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App to combine similar photos by choosing best parts from each (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by calculuschild@lemm.ee to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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Windows Live Gallery had a great Photo Fuse feature that allowed you to select multiple similar photos and be able to select which faces from each photo would be used in the final composite image. This was great for group photos where in every photo someone isn't looking at the camera or blinking etc, as you can combine them all and select all the faces that are looking in the right direction. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Zy4mLkEL4

Unfortunately, Windows Live Gallery is now unsupported and unavailable for download. Is there any FOSS software that has similar functionality (offline/online)? Preferably on Android so I can directly clean up my picture collection as I take the photos.

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[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not FOSS, but Google's adding this feature right into Photos

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, Google, the company known for their long term support of useful features.

[–] calculuschild@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it available right now? What do they call this feature so I can search for it?

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They call it "Best Take"

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

utterly shocked this tech existed for that long

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I just tried looking for Windows Live Gallery on oldversion.com, but found an old link to it on archive.org instead. I've linked to the post that originally shared it.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-download-windows-live-photo-gallery/429ab2ef-854b-40a7-adc5-cde530866606

I haven't been able to test it yet as I'm on my phone.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I think the latest Android phones come with a similar functionality, to be used when taking group pictures. It allows you to take N photos and then make just one picking faces from the pool... Or so I understood from a friend that bought the latest Google pixel .