Sunday, July 29, 2012

Remove unwanted objects with TouchRetouch

Don't you hate it when you have a gorgeous landscape, wonderful weather and the perfect mood, but also other tourists/unwanted objects infront of your lense?
This app called "TouchRetouch" is the perfect solution. With a few simple finger swipes, you are able to "cut out" unwanted people or things of your picture. The cool part is that this app doesnt stop at cutting an ugly hole in your photo, but it analyzes the part around it and fills the hole with what would be there if there wouldnt have been that person/object in the first place.

Sounds like magic? It maybe is.

I tried it out with a picture you might already know if you have been browsing this blog from the beginning, and i bet my soul (the one i havent already sold to satan) that you didnt see it was edited with TouchRetouch when you first saw it.

Here is how it works:
 



First of all, you just need to open the picture you want to edit. I am really sorry that it is so small, if i would choose a bigger size it wouldn match with the size of the blog.




Now, zoom into the picture and brush over the unwanted objects with your finger. You can adjust the size of your brush if you have very tiny objects or larger ones. Still, this app works best if you just want to remove small ones. The red color helps alot by giving an optical contrast. Don't forget the shadows!





Press "Start": The objects disappear and get replaced almost perfectly by what would be behind them.




 Do this with all the unwanted objects on your picture and your result should look like this.
Perfect!


My thoughts on TouchRetouch:
A wonderful app! While it does just one thing, it does it pretty well. For just 0,79€ you can't go wrong with this app. Trust me, at least once in your time as an more or less serious amateur iphoneographer, you will be happy to have this small, yet powerful tool at the palm of your hand.

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