If you’re a college student, there is nothing more heartbreaking than your ex showing up in your college picnic group photos. While it’s possible to blur or crop the photo, you’ll end up distorting the beautiful scenery in your photo. You can just paint over your ex while keeping the background and other subjects intact for a much more realistic photo. Or you can also swap the face of your ex with an emoji.
Talking of photos, how do you deal with duplicate and similar photos? They are a menace and will occupy storage space and cause clutter for no good. The answer lies with using PictureEcho, a smart pice of software to delete duplicate photos with a few clicks!
Delete Duplicate Photos using PictureEcho
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Removing or editing people out of photos may seem like a difficult and daunting task, especially if you’re not familiar with advanced photo editing tools like Adobe Photoshop, or don’t have prior experience with editing photos. Thankfully, a lot of small apps have emerged that specifically target non-tech savvy users who don’t have the time, expertise or budget to use expensive photo editing tools.
- Inpaint
Inpaint makes the process entirely simple and straightforward. Just zoom in to the person walking in front of your camera and then drag the marker over that person. That’s it, you’re done. Inpaint will automatically take care of the rest and magically strip that person out from your photo. Interestingly, Inpaint is a cross-platform application available for Windows, Mac and iPhone/ iOS.
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- YouCam Perfect
Capturing the perfect photo may not always be easy. After capturing a quick shot, you may realize there are unwanted strangers in the photo. YourCam Perfect is an AI-based tool that can help you remove unexpected people from your photos. YourCam Perfect is available for download on both Android PlayStore and Apple Store. If you’re not satisfied with the automated removal, you can simply undo the changes and revert to the originals. You can also use other features like background remover, body tuner and teeth whitener.
- Remove Unwanted Object (from BG Studio)
Remove Unwanted Object is a free app for Android to remove people, objects, texts and stickers from the photos. With just a tip of your finger, you can give a complete retouch to your photos.
- Photo Retouch-Object Removal
Photo Retouch is not just about photos, it is a combined app for both photos and videos. Using Photo Retouch, you can eliminate objects inside your photos as if they never existed. Not just objects and people, you can also remove ugly pimples from the face or skin blemishes to make that shot a perfect one. Moreover, you can blur moving objects from your videos. The app also provides cloud storage to backup your work from accidental data loss & iPhone theft.
- FlexClip
FlexClip is an online tool that works straight from your browser. There is no download required. Using FlexClip, you can remove people and objects from videos, or eliminate text and picture watermarks. All you’ve got to do is just upload your video to the storyboard and drag over a suitable shape from the Elements section onto the person, object or watermark you want to remove.
- Video Masks
Video Masks is a Windows software that comes with a free limited trial. All you’ve got to do is create a duplicate track clip and use the Mask Creator on the toolbar to draw a mask over the person or object you want to remove. You can also make use of the feather and invert selection features to simplify the task.
- Google Snapseed
Google Snapseed is very easy to use and straightforward. It offers numerous masking brushes and offers full-featured image editing tools. The best feature about this app is even newbies can quickly transform their photos the way professionals do.
- Adobe Photoshop Express
Adobe Photoshop Express is a free tool from Adobe. It combines the power of the computer version of Adobe Photoshop with the mobile version. Using Adobe Photoshop Express, you can make edits, adjustments and fix up unwanted persons and objects in your photos.
- TouchRemove
TouchRemove is another user-friendly app that can export high-quality photos after removing distracting elements. It employs a content-aware fill method that automatically overwrites masked portions of the image with surrounding areas. You can use this method to remove stains and acne from the images, especially helpful for portrait photography.
- Photoleap Editor
Photoleap Editor comes with a multi-layer interface and provides numerous tools for photo editing. It is free-of-cost. Just move the Healing Brush over a person or object you want to remove. Similarly, you can also change the shape size depending on the shape of the object. The Healing Brush does not leave any traces of the old objects in your photo.
- Cleanup Pictures
Cleanup Pictures is another AI-based app that lets you remove distracting elements, objects, text, watermarks from your photos. If you want to rather manually remove elements from the photo, it is also possible. You can export your photos upto 720 pixels in the free version, and higher for the paid version.
- Pixelmator
Pixelmator is a professional image editor which is almost considered the Photoshop of Mac. It offers various features available in Adobe Photoshop to Mac users. Just drag the brush on the elements you want to get rid of. You can also rotate images, add captions, text, adjust colors, create collage etc. You can export your work in various formats such as PNG, JPEG, PSD and PDF. It comes with an in-depth user manual and video tutorials.
- InPixio Remove Background
InPixio is an AI-based app that offers automated background removal and distracting elements. If you’re not satisfied with the automated method, you can manually remove objects by selecting pieces of an image that you want to get rid of. You can then use the Keep tool to highlight the foreground objects that you want to keep. In addition to these features, you can add text, filters, effects and frames to your photos.
- TouchRetouch
Using TouchRetouch, you can eliminate unwanted linear objects, power lines, cables, street lights, trash cans from your photos. You can also improve your photo by removing the pimples, wrinkles, blemishes, or delete watermarks.
You can even change the photo orientation from horizontal to vertical, and vice versa. One of the best features of TouchRetouch is it comes with thorough documentation and video tutorials.
- Clip Studio Paint
You can edit unwanted objects from your photos and animations. Clip Studio Paint may need your original photo for absolute perfection. Using the Clone Stamp Tool, you can insert the base part from your secondary photo onto the original photo. This tool lacks advanced features offered by some other tools.