TouchRetouch – Photo Retouching Application

TouchRetouch – Photo Retouching Application

Many of the times, it happens that we take a photograph and unwanted object comes into picture. Even if you take utmost care when taking a photo, there are times when an unwanted object comes in the way. Sometimes, you want to take a picture of the sky and various signboards and wires over your head come in the way to spoil your photo “otherwise”spectacular photos. Well, now I am going to introduce you to an application for an Android phone, that'll fix such problems in your photos, so stop worrying, your every photo is going to be “Perfect”.


TouchRetouch is an application available for both Android and iOS. This application will help you remove those unexpected unwanted objects from your photos. Someone kept a hand over your head in one of your photos? Don't worry. TouchRetouch will come to your rescue. That idiot guy/gal placed a finger in front of camera lens while taking photo? No problem, we'll cut his/her finger away. Lol. :-D


Here I'll explain a little on how to use the app, TouchRetouch:

1. Download TouchRetouch Free on your Android phone or iOS device. For Android: TouchRetouch Free.
   
   
   
2. Open TouchRetouch.
   
3. You'll have option to “Open photos from Folder” or “Take new photo from Camera”.
   
   
   
4. After choosing a photo, you need to select a tool, provided by app, for removing the unwanted things and change the tool size with the slider that's visible.
   

There are 2 tools for selection, Lasso tool and Brush tool. Brush tool allows more accurate selection.
When you are making the selection, a small window appears to show you what is being covered by your finger, a great thoughtful feature.

5. Selected area is shown in red color. You can make changes to the selected area with the Eraser tool. More precise selection of objects would result into more clearer final photo.
   
6. Press Start button (looks like an Arrow) to remove object from the photo.
   
   
   
7. Click on the Floppy icon to save the photo to your Gallery, or for sharing.

The free version of the app works great except that the resultant output is just about 0.5 megapixels. But that's good enough for print sizes upto 4x6 in.
Give it a try and say what do you think in comments..!!!

NOW AIRDROID 2 IS AVAILABLE WITH REMOTE CONNECTION OVER WEB & ANTI-THEFT FEATURES

In one of my blogs, I had mentioned about the features of Airdroid. That Airdroid users can wirelessly access manage and control almost all aspects of their smartphones and tablets from their favorite web browser. Airdroid is the best and had almost all the features, so that one can easily use all the applications of their smartphones and tablets through web browser. A few days ago, the developers announced an invite-only beta of the latest version of Airdroid i.e. Airdroid 2.

 

                                        

This Airdroid 2 comes with the ‘Remote Connection Mode’ that allows users to access their devices contents and features over the internet from anywhere in the world in addition to the existing Wi-Fi connection mode. So this Airdroid 2 eliminates the limitation of Airdroid that computer and mobile device should be on the same Wi-Fi network. Along with this, one more feature is added that it also brings remote camera access and a ‘Find Phone’ anti-theft feature.

The biggest feature i.e. the Remote Connection Mode grants the users to access all the Airdroid features from two different Wi-Fi networks. Like you are somewhere else connected to that particular Wi-Fi network and your device at home connected to your home Wi-Fi network and still you can access it through your Airdroid 2.

To use this Remote Connection mode, you will need a valid account to pair with the web and mobile clients together. As of, still now The Remote Connection mode allows transferring of data up to 20 MB in size, but it will allot 1GB of total data usage. Now to navigate through this the user has to log in to the app through a new domain http://v2.airdroid.com/ instead of web.airdroid.com or you may enter the Ip addresses on the Airdroid mobile app into your browsers URL bar. If you have the device with you, you can simply scan the QR code shown on the website to log in. You also can sign up for a new account using your Facebook, twitter, Google account. And once you are connected all is yours, you can perform the whole bunch supported tasks, that all remotely over the internet. You can stream your music and videos, view your gallery photos, manage all your phone logs, view contacts and messages, install apps etc.

Airdroid also now supports a new camera tool that can be used to remotely snapshots from your device’s camera. Once you click on the camera icon tool in your browser, the camera on your device will automatically get started and you are ready to capture live images with all the other options of zoom, pause, rotate. The images captured will be stored to Downloads files of your computer system.

One more feature is Find Phone which helps you to instantly track your Android device location on the map if you find tough looking after your mobile phone. Even if the device loses the internet access or get powers off, still you can see its last registered location. It has also some more features such as sounding the alarm, sending the text messages and remotely locking and wiping the device itself.

As the latest version is currently in beta, you can expect some features to be non-functional at this moment. But soon this will get completely functional with its final version. Airdroid soon will become the best remote device management tool for Android.