![]() ![]() While you’re dragging your finger around, in the upper left you get a magnified circle showing exactly what you’re selecting. It’s nice to make it more precise for smaller selections and ginormous when you want to remove something larger. There’s a Settings icon at the bottom with a single purpose, and that’s to give you a slider to change the size of the area selected as you drag around on screen. But I sure don’t have to wait at all to see whether the removal worked or not. I don’t know if it was a super slow phone, or if the software is much faster these days. I mention the speed because I was watching an older video on YouTube about TouchRetouch and there was a significant pause where the user had to wait until they could see the effect of their selection. On a nearly 2-year-old 12.9″ iPad Pro, the changes to the image happen nearly instantaneously. TouchRetouch removes the selected area and replaces it with the best match from the surrounding area. Once you’re happy with your selection, you can tap a green GO button that appeared on the bottom right as soon as you started selecting anything on screen. All of these actions are taken before your image is modified. ![]() In addition, there’s an icon for a lasso, and with that, you can simply encircle another area. With the eraser selected you can remove some of the green to change your selection. If you covered something unintended, one of the icons across the bottom is the eraser. If you want to select more on screen, you can lift your finger and drag over more of the area. As you drag your finger, TouchRetouch will display a green overlay showing you where you’ve selected. With brush, you smear around on the screen with your finger over unwanted objects, like that trashcan in the background of your beach photo. Highlighted will be an icon that says “brush” underneath (in 1 mm tall letters). Once you tap the Object Removal icon, you’ll get five new icons across the bottom. Let’s go through each of these options and see how well they perform and how easy they are to use. Ok, enough whining about apps that have fonts that are too small. I know I’m getting old, but even with my glasses that font is small! To put that in perspective, the smallest text I could see on my 5K display at its default resolution at Amazon was triple that size. The icons are pretty easily recognizable for their functions, which is a good thing because the font for the names is 1 mm tall. When you first open an image in TouchRetouch, you’ll see four icons across the bottom of the screen: I presume if you edit them you won’t be able to save back into the shared album, especially if you didn’t originally own the photo. You can also see your shared albums including images shared by other people. You can also navigate your Photos library via Apple-created smart albums, like Moments, Favorites, Selfies, Live Photos, Portrait, Panoramas, Bursts, and Screenshots (why do I have 2300 of those do you think?) I have an elaborate folder and album structure for my 70K+ Photos library and the entire structure was accessible inside TouchRetouch. If you tap on Albums, TouchRetouch will ask for permission to access your photos. The tutorials are excellent they’re short videos that demonstrate each feature so that in just a few minutes you can get the hang of how to use TouchRetouch. ![]() When you open TouchRetouch you’ll see two big round buttons in the middle of the screen: one takes you to your albums in Photos, the other is tutorials on how to use the app. There’s even a more advanced version for the Mac for $15, but that won’t be the subject of this review – perhaps for another day. TouchRetouch is $1.99 for iPad and another $1.99 for iPhone/iPod Touch. The app I turn to for these kinds of edits on iOS is called TouchRetouch from Adva-Soft. How about a favorite teenager going through a difficult skin year and you want them to look their best? Have you ever taken a photo of a gorgeous sunset, only to look at the photo later and realize there’s a power line in the photo? Or maybe you’ve got a great shot of your child playing in the sand on the beach but you didn’t notice there’s a trash can prominently showing in the background. Let’s lay out a few problems to be solved. The darling of photo editing on iOS and Android is Snapseed but for some reason, it just doesn’t fit the way that my brain works. Sometimes you just need to fix a small problem in a photo, not create artwork. You know I’m wild about Affinity Photo for iPad but it’s a sledgehammer of an app. Now that we take so many of our photos with our mobile devices, it’s even more important that we have good editing tools that fit the interface of a mobile operating system. ![]()
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