Automatically erase unwanted elements from photos with new Movavi Photo Editor

June 10, 2014 - PRLog -- How many times have you been upset with people standing in the middle your picturesque landscape or photobombing your carefully composed portrait? With Movavi Photo Editor, there’s no need to learn complex photo editing applications to get rid of undesirable elements in their shots. Photo Editor is perfect for eliminating unwanted areas like skin problems on close-up portraits, people or ships in the water, shadows on the ground, or other objects you don’t want to have in your photos. Users simply select the target element – a shadow, a person in the background, some spots on a face – and it will be erased from the photo and replaced with surrounding image elements as if by magic.

This focus on a single task means that the software is intuitive and easy-to-use. Once a photo has been added, users will find two familiar tools for selecting a specific area: a Brush and a Lasso; these are used for automatic editing. After selecting the area to clean up and hitting the Start Erasing button, users will see the selected area replaced with other elements from the surrounding area through the use of special algorithms.

For users wanting to do more precise manual editing, the Clone stamp tool is preferable. By selecting the Diameter and Source distance, you can replace certain parts of your photo with others by cloning or point-by-point replacement.

As for performance, it takes Photo Editor just a few seconds to process relatively small selections, so the average editing session will take about 20 seconds including the time spent on opening a file, selecting the area for retouch and erasing it.

Movavi Photo Editor supports more than 26 input and output graphic formats: BMP, DPX, EXR, GIF (not animated), JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG-LS, PAM, PBM, PCX, PGM, PGMYUV, PIC, PIX, PNG, PPM, PTX, SGI, Sun Rasterfile, TIFF,Truevision Targa, WebP, XBM, XFace, and XWD.

Additional editing features will be introduced in future iterations of the software; a Mac version will be available shortly.

Price and Availability

A trial version of Movavi Photo Editor can be downloaded for free from www.movavi.com/photosuite. While the trial version has no time restrictions, it does not allow users to save edited images. A personal license for the spftware can be purchased from the Movavi website for $29.95 (http://www.movavi.com/photosuite/buynow.html).

System Requirements

Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8 with latest patches/service packs installed

Intel or AMD or compatible processors, 1 GHz

Display resolution of 1024x768, 32-bit color

256 MB RAM for Windows XP, 512 MB for Vista, 1 GB for Windows 7 and Windows 8

Minimum 150 MB free hard disk space for installation, 1 GB for ongoing operations