Apple added some new AI -based selection tools for photos iOS 16 And preview in MacOS Ventura which allow you to select a subject of a photo and to extract it from the image. Here’s how to use them.
The Apple Photos Application on iOS 16 has some new selection and image copy features. You can use these features to put selected parties of your photos available to others or to copy them to other applications.
Copy and share
In the first case, if you open an image that contains a large primary object, you can press this part of the image quickly and slightly to start photos’ IA Selection tool. Do not rely on and do not hold too long, or the photos will start reading the live preview of the image.
Just type lightly and quickly, then release:
The photos will draw an animated brilliant border encircling the leading object and it will also appear with a menu with “copy” and “share” items.
If you select “Sharing”, you get the standard sharing sheet and if you select “Copy”, the first-plan object selected will be copied in the clipboard where you can paste it in another application manually. You can share the object in any application listed in the sharing sheet which is able to accept a new image entrance.
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If you sweep the three small points at the top of the Photos application and first open a second application, you can drag your original selection from photos.
To do this, make sure that the second application already has an open window that can accept the image entrance. Any application such as a word processor that can accept Apple drops or notes will work.
Once the second application is opened, come back to the photos and put the selection of objects from your photo again, but this time press lightly and immediately start to slide on the second application window in a single movement.
When your image selection enters the second application window, a green point with a “+” will appear, indicating that you can now delete the image object:
Once abandoned, he will be copied in the second application:
The drag-copy of one image from one application to another is a great way to save time and avoid copying copy or manual image edition.
IA improvements in macOS overview
Overview in MacOS 13.x Ventura has a similar functionality but without the drag and drop.
If you open an image in a preview containing a large primary object, you can get the same selection of AI by making a Select everything First of all, by clicking on the Tools menu in the menubar, waiting for a few seconds, then flying The cursor on the Tools-> Remove the background Menu element.
While the cursor remains above the menu item, seen will draw the same selection of animated neon lights around the largest element in the foreground – in the same way as iOS do:
If you click on the Delete the bottom Menu element Once the selection is made, the background will be deleted from the whole image. The selection of the AI is automatic and the preview determines which is the most important primary object to select.
You can then choose Edit-> Select everything (Command-A) again to select the whole image. The overview is intelligent enough to leave a transparent background in the edited image, so if you copy and stick it in another application, the result will be the same as the iOS example above.
You will only get the remaining part of the original image when you stick it:
You can also save the image with a transparent background by keeping the option key, selecting File-> Save under …choose Png of Format: Menu at the bottom of the sack save under Alpha Check the box down. “Alpha” in IT terms means a layer of transparent background.
Know that the selection of the AI will not work on each photo, because there must be a large primary object on which to type or select so that it works. Otherwise, photos or overviews can simply ignore the tap or selection.
New photos and image selecting and editing tools of Apple can make the editing and copy of images in iOS and in preview macos Much easier and faster.