‘TouchRemove’ will quickly remove any annoying objects from your photos using an easy to use interface. You can mask out tourists, power lines & any objects that shouldn’t be in the photo. After the object gets zapped, the Content-aware algorithm in the app will automatically fill & paint the masked area.
The algorithm used by the app is based on PatchMatch, a variant of which is used by Photoshop. However, you don’t need the power of a PC or Mac & fancy photo editing software, since TouchRemove will do the magic for you on a lowly Android phone.
To do so, the algorithm was implemented using Renderscript, a high-performance parallel processing framework for running computationally intensive tasks on Android. This way, a “massive speed boost” is attained compared to Java.
This app is only available on Android & is very similar to the TouchRetouch iOS app. It’s single purpose, & does that 1 useful thing really well, although it also lets you clone as well as remove objects.
The app was developed by Zurich, Switzerland-based programmer, Rainer Follador, who is best known as the bioinformatician responsible for the site GeneWarrior.
He has also released other interesting Android apps, such as Sun Locator Lite & Sun Locator Pro to predict sun & moon position & path at specific locations during the course of a day, as well as the hilariousTrumpifyer app, which adds the “presidential hairpiece” to yourself & your friends in real-time.
Click here to download TouchRemove on your Android device.
– This is a startup profile based on publicly available material & not a review –
Image Credit: TouchRemove
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