Remove unwanted objects with Snapheal for Mac OS X

This is slightly off topic, as I rarely post news on none iOS app, but Snapheal from Macphun is such an easy to use and impressive photo touch-up and removal tool, that I just had to share it with you.

Exclusive to Mac OS X (sorry Windows users), Snapheal is described as an "amazing, first-of-its-kind photo application that lets you perform professional image enhancements in minutes, doesn’t require any special knowledge.", and I have to say, "it's a pretty amazing app".

Above: This photo was taken on my Fuji X-10 to test Snapheal. As you can see, it did a pretty good job of removing the unwanted foreground, and coped well with the 12 megapixel jpeg image, making it an ideal app for processing photos from your iPhone or any other digital camera.

Here is what Snapheal can do for you:

• Remove unwanted objects from the image
• Make skin imperfections vanish 
• Erase unwanted text (watermarks, etc)
• Dramatically enhance photos with clone & stamp tool 
• Lighten dark areas 
• Sharpen images 
• Add blur
• Adjust saturation, gamma, light levels, shadows and much more

Mac App Store Link: Snapheal; Sale Price: £6.99/$9.99/€7.79

Comments

[Lisa]

Looks like a great app to add to my growing collection of photo apps. Appears to be very user-friendly, too. Thanks for posting!

On an unrelated note -
Do you have a suggestion on a stylus that works well on an iPhone? In smaller areas of a photo, such as the fence removal demonstrated in above video, my chunky finger is not precise enough. I tried a Q-tip but for some reason it doesn't work. I need a stylus for more detailed photo app work.

Thanks!

[Nigel]

Unfortunately, I had to give this app 1 star in the app store. I am a professional photographer who has been looking for a quick way to do what this app says it's supposed to do, but this wasn't it. I spent quite a bit with the different tools trying to get rid of various items in photos that would be VERY easy in Photoshop (or even Lightroom, for that matter), but this app pretty much choked on most of it.

The other thing that bugged me considerably is that there were a myriad typos, misspellings and general grammar problems that were too much to bear (especially since it takes FOREVER to render your changes AND you have to view "fun" trivia throughout the whole process).

Sad, really.

[Kate]

VERY slow to render. I prefer Retouch on the iPad.

[Rashiq]

I think that it's disturbing that it can remove Watermarks. Am I being too paranoid ?

[aaronv2]

Please keep posting about iphonography and iphone apps. I would hate to see this turn into a blog that starts posting about anything rather than staying on topic. espeically if it becomes a mac fanboy blog.

[Glyn Evans]

@aaronv2, this type post will a rare one.

[ITechV]

ReTouch for the iPad and iPhone works well. Takes some practice but works similar.

V