Export Faces

KevinG

Export just face images of a person as JPG so I can make a collage of the person’s faces only

Andrey

KevinG do you think default faces cropping in Tonfotos (the one you see in personal album) will be OK for that purpose? I guess you may want to have a bit larger pieces of original images cropped for a collage. Btw, what tool do you use for collages? I am thinking about adding collages functionality sometime in Tonfotos in the future, so any feedback will be useful. Or, if there is de-facto standard tool for that, making better integration would also be an option.

Oriel

Also to train stable diffusion 🙂

Andrey

Oriel I guess that is a joke, but on the serious side of this, faces need not only be cropped like in personal albums, vertical tilt has to be corrected and size should be normalised. Otherwise training results will be pretty bad. All that is done internally in Tonfotos for faces recognition purposes, but it is not visible in the album. In the album you see just parts of original image without any corrections.

Oriel

Andrey actually not a joke (but i guess a very uncommon use case), normalizing/pre-processing/cropping images is already needed when using dreambooth (and to be clear - i only have a few-days experience playing with this) , exporting a selected set of faces as separate images (in as large and high quality as possible) will cut down several steps i currently do manually:

go over images in album for person
select ones where the person is alone, “horizontalish” and preferably centered
run through an automatic cropper
manually fix results

again - i agree this is an exotic use case, not expecting this getting high priority on my account 🙂

KevinG

The size on screen with faces at max size would be fine, I have been using AndreaMosaic and added one of mine to our shared folder.

Andrey

KevinG would you mind to send me a link to the folder once again please? (to my email, if possible)

Andrey

KevinG I did a quick research on topic of photo mosaic, this is quite interesting. Actually, it should not be that difficult to generate mosaics like that in Tonfotos, and that would definitely be much easier for users, than generating tons of intermediate photos and then uploading to some other applications.

However, I would like to ask you about that use case a bit more, if you don’t mind. Just trying to understand how useful that can be for other users.

What you typically do with mosaics like that? Is this some sort of birthday present?
Do you ever print mosaics, or this is purely digital art?
Why faces? Do you use full images too? Do faces add more meaning to this art?

Andrey

Oriel will it be too much if I ask what you are actually trying to achieve going thru all those efforts?

Oriel

Andrey Sure, this is just me playing around with SD running locally on my GPU (instead of some spy cloud), essentially, i use dreambooth to add a person (f.e my kid) to an existing model, then use it to generate images like
“kidNameSD as a superhero flying over a building with lazer eyes, comicbook, jack kirby” or “kidNameSD riding a dragon, illustration, fantasy theme”
i’m getting mixed results, but occasionally something truly amazing comes out, and results are better the more images i add to the dataset.

Andrey

Oriel this is very interesting. Actually, I guess that could be a cool feature to add to Tonfotos sometime in the future.

KevinG

Faces because it is much more impressive when they see their photo is made from their faces, the sample was done from Picasa faces that I used before your program.
Made birthday cards, used in PowerPoint celebrations, normally shared as digital version so they can zoom in and see their faces.
I suggest that you enable faces to be saved and let people use what ever program they want to create Mosaic as it would require a lot of programming to integrate into your program.

KevinG

Just had friend pass away and would like to be able to download all his faces for the family, can make my own collage but the only option now is to screen grab each face. Very time consuming if there are 100s of faces

Andrey

KevinG sorry about your loss.

I hope you understand that I have to prioritise feature requests based on popularity.

KevinG

Understand, just thought you must already create faces files so might be easy to export

KevinG

Any progress on exporting faces, in the age group I am in, with many funerals (3 since last post) , happy with quality and size of faces you display, but a long process of screen grabbing each face and pasting or saving them to make collage.

Andrey

KevinG sorry to say, but I am afraid there is not that many people asking for this functionality. I have to prioritise other tasks first.

KevinG

understand

KevinG

FYI
I have experimented, exported 10,200 pictures with my wife in them, to a seperate folder using Tonfotos, installed Picasa (still available as standalone application) and did face recognition on this folder, it found only 4,500 pictures with my wife in them which I could export as faces only. I now have the 4,500 face only images that I can use for collages etc.

TonFotos is much better than Picasa at finding faces.