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Remove unwanted objects from your pictures
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Rainer Follador

TouchRemove - Remove unwanted objects from your pictures

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TouchRemove is an Android app to quickly remove annoying objects from your photos. Mask and remove annoying powerlines, tourists, objects etc. easily.

The algorithm (content-aware fill) automatically fills and paints the masked area.

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Josh Lewis!
I'd love to see an iOS version.
Chris Staines
@joshlewis TouchRetouch has been around for a while for iOS.
Josh Lewis!
@poet But not this particular app, just similar apps, right?
Chris Staines
@joshlewis Correct. Just similar name and, well, purpose.
Rainer Follador
Maker
Some more details for the technical minded people: The used algorithm is based on PatchMatch, one of the best known in-painting-algorithms (a variant of it is also used in Photoshop). I implemented the algorithm in Renderscript, which gives a massive speed boost over plain Java. Contact me if you have any questions.
Krishna De
Just downloaded on my Android - tried to load your example and getting an error message @r_follador
Rainer Follador
Maker
@krishnade Thanks for giving it a try! There were some problems regarding the permission of third-party gallery apps. Should be fixed now, can you update?
Krishna De
@r_follador Thanks for letting me know - I updated it and I can access the example image
Rainer Follador
Maker
@krishnade Awesome, good to hear! Let me know what you think about the app; points of improvement etc.
Krishna De
@r_follador From my initial tests it was really fast and intuitive - I need to check out your tutorial. One thing I could not work out is where I see 'open recent projects' will it hold past edits on the phone in the app as I could not see how to delete?
Rainer Follador
Maker
@krishnade It will only hold the last edit, in case you close it. There's no way yet to save multiple edits.
Michael Lewis
Erasing a background is useful. But extracting cutouts from images is even more useful. Could you use your algorithm to parse an image into layers?
Rainer Follador
Maker
@lew42dotcom cool idea, I'll have to think about it...
January Edward
I'm so excited to try this
David Alejandro

Tried this app with a photo and it didn't work at all, it left a mess where the object was. Tried a free alternative on the same photo and it worked to perfection. Uninstalled this one immediately.

Pros:

None really.

Cons:

Didn't work.

Rainer Follador
Maker
Any feedback is appreciated!
Brendan Hersh
@r_follador Any plans for an iPhone version? Looks like a very useful app!
Rainer Follador
Maker
@brendanhersh no plans yet, but I'll keep you posted
Pete
Awesome work 😁
Rainer Follador
Maker
@petecodes thanks!
Max R.
Nice idea
Brandon Mount

Very nice, great job Dev!

Pros:

Simple to use

Cons:

Finer tool would be nice

Rainer Follador
Maker
Thank you for your review. I'm thinking about including a zoom insert while painting to allow for finer handling.
Tony Brix

Might help to consult an app designer, but it works impressively.

Pros:

It works

Cons:

Could use a style guide

Kazi Mehedi Hasan
Did a compare with Snapseed, seems like Snapseed is the winner btw good job.