{"id":29338,"date":"2023-09-08T17:18:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T00:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=29338"},"modified":"2023-09-08T18:10:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T01:10:16","slug":"touchretouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/touchretouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Object-Aware Image Fixing with TouchRetouch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2018, I told you about a tool called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/touchretrouch-ios\/\">TouchRetouch for iOS from ADVA Soft<\/a>.  The problem to be solved is that you\u2019ve taken a great photo, but there are things in the photo you\u2019d like to remove. In the last five years, it\u2019s come a very long way. Late last year I created a ScreenCastsONLINE tutorial about TouchRetouch but I realized that I never gave the NosillaCast audience a full explanation of everything TouchRetouch can do.<\/p>\n<p>We already have the Retouch tool in Apple Photos for Mac which does a pretty good job of removing blemishes from faces, but it\u2019s limited in its capability and it\u2019s not available on your iPhone or iPad. You can get more advanced tools such as <a href=\"https:\/\/affinity.serif.com\/en-us\/photo\/\">Affinity Photo<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pixelmator.com\/pro\/\">Pixelmator Pro<\/a>, which both have terrific tools for removing unwanted things from images, but they\u2019re applications designed to do a myriad of things to images and so have a steep learning curve. TouchRetouch is designed to do one thing and one thing well.<\/p>\n<h1>Pricing<\/h1>\n<p>Before we dig into learning about TouchRetouch, let\u2019s talk about pricing.  While the app is available for macOS for a flat price of $14.99, I don\u2019t recommend you buy it. If you don\u2019t yet have an Apple Silicon Mac and you don\u2019t have an iPhone or Android phone or an iPad, then maybe consider it.  All of the love from the developers has been poured into their mobile app and it\u2019s so far ahead of the Mac desktop app that it\u2019s not even worth me telling you about it.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a mobile device, even on a small screen, the mobile app is fantastic. I\u2019ll be explaining why it works so well on the small screen. If you have an Apple Silicon Mac, the iOS version of TouchRetouch will work on your Mac and again, is so much more capable than the dedicated Mac app.<\/p>\n<p>Now here\u2019s the catch. The mobile app is a subscription service. I know, I\u2019m tired of subscriptions too, but this is where we are now. We have to decide between subscriptions for just about everything these days.  Luckily the price isn\u2019t high, and if you find you\u2019re using it often, I think it will be worth the price.<\/p>\n<p>The folks at ADVA Soft are great and very responsive but they make it tricky to figure out the pricing. They have a blog post about it but it\u2019s on Medium (which I think is a weird place to put it) so I wrote to them directly and asked for the pricing and they got back to me immediately. I\u2019ll give you the full description of what they sent but I think I can say it more simply.<\/p>\n<p>You can try it out for free but can only export one image per day. If you want to buy it, it\u2019s $15\/year. If you already bought it when it was standalone, you can keep using it without losing anything, but you won\u2019t get the new features. If you want to upgrade to the subscription, they\u2019ll cut you a deal at half price for the first year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Retouch Free (for new users)<\/strong> > Users can use all the app\u2019s features and tools, but with one limitation \u2013 only one photo export per day is allowed (no payments are made)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Retouch Plus (Yearly Plan \u2013 for new users)<\/strong> > No limitations on the app usage (14.99 $\/year (prices may vary across different countries)); three-day trial is offered<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Retouch Core (for those who already bought the app when it was a paid app)<\/strong> \u2013 Users can keep using all the features they previously paid for with no restrictions; users can try out new (premium) features but cannot export photos with those features applied to them (no additional charges will be made)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Retouch Plus (Yearly Plan \u2013 for our loyal users)<\/strong> > a yearly subscription with a 50% discount for the first year of use<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One more thing &#8211; TouchRetouch is in Family Sharing so if you have family members who might like to use it, that makes the subscription a bit easier to accept, and remember it will work on your Apple Silicon Mac without the $15 one-time app.  Ok, we\u2019ve eaten our vegetables, let\u2019s talk about how to use TouchRetouch and how amazing it is!<\/p>\n<h1>First Launch<\/h1>\n<p>When you first launch TouchRetouch, it shows one simple button in the middle inviting you to Open Gallery.  This button will reveal the standard photo picker from Apple Photos (after you give it permission of course).  Unlike some apps, you don\u2019t necessarily have to scroll through your thousands of photos, you can view albums, and you can search. I name a lot of my photos and it uses those titles for search along with the standard people and places options built into Photos.<\/p>\n<p>For the different tools in TouchRetouch, I\u2019ll use images that show off the particular category of tools, I\u2019m going to start with a photo I took down at the beach. The Santa Monica mountains are in the background with a nice white surf coming in, and there\u2019s a delightful lifeguard station painted in rainbow colors. The only problem is that there are four ugly trashcans along the sand ruining the photo. I\u2019d like to remove them.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"float: center; margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/trash-cans-on-beach.jpeg\" alt=\"Trash cans on beach\"  title=\"trash cans on beach.jpeg\" width=\"338 \" height=\"600\"><figcaption style=\"text-align:center\">Great shot, but those trash cans wreck it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Below the image are five tool categories. Objects, Lines, Meshes, Clone Stamp, and blur. You\u2019ll find it handy to pinch to zoom in and out as you work on your image.  For our icky trash cans, we\u2019ll use the Objects tools. Once I select Objects, I see four specific tools: Brush, Lasso, Eraser, and Settings.<\/p>\n<h1>Object-Aware Retouching<\/h1>\n<p>TouchRetouch has what they call object-aware retouching &#8211; meaning that their algorithms recognize objects you\u2019re trying to remove as being different from things that are near them. If you select the Brush tool within Objects, you\u2019ll notice that there are Settings for the tool. The obvious setting is to change the size of the selection brush with a slider, but you can also enable their people-aware algorithm.  I haven\u2019t done a test of people and other objects to test how it works with and without this setting enabled, but if you don\u2019t get the effect you wanted I\u2019d give this setting a try.<\/p>\n<p>After selecting the Brush tool, if you\u2019ve just got small blemishes on your image, you can simply tap on the screen to remove them but for bigger objects like big ol\u2019 ugly trash cans, you\u2019ll need to draw over the object.<\/p>\n<p>When you drag your finger over an unwanted object, your finger obscures the thing you\u2019re trying to select. With TouchRetouch, as soon as you start to finger paint like this, you\u2019ll see a square in the corner reflecting exactly what you can\u2019t see under your finger. It shows bright green where you\u2019ve painted, and a crosshair showing the center of your finger touch. On an iPhone, you don\u2019t need to mess with this little viewer, but on a big iPad, you may find it useful to drag it around so it\u2019s closer to where you\u2019re coloring.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"float: center; margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Trash-can-painted-over-and-viewer-showing-in-upper-left.jpeg\" alt=\"Trash can painted over and viewer showing in upper left\"  title=\"Trash can painted over and viewer showing in upper left.jpeg\" width=\"338 \" height=\"600\"><figcaption style=\"text-align:center\">Viewer in upper left helps you see what you&#8217;re selecting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As you select one or more areas in this way, in the bottom right you\u2019ll see a button that says \u201cGo\u201d. Use that button to remove the objects. For trash cans on sand, TouchRetouch does a great job of removal. You know that the success of apps like this is highly dependent on the subject. I find that TouchRetouch does a really good job in general but I can\u2019t say that it doesn\u2019t fail in the hardest examples.<\/p>\n<p>On-screen, before you select anything, you\u2019ll see a button that says \u201cMan\u201d which means we\u2019ve been in manual removal mode. If tapping Go after selection is more work than you want, tap Man and it will change to AUTO. Now every time you let go from making a selection it will instantly disappear.<\/p>\n<h1>Restore and Reapply<\/h1>\n<p>On trickier objects than dark trashcans on beige sand, your selection might be bigger than necessary and have some adverse effects. Rather than undoing and trying again, TouchRetouch lets you edit your selection with Restore and Reapply. Right after you erase an object with your big, fat finger, the Restore icon will be automatically selected.  If you select and hold on Restore, you\u2019ll see the object you just erased reappear. This gives you a visual queue of what you want to restore. Wherever you drag around with the Retore tool will be \u2026 well \u2026 restored just like it says on the tin.<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re using the Restore tool, you\u2019ll see a new tool arrive in the toolbox below called Reapply. You can toggle back and forth between these two tools refining your selection until it meets your satisfaction.<\/p>\n<h2>Settings<\/h2>\n<p>When you\u2019re working with the Brush, Erase,  Restore, and Reapply tools, Settings in the toolbox will allow you to change the size of these weapons. But that\u2019s not all. You can change the weapon of choice, and you can also change the hardness, opacity, and whether the tool is edge-aware.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"float: center; margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Settings-for-eraser.jpeg\" alt=\"Settings for eraser\"  title=\"Settings for eraser.jpeg\" width=\"338 \" height=\"600\"><figcaption style=\"text-align:center\">Settings for Eraser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lower the opacity if you\u2019d like to show some of the removed object. Decrease the hardness if you\u2019d like to have a fuzzy edge to the brush to fade in\/out the effect. Edge awareness will attempt to find the edge of the object being removed.<\/p>\n<h1>Eraser<\/h1>\n<p>I mentioned the Eraser tool before I explained what it does. It\u2019s pretty simple. If you\u2019re in the manual mode and you\u2019ve painted over something, you can immediately erase some of that painting rather than applying the removal and then doing the Restore\/Reapply dance.<\/p>\n<h1>Lasso<\/h1>\n<p>We also have a lasso tool that works much like the brush tool and may be an easier tool when you have a large, easily-defined object to remove. I can grab an entire trashcan in one scribble.  Like the Brush, I can Restore and Reapply or use the eraser tool.<\/p>\n<h1>Compare Before and After<\/h1>\n<p>At any time while you\u2019re working, you can compare before and after your object removal using a tiny icon in the upper right. I don\u2019t know about you, but it always humors me to see the before and after view, especially if I\u2019ve removed people!<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned an undo button &#8211; if you tap and hold on the undo button you can revert your image to the original if you\u2019ve messed it up too much and want to start over.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"float: center; margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Beach-without-trash-cans.jpeg\" alt=\"Beach without trash cans\"  title=\"Beach without trash cans.jpeg\" width=\"338 \" height=\"600\"><figcaption style=\"text-align:center\">Trash cans be gone!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Export<\/h1>\n<p>In the far upper right, you can see an up arrow to export your photo. You can save the image as a copy back into your Photos Library or you can modify the original. You can open the image in another application, or copy it to the clipboard.<\/p>\n<p>Under the thumbnail of your image, if you\u2019ve been working on a Live Photo it warns you that this modified image will be saved as a Still image.  You also have a dropdown to change the format and resolution of the export. If you have preferred settings for all exports, you can save the current settings as the default.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s say you\u2019re still working on your image and you don\u2019t want to lose your changes, but you forget how to do something in TouchRetouch or you want to change a global setting. You can use the backward chevron to change settings and learn about the tools with tips and little tutorials, and when you select Done you can continue back to work on your image.<\/p>\n<h1>Lines<\/h1>\n<p>Object removal is table stakes for an application like this, and TouchRetouch meets that requirement. Where I think it shines is how easily it removes lines.<\/p>\n<p>I take a lot of photographs on walks in my neighborhood, and the power lines always ruin my photos.  But with TouchRetouch I can quickly open a photo, remove the power lines, and post my image to my friends all from my iPhone while on my walk. I took a photo last Halloween of this awesome ghost in someone\u2019s front yard against the bright blue sky with the sun shining through behind it \u2026 but the tethers to hold it up and the powerlines behind it ruin the image.<\/p>\n<div class=\"group figure-center\">\n<figure style=\"float: left; \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Ghost-before-fixing-with-bright-white-tether-line.jpeg\" alt=\"Ghost before fixing with bright white tether line\"  title=\"Ghost before fixing with bright white tether line.jpeg\" width=\"250 \" height=\"\"><figcaption style=\"text-align:center\">Tether on the right is distracting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"float: left; \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Line-is-now-selected-in-TouchRetouch.jpeg\" alt=\"Line is now selected in TouchRetouch\"  title=\"Line is now selected in TouchRetouch.jpeg\" width=\"250 \" height=\"\"><figcaption style=\"text-align:center\">Line is selected<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"float: left; \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Line-is-gone.jpeg\" alt=\"Line is gone\"  title=\"Line is gone.jpeg\" width=\"250 \" height=\"\"><figcaption style=\"text-align:center\">Line is gone that easily<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>I\u2019ll select the Lines category to fix these problems. At the bottom of the screen are four tools: Line, Segment, Restore, and Settings. I\u2019ll explain the difference between Line and Segment in a moment.<\/p>\n<p>I can zoom in on any of the lines, especially the bright white tether line that ruins the illusion, and drag my big, fat finger along just part of the line and when I let go, the entire thing disappears. Seriously, it\u2019s more magical than the ghost herself.  This line I erased in my example goes across the sky, some stonework on the front of the house, and across green shrubbery and it did a remarkably good job.<\/p>\n<p>If for some reason I wasn\u2019t completely happy with the erasure of the line, hitting the back button reveals some interesting options. There\u2019s a slider to change the line thickness of the selection, and it shows you the control points it used to interpret the wiggly line you actually drew. You can move these control points around to more accurately clean up the line removal. You can even add more points by tapping if you think it will help, and if you tap on any existing control points they disappear. Hit Go again to see if the line removal looks any cleaner.<\/p>\n<p>You may have figured out by now that since the Line tool removes an entire line even when you only draw over part of it, the Segment tool starts and stops removal right where you draw.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m astonished at how well this works on a tiny iPhone screen. The Adva Soft developers have made it feel natural and easy to use a finger to clean up images.<\/p>\n<h1>Mesh<\/h1>\n<p>I told you that the line removal tool is magical, but TouchRetouch has a tool that\u2019s even crazier called Mesh. TouchRetouch can remove things like chain link fences!<\/p>\n<p>If you open an image with any kind of mesh in front of it, a simple tap on the Mesh category will cause TouchRetouch to instantly scan the image searching for any mesh it can find in the image. If it finds a mesh, it will highlight what it found in green.<\/p>\n<div class=\"group figure-center\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ChainLinkFenceRuinsTheImage.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Chain-link-fence-ruins-the-image.jpeg\" alt=\"Chain link fence ruins the image\"  title=\"Chain link fence ruins the image.jpeg\" width=\"250 \" height=\"\"><figcaption style=\"text-align:center\">Chain link fence has to go<\/br>Click to Embiggen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ChainLinkFenceSelectedByMeshTool.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Chain-link-fence-selected-by-Mesh-tool.jpeg\" alt=\"Chain link fence selected by Mesh tool\"  title=\"Chain link fence selected by Mesh tool.jpeg\" width=\"250 \" height=\"\"><figcaption style=\"text-align:center\">Chain link fence selected by Mesh tool<\/br>Click to Embiggen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ChainLinkFenceGone.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Chain-link-fence-is-gone.jpeg\" alt=\"Chain link fence is gone\"  title=\"Chain link fence is gone.jpeg\" width=\"250 \" height=\"\"><figcaption style=\"text-align:center\">Buhbye chain link fence<\/br>Click to Embiggen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The tools will also change to add a slider for Selection Accuracy in case the Mesh tool misinterpreted the mesh selection. When you press Go, you\u2019ll see the image being processed and it can take quite a few seconds because it\u2019s doing a <em>lot<\/em> of math!<\/p>\n<p>It looks pretty good but let\u2019s zoom in again and see how good it looks up close. As I pan around, I\u2019ll tap the restore button to see where the fence was before to check for any problems in the image.<\/p>\n<p>I tried the Mesh tool on a particularly challenging image. There were some Halloween ghouls behind a fence, but worse yet there was a chain link fence <em>behind<\/em> them as well.  In a few very small spots TouchRetouch made a few mistakes where the fences overlapped in the image, but it is not anything anyone would notice unless they were pixel-peeping the image.<\/p>\n<p>I know that the developers have been putting a lot of work into TouchRetouch because I used this same image to teach the app for a ScreenCastsONLINE tutorial last year. In the tutorial, when the fence was selected by the Mesh tool, I remember that a skeleton in the background had part of his head removed. I made a joke that I wanted to leave him some dignity, so I used the restore tool to put the rest of his head back.  When I tested the Mesh tool again with the same image for this article, the skeleton\u2019s head did <em>not<\/em> get damaged by the removal of the fence. It was crazy good last year and it\u2019s even smarter now.<\/p>\n<h1>Clone Stamp<\/h1>\n<p>TouchRetouch has a clone stamp tool that at first blush works just like every clone tool I&#8217;ve ever used. Tap in a target location, and then drag your finger around to use that sample to cover up an unwanted object or blemish. TouchRetouch does have the Restore\/Reapply that helps make that task easier but it\u2019s still fairly basic.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a trick though with the Clone Stamp to give it superpowers.  When you tap to put the target down, if you then tap and hold, you\u2019ll get a popup for three different modes for the clone stamp target: Classic, Slide-back, and Texture.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"float: center; margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Clone-stamp-modes.jpeg\" alt=\"Clone stamp modes\"  title=\"Clone stamp modes.jpeg\" width=\"338 \" height=\"600\"><figcaption style=\"text-align:center\">Clone Stamp modes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Classic is the default that works by moving the target in the same direction as you paint with your finger.  If I pick up my finger and start painting in another area, the target will reposition itself in the same direction I just moved, changing the starting point of the target.<\/p>\n<p>This often works the way you want, but have you ever been trying to clone an area and you run out of run room and start cloning an undesirable area?<\/p>\n<p>With slide-back, the initial painting works just like the classic mode. However, if I pick up my finger, you see that the target slides back to the initial location. I can paint again and replicate the same area. So the target goes back to where it started.<\/p>\n<p>The third option, Texture, is significantly different from the first two.  The Texture target is a defined area. Within limits, you can change the size and aspect ratio of that target box.<\/p>\n<p>When you paint with your finger in Texture mode, you can see that the clone tool replicates the area in the box, but when you to the edge of the box it starts over and replicates the boxed area again. I\u2019m not exactly sure what problem it solves.<\/p>\n<p>Within the Clone Stamp tool, you can select to have mirroring enabled as you clone.  Picture you\u2019ve got an L on the left side of an image. Without mirroring, the L would just be repeated if you cloned to the right.  With TouchRetouch you can mirror horizontally so you get a backward L on the right, or you can choose vertical and get an upside down L, or you can even choose diagonal which makes it upside down and backward. That last one is kind of head-bendy to use but if you ever need it, TouchRetouch has your back.<\/p>\n<h1>Blur<\/h1>\n<p>One of the Pro tools I don\u2019t yet have access to because of my plan is Blur. This tool isn\u2019t particularly sophisticated. The problem it solves is when you have someone in a photo who shouldn\u2019t be shown, like a young child on social media for example. If you tap on their face with the Blur tool it puts a very obvious blur over their face. There are definitely times this would be useful but I was hoping it would do a little bit more. You can try out Blur but if you haven\u2019t subscribed you can\u2019t export your image with that adjustment.<\/p>\n<h1>Retouch as a Photos Extension<\/h1>\n<p>While opening the TouchRetouch app and finding an image to fix in your Photos library isn\u2019t difficult, I find it much easier to do it the other way around. From the Photos app, you can run TouchRetouch as an extension.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve never used Photos extensions, simply select an image, go into edit, and then tap the three-dot menu in the upper right. You should see all of the photo editing apps that have extensions available.  There\u2019s only <em>one<\/em> tricky part to this.  TouchRetouch will not be in the list of extensions, for no reason I can think of, it will be called simply Retouch.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"float: center; margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Retouch-from-the-3-dot-menu.jpeg\" alt=\"Retouch from the 3 dot menu\"  title=\"Retouch from the 3-dot menu.jpeg\" width=\"338 \" height=\"600\"><figcaption style=\"text-align:center\">Retouch is just a tap away in Extensions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You\u2019ll be warned that Live Photos will be turned off because you\u2019re editing the original, but don\u2019t panic.  Changes you make to the image using the Retouch Photos Extension are reversible back in Photos, just like any changes you make in the native editor.<\/p>\n<p>I put an animated GIF of the Photos app where I\u2019m tapping the M key while in normal editing, and you can see the effect of removing a guy from the side of an image even though I made those changes using the Retouch for iOS Photos Extension on my Mac.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"float: center; margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ShowHideRemovedPersoninApplePhotos.gif\" alt=\"ShowHideRemovedPersoninApplePhotos\"  title=\"ShowHideRemovedPersoninApplePhotos.gif\" width=\"400 \" height=\"283\"><figcaption style=\"text-align:center\">Using M key in Apple Photos to show\/hide TouchRetouch changes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You might expect the TouchRetouch Photos extension to be a reduced capability extension, but it\u2019s not. It has all of the capabilities of the full app. The extension is super useful because I\u2019m already in my Photos app looking at an image with something distracting. No reason to get out of Photos, open TouchRetouch, and then try to find the same image.<\/p>\n<h1>360 Editing<\/h1>\n<p>Believe it or not, this little app can even edit 360\u00b0 photos. And yes, I know that 360\u00b0 is not a good description of these photos because that would mean you could only look around rather than up and down as well. The correct term is 4\u03c0 steradian photos, but I haven\u2019t gotten any traction on using the proper terminology.  But the point is that TouchRetouch, even on your phone, can edit these spherical photos.<\/p>\n<p>All of the tools I\u2019ve explained in TouchRetouch work very well even in spherical 4 \u03c0 photos.<\/p>\n<h1>Bottom Line<\/h1>\n<p>The bottom line is that TouchRetouch as a standalone app for iPhone, iPad, and Android is a terrific tool to have at hand when you capture that perfect shot \u2026 except there&#8217;s a powerline in the background, or a gloppy piece of the sidewalk, or a trash can on the beach, or a chain link fence, or a dog leash.  If your photos are worth sharing, are they worth $15\/year to make them perfect? Check out the mobile versions at <a href=\"https:\/\/adva-soft.com\/app-pageTouch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adva-soft.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2018, I told you about a tool called TouchRetouch for iOS from ADVA Soft. The problem to be solved is that you\u2019ve taken a great photo, but there are things in the photo you\u2019d like to remove. In the last five years, it\u2019s come a very long way. 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