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01-Mar-2026 jimmsp

Macaw in the WIld

Kauai, HI

Background is one I took a couple of days ago on a visit to the Fern Grotto.


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Canon Image Challenge09-Mar-2026 22:22
Jim, this is so excellent! Thank you for the mini-tutorial...I have never used Gemini in this fashion...Hummmm, too busy to learn this now, but you do show a clear path. Thanks. Travekker
Canon Image Challenge09-Mar-2026 17:37
6 months ago, I would have used Photoshop to replace the background. It would have been pretty easy . Two layers with the trees on the lower layer. Then I would just put the bird an the top layer and mask out the background. I used to do that by hand, but a year ago PS introduced an easy way to select the background. In this case it might have been a total work effort of 30 min.

But for this example, I tried the newest Gemini 3.1 AI. I gave it the 2 jpeg images, and wrote a prompt that said to replace the background of the bird, saving the tree, with the photo of the trees. 20 sec later I had this image. Probably 2min in total. I am continually impressed with what it can do. All I have to do is properly describe it exactly as I want the final to look.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge09-Mar-2026 03:56
yeah, this is kind of growing on me also, T
Canon Image Challenge02-Mar-2026 14:40
That’s a great background replacement process you use. Paul