Fotor’s tool fixes your snaps by getting rid
of ‘demon eyes’Let’s Enhanc e gives your photos a quality
upgrade without bloc kine ssAlgorith ma’s
tool will spice
up your
monochrome
snaps with
some colour50 12 - 25 June 2019
Get rid of red eye(andother
blemishes)
Red eye – which occurs when bright
light reflec ts off the retina at the back of
the eye – has been the bane of
photographe rs since the invention of
the modern camera flash. Fotor’s
red-eye remover (bit.ly/redeye477)
provides a quick fix: simply click Get
Started, choose the red-eye remover
and select the radius of th e on-screen
circle us ed to identify the affe cted area.
Add your own photos to the gallery by
using the Import button, then drag the
circle into position and click on each
eye. Removal is instant.
At the bottom of th e image, you’ll find
the Compare button, which you can
click and hold to view the before and
after effe ct. Fotor also feat ures several
other tools for tweaking physical
appearance, such as the age-defyi ng
wrinkle remover.Addcolour to your photos
The premise of Algorithma’s Colorize
Photos tool (bit.ly/colour477) is simple:
black-and-white image in, colourised
photo out. It’s smart, too, and can
identify faces and automatically add
a flesh tone.
To use the tool, just up load your
picture or paste an image URL, click
Colorize It and wait. Once co mplete,
you’ll see a bisected image: black-and-white original on one side andfresh,
coloured version on the other. Drag the
slid er to compar e before and after shots
and download either the compar ison
image or the full-colour pic.Enhance your images
without pixelation
If your photo gallery is let down by
low-res graphics, Let’s Enhance
(letsenhance.io) can help. Using
machine learning , this online tool
upscales images , removing the
compression that leads to pixelated
pictures and giving them a quality
upgrade.
After uploading your photo, you’re
given two choi ces: Upscaling and
Enhancing. If you’re upscaling, select
whether it’s a photo or an illustration;
for enhancements, choose whether to
add textures orimprove washed-out
colours. Clicking the ‘Advanced settings’You don’t need complex software to transform your snaps into works of art.
Steve Clark pick s the be st free web tools for editing images in your browser
bene ath these options simply lets you
decide whether to save as a JPEG or
PNG file.
Once you’ve made your selection,
click Start Processing. With th at done,
headback to yo ur account and hover
over the thumbnail to either bin it or
download the photo. Just on e note:
you’ll needto sign up for a free Let’s
Enhance account, which limits you to
five photo upgrades. After that, you’ll
needto pay a subscription or ona
per-use basis.Remove unsightly
backgrounds
Remove.bg (www.remove.bg) promises
to get rid of background s from images
“100% automatically – in 5 seconds –
without a single click”. This is n’t strictly
true, since you’ll needto click when
choosing to upload your photo or
entering a URL. But other than that,
the site delivers on its promise, and the
results are impressive.
There are options for small or
medium-sized downloads and basic
editing tools that let you erase or
restor e specific areas of th e image. You
can also add a colour to the background
(the default is transparent) or add a
photo – perfect for faking your climb to
the summit of Mount Everest or an
encounter with the Queen, if you’re so
inclined.Enhance your
photos online
into rk
Now you see, now you don’t – Remove.bg
is effective against all backgrounds