Snapheal offers high-end photo retouching at a low cost
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Without a doubt, one of the most amazing features of Photoshop CS5 and CS6 is content-aware fill. It allows users to remove unwanted and distracting parts of an image and fill in the gaps with content that matches the surrounding pixels for a seamless bit of retouching. Before content-aware fill, you would have to spend a lot of time tinkering with the Clone Stamp tool to do this kind of work. Now, that work can often be done in seconds.
If you wish you had this kind of feature for working with images, but you don’t own Photoshop, check out Snapheal by MacPhun. Snapheal offers the same kind of retouching magic as content-aware fill, but without all the other Photoshop complexity and cost.
Snapheal 2.0 offers familiar brushes and lasso selection tools as well as three erasing modes to replace different kinds of content (large objects, small objects, scratches, etc). For minor fixes and finishing touches, Snapheal also includes a clone & stamp tool. Other tools allow you to adjust gamma, saturation, contrast, color temperature, shadows and highlights, sharpening, noise, and more.
Here’s a video of Snapheal in action:
Snapheal 2.0 is available at the Mac App Store where it’s currently on sale for $7.99 (regularly priced at $19.99). A free trial version is also available at Snapheal.com
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