Coming Soon: New Technology To Remove Unwanted People From Your Photos
Want the perfect photo of yourself standing in front of the Coliseum without a throng of tourists all around you?
Does one of your kids think it’s hilarious to make bunny ears behind his siblings in every family photo?
Are you trying to forget that your ex-boyfriend was your date at your sister’s wedding?
Well, here’s some good news: a Swedish imaging firm called Scalado has developed a photo system cleverly called “Remove” that can (you guessed it) remove unwanted people and objects from the background or foreground of your photographs.
Funny thing is, it’s all pretty simple.
For any one photograph, Remove captures multiple images, which it then uses to create a composite image with multiple layers. The software then highlights removable objects that you can delete.
When you delete objects, you’re peeling off a section of one layer, leaving behind all the other layers. And presto: a perfect photograph of you in front of a landmark without having to wait 5 minutes for a break in the flow of pedestrians.
Beautiful, isn’t it? Sure, you could do this with photoshop, but that’s hard. This is way easier and suitable for the instant-update world we live in.
Scalado plans to officially unveil their Remove technology this coming week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. At this point, no one knows if this is just going to be an app, or if they’re going to try to sell it to one or more cellphone companies. Either way, I want it. Like, yesterday.
[via Newslite]
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