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'Tourist Remover' Gets Rid of Annoying Photobombers

by Warren Riddle on July 4, 2009 at 08:02 AM


Photobombers: the scourge of tourists and photographers everywhere. You snap a beautiful panoramic shot of the Mediterranean coast, but when you get home to organize your pics, there's some Euro-dude in the distance wearing a Speedo and picking his nose.

Tourist Remover, as reported by BoingBoing, provides a solution to those photo crashers, and to other creepy lurkers who won't get out of your frame. The software only requires that a stationary photographer take several pictures of the intended area. And it works for fixed (like with a tripod) as well as hand-held shots. The program then melds the multiple images into a "composite photo with no interfering elements" by eliminating anything that doesn't remain stationary throughout all of the photos.

While you may not be able to remove the guy peering over your party group's shoulders, you'll at least be able to erase (if not mentally, then at least photographically) the fat guy scratching his crotch, or the poor sap crashing his bike in the background. [From: BoingBoing]

Tags: photography, photos, software, top, tourist remover, TouristRemover

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