Adobe Systems has come up with a proto-app or two that lets you delete meddlesome, photobombing tourists from your photos — all on the average mobile phone.
While there are techniques for Photoshop users can harness to erase photobombers from their pics — most prevalently, amalgamating multiple shots of the same subject(s) — the software company's new prototypes streamline the process, and Adobe Systems is presenting them at Adobe MAX 2015.
Named "Monument Mode," the first app parses video footage of whatever is in the frame and separates transient subjects from stationary ones: for example, roving pedestrians from one or more persons posing for a photo and the buildings in the background. The smartphone app then takes the moving, non-permanent subjects and erases them from the photo, giving the user a cleaner, de-cluttered shot.
Monument Mode is part of a larger line of recently-developed features and apps — called the "Sneaks" project — specifically made for smartphones, tablets and other non-desktop or laptop devices, a corner of the market in which the company has been scrambling to gain a secure foothold. Another like-minded feature in their new line-up is a photobomb-defusing tool — aptly named "Defusing Photobombs" — detects possible distracting bystanders, ranks them and then lets the user cut the biggest offender out with a simple slider.
While these proto-apps and more were presented at MAX, not all of them will come to fruition; as the term "prototype" suggests, some of them might be shelved or repurposed for future products. As for which will make the cut? We'll have to wait and see.
Get a sneek peak at Adobe's Monument Mode in the clip below.
Via: CNET
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