Playing with Pixelcut! An AI Image editor

 Hi all,

Today I want to go over Pixelcut. What is Pixelcut? It is a free online AI image editing tool featuring tools like a background remover, magic eraser, recoloring, AI photo shoot, and even a Magic Writer. So today will spend some time going what these tools do and how to use them.

Pixelcut Background Remover!

First up is the background remover. I can see these be a very handy tool for a classroom environment allowing you to strip out backgrounds of photos to help bring focus to the main topic of discussion. For todays example I am going to use a photo of a motorcycle I once owned. It's an okay photo and serves the purpose of a listing photo. If I didn't like the background I could spend hours in an image editing software with the erase tool but who has time for that? With the Pixelcut background remover we can simply upload it and it automagically removes the background without any need for highlighting areas we want to keep or erasing any parts we don't want.

Here we can see our finished product. Pixelcut has done an impressive job of removing the background in a matter of seconds. While there are some weird quirks left like where the tires meets the sidewalk it appears to have confused some of the tire and the shadow. Unfortunately there are no options for adjusting settings so what ever it outputs is what you get. It does have the option to add a background of your color or you can let the AI help pick a background 

Pixelcut Magic Eraser!

Up next is the magic eraser tool. It's a fun little tool to help remove unwanted objects from an image. For this next image I was lucky enough to be present when NASA donated their DC-8 Airborne Science Aircraft to ISU's Aircraft Maintenance program! I am going to attempt to remove the people from the image along with the extra vehicles. This tool does require us to use a selector tool to highlight areas we don't want and the AI will attempt to remove those areas and fill them in with a generated "fix". After selecting the areas we want removed simply hit the Apply Magic Eraser button!

The Pixelcut Magic Eraser did a great job making this DC-8 the main focal point of the image. We can see that it is not perfect and it did struggle with the person in the bottom right. I don't think this too big of a deal as I presume anyone who looks at this image will just think its some discoloring of the tarmac. 

AI Photo Shoot!

The last tool I am going to over is the Pixelcut AI Photo Shoot. It appears to combine the background remover with an auto background generator. I did find this tool to be a little troublesome as most images where not cleaning up the background well enough before adding in a new background. This left lots of weird floating objects hanging around. So for this photo I am using an image of a Lamborghini I took while at the Utah Motorsports Campus! 

While the above background of the image taken at the Utah Motorsports Campus looks like a great photo already sometimes it is fun to mix things up. Simply adding the image to the Pixelcut AI Photo Shoot automagically removed the background and placed us in a warehouse with marble floors. When the image finishes rendering there are options to change the background or edit the image with the Magic Eraser tool, unfortunately this is where Pixelcut wants you to pony up and pay for the Pro version.