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Cleaning photos

Can aperture remove unwanted parts of a photo, people, objects etc?

iMac 24" 3.06, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Oct 5, 2013 4:07 AM

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Posted on Oct 5, 2013 8:56 AM

Aperture is not really designed for do those types of modifications to an image.


You can get rid of small objects, say a soda can floating in water, using the clone brush but larger structures and people will be really hard if not impossible.


For those types of modifications you really need a true image editor like PS or GIMP a free image editor much like PS. There is also Pixelmator in the Mac App Store. It's $15 US and has gotten good reviews though I've never used it myself.


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Oct 5, 2013 8:56 AM in response to oldmovieguy

Aperture is not really designed for do those types of modifications to an image.


You can get rid of small objects, say a soda can floating in water, using the clone brush but larger structures and people will be really hard if not impossible.


For those types of modifications you really need a true image editor like PS or GIMP a free image editor much like PS. There is also Pixelmator in the Mac App Store. It's $15 US and has gotten good reviews though I've never used it myself.


regards

Oct 6, 2013 9:31 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

I use Snapheal Pro for this. Works as a plug-in which is a huge deal for me. I can do the same thing in PS or Pixelmator, but with SHP I can just paint over the area, choose the level of rendering accuracy, and... voila, a nice finished product with whatever removed and a really smart algorithm to fill in with the adjacent scenery.

Oct 6, 2013 9:53 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

You can get rid of small objects, say a soda can floating in water,


A great example 😀


I like Inpaint to remove unwanted objects. It does really a great job at replacing objects by a random texture (computed from other parts of the image) that blends in nicely with the background, without any aliasing or other obvious, noticeable artifacts.

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