutorial pages, feel free to contact us. We we will gladly answer all your questions. Who are we?We are Metakine Inc., a Canadian software company located in Montreal. Metakine specializes in the development of software for audio, video and image processing. The founders hold software engineering degrees and are passionate about programming and digital video and hope to translate their passion into useful and usable software. Our product line includes the widely popular DVDRemaster and Fairmount DVD utilities. In addition to our current products, we have contributed to various projects in the Macintosh community over the years. Namely, we have been involved in the development of the MediaPipe project which was a pioneer in providing DivX, Vorbis and (S)VCD encoding for Macintosh, OpenShiiva to reencode MPEG2 as MPEG4 and SonicBirth. This weekend’s ZOT?
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Alan Hecht said,
March 20, 2009 @ 4:38 am
I had high hopes for this app, thinking that it would do a good job of analyzing the start & stop of an object in a larger picture. But all it seems to do is give an interface and some tools for the manual process of pixel pushing an image mask. You still have to do the exacting work of defining the object’s edge.
Ralph said,
March 20, 2009 @ 7:14 am
No, it’s not quite like magic, but it still seems to do a better job than other methods. If there is a high contrast between the object and the background, you don’t need to be as careful about defining the edge. The nice thing is that you can start with a wide brush and let Decompose take it’s best guess and view the result. If you want to tweak the result, you can go back with a smaller brush and work on the details. You can also play with the alpha slider to adjust the edge blur of the selected object, which has a dramatic effect on the output.
Mark said,
March 20, 2009 @ 8:07 am
This is definitely worth try. I’ve used Photoshop Elements just a couple of times and the interface for this is so much simpler. The results are better, too, by far I got with my first attempts with PE. It’s a good buy for the non-professional. I’m in.
t5tr said,
March 20, 2009 @ 9:24 pm
Next time I’ll need to extract a logo from its background I won’t be fighting without this little tool. I’m in.
Tod said,
March 21, 2009 @ 10:47 am
When I tried the demo, I used the open/save dialog to find a picture of a friend’s face so I could eliminate the background. The image never showed up in the window so I have no way of knowing if this works or not. I tried both a JPG and a TIFF version of my image but no go.
Metakine said,
March 21, 2009 @ 6:55 pm
@Alan Hecht
Only a rough highlight of the contour of the objects you wish to extract is sufficient. Decompose sophisticated extraction algorithm will refine the edges automatically.
Thank you.
Etienne Clement
Metakine Inc.
Metakine said,
March 21, 2009 @ 6:58 pm
@Tod
Can you please send us a email with the images at support[at]metakine.com so we try to reproduce your issue.
Thank you.
Etienne Clement
Metakine Inc.
Mark said,
March 22, 2009 @ 1:13 pm
I tried it and it actually worked. I’ve tried other knock out apps and had mixed results. I’m going to get in.