Hello and welcome to Color Splitter! Here's some hot tips to help you make the most of it.
- Upload three images, one for each of the three boxes on the left.
- I like to upload three slightly different pictures of the same thing.
- It works best with three images that are about the same size. Images that are way smaller compared to the others might be hard to place.
- Once you have all three, they'll be split into their red, green, and blue components and reassembled on the right.
- Drag the little images around their boxes to drag the components around. I like to line things up over the eyes or some such.
- Right click on the right side to save or copy the image. You'll likely have to crop it in another image editor.
- The final image resolution will be the same as on your screen, so you can zoom out (ctrl+minus sign) and refresh the page to try again with a higher resolution.
- The size of the boxes get set when the page loads, so any window size changes or zooming in/out will only take effect if you refresh the page.
- The red and blue separation apparently works pretty good with red-blue 3D glasses.
- This program is mostly for making fine adjustments- if you want to shift an image by more than the input allows, I suggest padding it with black in another image editor.
- This program runs entirely on your computer. The images never leave your machine, and it'll even work without internet at all. You can even install it to your desktop!
- The sample picture is of Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan, and it's one of the first color photos ever taken.
- It was produced by taking three pictures, one through a red filter, one through a blue, and one through a green, and combining them after the fact. Color Splitter is recombining them for you.
- You can see the original film scans I used at Wikimedia Commons.
- There's not really any source code beyond what's already been downloaded to your computer, but you can fork me on Github if you like.
- Have fun!
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