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That might sound straightforward enough, but this fly is a proportionately significant object and, given the lined detail of the flower petal behind it, I was worried I might be asking too much too soon of Snapheal. In this flower close-up I wanted to remove a small fly. Still, the results in this test were basically flawless.īefore and after: flower with and without fly (Photo: Gizmag) Judging by the length of time individual facts remain on screen, it appears promotional videos have sped up the image processing sections: understandable to keep the video snappy, but probably worth mentioning.

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In recognition of this, MacPhun has thoughtfully included a series of 'amazing facts' that appear on the progress bar as the app does its work. Being CPU-intensive, the removal of several clouds at once took several minutes, and was a much slower process than the promotional videos suggest, at least on an i5 MacBook Air. What becomes immediately obvious is that larger erasures take time.

I tried all the deletion algorithms just to compare, and sure enough, as recommended, twister produced the best results, largely respecting and maintaining the gradated blues of the sky.Ī guide video suggests that the best results can be achieved by applying the effect multiple times, but with a bit of experimenting I found the most pleasing effect was to erase the foreground clouds all at once by painting liberally over them, and then applying a few blur retouches with a nice broad brush to clean up the odd, slight imperfection here and there. Here, I wanted to remove the foreground clouds while retaining those in the distance. Removing objects overlapping the sky is a feature shown in some of MacPhun's promotional and guide videos, and so we dug out a photo from the archives with a nice blue sky with some meandering cumulus clouds. Task 1: Cloud removalīefore and after: a lake with a cloudy sky above (Photo: Gizmag) Twister is the most mysterious of the three algorithms and is designed for sky, clouds or multiple small objects.ĭo the erase algorithms work? We put Snapheal through a series of increasingly taxing tasks to find out. Shapeshift is designed for the removal of larger objects and seems to borrow a large amount of visual data from one particular direction.

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Wormhole, its icon suggests, copies surrounding pixels from all directions and is designed for erasing skin blemishes or small objects. Each has a different image processing algorithm at its core, and each is designed for different situations. From there, one of three Eraser Modes can be applied: Wormhole, Shapeshift or Twister. As with retouches, erasures must be painted onto the selected object. Snapheal lives or dies by the success of its erase features which, Alexander Tsepko of MacPhun told Gizmag, took over six months to develop and patent. Caution must be exercised when applying multiple retouches to a given area, as defects and artifacts can develop.įor everyday tweaks, Mac-wielding amateur photographers may do better with iPhoto which offers more flexibility in applying and removing after-effects, though the selective retouches of Snapheal might prove useful in certain cases to users who don't have more heavy-duty editing tools to hand. Only one effect (selected in advance) can be applied to the active mask, and the moment another effect is chosen your previous edits are locked in, with only the undo button for recourse. There are sliders to vary the extent of the edit, and these can be adjusted after the mask is painted. Unlike, say, iPhoto, these latter adjustments can be selectively applied to particular elements by painting the effect freehand over the desired object. With it you can crop and rotate photos, as well as adjust contrast, saturation, sharpness, exposure, and apply blur. Could it be magic? Judge for yourself.īefore we get onto the erase features of the app, it's worth mentioning that Snapheal includes the basic suite of photo editing tools. Gizmag took an advance copy of Snapheal 1.0 for a spin.

In addition to the usual tweaks and minor edits allowed by vanilla entry-level photo editing software, Snapheal allows you to erase whole objects - including large ones - from your photographs.

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Snapheal, to be released on Wednesday, is a photo editing app for Mac which 'can do magic,' at least according to MacPhun, the app's developer.