
We recently looked at Inpaint ( Macworld rated 3.5 out of 5 mice ), another Mac app that lets you remove objects from a photo. While Inpaint is less than half the cost of Snapheal, Inpaint is a one-trick pony--you paint over a selected area and click Erase. The only adjustment you can make is in brush size. Snapheal offers a bit more.
In my testing of Snapheal, the Erase tool worked fairly well, though better in less-cluttered and -busy shots. As with Inpaint, the process is as easy as painting over an object and then clicking the Erase button, but you can also make more-finely controlled edits. For example, you can adjust the brush diameter, unselect painted areas, and choose between three eraser modes: Wormhole, best for small imperfections and objects; Shapeshift, for big objects; and Twister, for sky shots and multiple small object. (I recommend experimenting to see which eraser mode works best--you can always undo an erasure you don't like. For instance, at times I preferred the Wormhole mode over the Twister mode for erasing an object from the sky, even though both did the job effectively.)


Once you're done erasing objects, you can perform simple edits right in the program. Snapheal's Retouch tab lets you selectively edit parts of an image for contrast, saturation, sharpness, blur, and brightness. You can make full-photo adjustments using the app's Adjust tool, which includes the same editing options as Retouch, as well as sliders for color temperature, hue, saturation, shadows, highlights, and noise. And a Clone and Stamp tool lets you can make fairly detailed fixes when Snapheal's erasures aren't perfect.

Macphun makes the weighty claim that Snapheal "can do magic." The app largely lives up to that claim, offering a simple way to remove objects from an image--you don't need to know anything about photo editing to know how to use Snapheal. If you have Photoshop, which includes a Content-Aware fill feature that accomplishes the same task, Snapheal is likely not for you. But for those who don't own Adobe's advanced--and wallet-denting--editing software, Snapheal is an excellent alternative.
Source 'http://www.pcworld.com/article/246495/snapheal_removes_unwanted_objects_from_photos_and_more.html'
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