Quick Fix: Remove unwanted objects from your photos with TouchRetouch

Above: The retouched photo, which has also been given the Camera+ "Clarity" treatment.Whilst on my recent trip to Egypt I took a series of photos using QuickPix in rapid fire mode, whilst sat along side the driver of our horse and carriage. More concerned about my safety than the photos I was taken, I just pointed the iPhone in the general direction of what I wanted to shoot, kept my finger on the QuickPix shutter button, and hoped for the best. The resulting series of photos I got were great, depicting Egyptian street life in a natural and unposed way, but sadly many of the photos suffered from what would normally be classed as a school boy error, finger over the lens syndrome. Yes, more concerned with staying aloft the carriage, my finger founds its way in to the corners of some of my shots, but thanks to TouchRetouch, not all was lost.

Above: The original untouched, finger over the lens shot.

With TouchRetouch, I was able to load each photo that I wanted to salvage and quickly and easily remove my finger. Using the hand icon to pinch and zoom in to the affected area, and then the brush tool to highlight the finger, it was only a case of tapping the clapper icon to let TouchRetouch do its magic.

For all the photos I needed/wanted to salvage, TouchRetouch did a great job, and whilst the app can't guarantee to cope with all object removals, I've yet to have a photo that I haven't been able to salvage, so if you are in need of an object removal app for your iPhone or iPad, then why not give TouchRetouch [App Store Link] a try, after all it's only £0.59/$0.99/€0.79.

Comments

[Broadway]

Tried this on the iPad. Pretty amazing. Was able to remove part of an oriental rug pattern, some flowers that appeared to grow out of a person's ear, other small objects. This is the best of these "object removal" tools I've seen, including some on the desktop.

[Mark Harrison]

This is one of my favorite apps. I've used it to remove all kinds of things. I consider this easily one of my top 5 must-have photo apps.

[Torg]

I typically don't review or comment on many things.. but all I can say on this one is WOW. Nice work. It's impressive.

[AlyZen Moonshadow]

Thanks to Touch Retouch I no longer worry about snapping imperfect photos, as I know I'll be able to remove blemishes, unwanted objects etc easily. Apart from having some trouble with a "wandering" Clone stamp, this App is a Godsend.

[Jakk Ogden]

That's an interesting app. If you would have told me to stare at image 1, and find anything out of place, I wouldn't have been able to find it. On the contrary though when I saw image 2 it was obvious to me that the lighting isn't perfect in image one, however the app does a good job at removing objects.

[Constance]

A must app for every iPhoneographer's bag! ;) I've used it zoomed in for the tiniest of imperfections and it works a treat!

[tazm0n]

Been using this app since about the time it came out and it keeps getting better. I'm always amazed how well it works. Basically as good and Photoshop CS5's fill feature on default settings- that's powerful for a phone app!