TouchRetouch: Professionally Remove Unwanted Content From Your Android phone Photos

Ever taken a photo of something breathtaking, but found later that something snuck in your shot? Or maybe you have seen a stunning landscape but there is some random house in the background. Well now you can remove anything that should not be in a picture with TouchRetouch, an app thats very simple to use, with a user-friendly interface. It basically brings Photoshop CS5 context-sensitive fill to your handset.

Available @ Android Market!

TouchRetouch  price: $0.99

Interface

When you run the app you get to choose whether to retouch a photo from your gallery or take a fresh picture from your default camera app.

TouchRetouch Start Screen

Once you’ve selected your picture from the gallery you will need to choose at what resolution to edit the picture. Depending on the size of the original image there are different options. In my case, I only have Original and Low.

Select your image and resolution

The application will now load the photo and a number of tools are provided to retouch your photos:

• Lasso
• Brush
• Clone Stamp
• Go!

These are tools made especially for retouching. I will explain how each retouch tool works below.
The are also a few other buttons for miscellaneous actions:

• Load Image
• Undo
• Redo
• Info
• Move
• Eraser
• Save

Interface Buttons

Retouching tools

Lasso

The Lasso tool works like any lasso tool in any major photo manipulation software. You draw a shape and it fills it out by connecting the first and last two points with a a straight line. This tool is perfect to use when you need to cover bigger objects.

Brush

The Brush tool is pretty self-explanatory. You can adjust its size and brush away!

Clone Stamp

The Clone Stamp tool resembles the clone stamp tool from the application desktop brothers. Its basically a brush that takes the color from the picture itself. You set a source and then using the brush part of the clone stamp you paint over the wanted area. Pretty basic and simple.

Go!

As you might have noticed when you use the Lasso and Brush tools you will get a red area where you painted over. Once you’ve marked all the spots you want to remove from your picture, you press the Go! button and the application retouches your photo. Usually the application does a good job retouching. There are some cases when a second round of retouching is needed, but that happens rarely.

Misc Tools

The name of the miscellaneous tools tells the whole story and I don’t think there is a need to explain each one what does. The only exception is the Eraser tool which erases not the photo, but the red areas that are drawn with the Brush and Lasso tools.

Before and After

Below is an image that I have retouched. I am pleased with the results. It was raining after a very hot day, and the steam that came up from the ground created a pretty foggy looking landscape. The only problem with the shot was the cars, but TouchRetouch did a pretty good job removing them.

Before & After

Info and Settings

When you tap the Info button you are taken to the Info menu. Here you can find the application’s Settings, Video tutorials, Help Section and Support Section. There are a few settings and they really don’t need much explanation.

Settings

The application offers two tutorials (Basic and Advanced). These are very helpful and a very good starting point to learn how to use the app. I found them very useful, as I really had no idea how to use the application at first.

In the Help menu you will find everything about the application. Every button and feature of TouchRetouch is explained in detail and you will even get a history of retouching.

Video Below!