Our Verdict
Chances are , you ’ve accept more than a few photo littered with unwanted objects — or even people — that you ’d rather off from the scene . ( Sorry random pedestrian , but I ’d favor if you were n’t in my kinfolk barb atCoit Tower . ) Macphun’sSnapheal(Mac App Store link ) is a Mac program that lets you do just that with a few throw and clicks .
Snapheal sports an interface interchangeable to that of Macphun ’s other Mac apps , Color Splash Studio ( ) andFX Photo Studio ( ) , with the photo - editing area to the left and your editing tools to the right field . The app is uncomplicated to use and easy to navigate , and features five redaction tools : Erase ; Clone and Stamp ; Retouch ; Adjust ; Crop ; and Rotate / Flip . ( Even though erase undesired physical object from photos is the primal feature , users can also perform basic simulacrum edits using Snapheal . )
We latterly looked at Inpaint ( ) , another Mac app that lets you remove object from a exposure . While Inpaint is less than half the toll of Snapheal , Inpaint is a one - joke pony — you paint over a selected area and get across Erase . The only adjustment you’re able to make is in brush size of it . Snapheal put up a bit more .
In my testing of Snapheal , the Erase tool worked clean 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 may also make more - finely controlled edits . For object lesson , you could adjust the brush diameter , unselect painted surface area , and choose between three eraser modality : Wormhole , best for small imperfections and objects ; Shapeshift , for big objective ; and Twister , for sky shot and multiple belittled object . ( I recommend try out to see which eraser mode works well — you could always undo an expunging you do n’t like . For instance , at times I preferred the Wormhole mode over the Twister mode for erasing an objective from the sky , even though both did the job effectively . )
Each of the erasing modes works as the app describes ; the actual erase routine ( the most CPU - intensive part of the procedure ) happens quickly . And even if you ’re waiting for the app to erase a peculiarly large object , you ’ll be entertain by the Erase advancement window , which expose merriment facts such as , “ There are more than 250,000 rivers in the United States , which amounts to more than 3.5 million air mile of river . ” In general , Snapheal works well , although it is n’t always arrant , as you may see in the range above — specifically , the desk corner just behind the bump off physical object .
Once you ’re done erasing object , you may do childlike edits right in the program . Snapheal ’s Retouch tab lets you selectively edit division of an image for contrast , chroma , sharpness , blur , and brightness . you could make full - photo adjustments using the app ’s Adjust tool , which includes the same editing choice as Retouch , as well as luger for color temperature , hue , saturation , shadower , highlights , and noise . And a Clone and Stamp tool lets you could make fairly detailed reparation when Snapheal ’s erasures are n’t perfect .
Once you ’re wind up , you could preserve your epitome to your computer , partake it via e-mail , or post it to Facebook , Tumblr , Flickr , or Twitter .
Macphun make the weighty call that Snapheal “ can do magic trick . ” The app largely live up to that claim , offering a simple way to remove object from an image — you do n’t need to do it anything about exposure editing to know how to use Snapheal . If you have Photoshop , which includes a Content - Aware fill feature of speech that accomplishes the same task , Snapheal is probable not for you . But for those who do n’t own Adobe ’s advanced — and wallet - denting — editing software package , Snapheal is an fantabulous alternative .
( Note : Snapheal is normally $ 20 , but it ’s currently on sale for $ 10 . )
