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  • Remove App Lets You Clear Unwanted Clutter From Your Photos

    Remove App Lets You Clear Unwanted Clutter From Your Photos

    Could this be the end of the photobomb?

    A new camera app promises to make taking that perfect photo easier than ever, without the complications of heavy Photoshopping. It’s called Remove and comes from Scalado, a Swedish company known for their camera technology.

    With Remove, you can take a photo without having to wait for the perfect moment – like waiting until that awkward guy walking behind your target goes by. Remove allows users to manually erase unwanted objects from their photos with a couple of quick taps to your smartphone screen.

    When you snap a photo using the app, Remove actually takes a bunch of quick captures successively, analyzes the images, and makes a composite photo. You can then use that to quickly remove objects that you don’t want – like that passing car in the background or that annoying friend giving you bunny-ears.

    Check out a demo of the technology in action:

    The app is still in its prototype phase, but is expected to be revealed at Mobile World Congress later this month. Unfortunately for iPhone users, this app is currently only for Android phones.

    There are quite a few skeptics of the technology currently commenting on YouTube, to which the top-voted comment attempts to explain away any trepidations:

    For you skeptics: It’s actually recording the whole time, and when you click, it just uses a few frames before (and maybe after) your picture to fill in the background where you want to ‘erase’ people from. You already pause for a second or so before you click, lining it up & waiting for the person(s) to be ready. The software just has to do a ‘difference’ filter to find things that changed between frames, and overwrite those areas in your final photo with data from the adjacent shots.

    The only concern with Remove that I can think of is probable ineffectiveness in the removal of relatively still images in the background of photos. But the app definitely looks like it will be rather popular.

    Engadget actually got a hands on of the prototype and gave it a pretty good review, saying that apart from “occasional issues with the responsiveness of the UI and a couple minor bugs,” Remove is “relatively intuitive and works rather well for a prototype.”

    What do you think? Let us know in the comments.

  • iPhone 5 Rumor: First Photo From The New Device?

    A wild iPhone 5 photo appears! More specifically, a photo supposedly taken from an iPhone 5. If accurate, this would be the first pic ever taken from the upcoming device to make its way to the internet – as well as the most famous uni and salmon sushi pic of all time.

    Pocketnow thinks that they’ve stumbled upon the first known photo taken with an iPhone 5, cleverly labeled as “taken with an iPhone 4.” Not so fast, they say –

    This (very attractive) photo claims to have been taken by an iPhone 4, but the rest of its EXIF data tells a different story: although the image has been cropped to 2235×2291 (5.12 megapixels), the original picture was a much larger 3264×2448 — or just shy of eight megapixels. What’s more, the lens was recorded as a 4.3mm f/2.4, which is closer to that of a point-and-shoot than the iPhone 4’s actual 3.85mm f/2.8. (Remember that the upcoming HTC Runnymede is said to have an aperture of f/2.2.)

    Basically, this photo was taken with a much better camera than exists in any current iPhone model. Once of the earliest and most persistent iPhone 5 rumors has been the addition of an 8 megapixel camera. Here’s the sushi pic in question –

    Not only that, but the geotagged location of the photo is 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, sticking this plate of sushi smack dab in the middle of Apple’s campus. Perhaps an eager staffer documenting his lunch with a brand new iPhone?

    Or a manipulated photo? Of course the EXIF data could have been misrepresented and the geo data could have been faked. But the evidence as is suggests that we might be looking at what photos will look like when taken by the iPhone 5.

    And it looks pretty good, am I right?