@ Tranmontane:

As a professional photographer, you're doing yourself few favors by restricting yourself to one-horse software like this. In our studios, we use Adobe CS and a ton of other high-end stuff . . . but for a quick yet comprehensive make-over (when there's a rush to draft visuals for a mis-scheduled client presentation) then the go-to, amazingly enough, is this:

http://www.movavi.com/picture-editor/

Movavi has featured on GOTD in the past (which was how I discovered it) but nowadays seems -- deservedly -- to have developed so substantial a customer base that its giveaways are rare.

Photo Editor works superbly well, the Movavi algorithms noticeably superior to those in other software products (and especially, the removal of unwanted objects from images.) Nothing I've seen from any developer (and in my line of work, we've tried 'em all) has equalled Movavi's performance or deceptively simple ease-of-use.

Cheap enough to purchase outright by anyone with a love of picture-taking -- we're not talking Adobe-style stratospheric costs here -- I'd commend Movavi to you in your life as a professional photographer. . . as well as commend it to everyone who isn't.

As to today's offer, it's definitely worth trying in the same way that so many others (like inPaint, for example) are worth investigating. But don't try / don't investigate in isolation: software like this needs a price and quality benchmark -- and that benchmark is Movavi Photo Editor, which should be trial-downloaded, too.

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@ Luis: this software wouldn't achieve anything like the results claimed for it on the developer's website.

The shot of the buildings with figures 'cleaned' from the far right is especially hilarious: there are no contiguous blue pixels the software could've called upon to create the lower window sill in the same shade as the upper frame. As for the lady decorated every which way with logo over-printing: trust me, it's not a case of what takes hours to correct using the clone tool can be accomplished in a minute using Photo Stamp Remover more a case that using this software, it'd take you from here to Christmas and you'd still never manage it.

This is being marketed as a 'photo stamp remover' and it may, just, manage that with small (5pt) type on a constant background. A 'photo stamp' more complicated than that, and it'll fail totally. As an 'object remover', it ought to fare better.

That said though, time and again I've come across users of 'object removal' apps blaming what seems, to them, to be the software's failings when they themselves are at fault for not appreciating that unless you work at pixel level -- that is, with an image blown up to the absolute maximum and a 'brush' sized down to the absolute minimum then no. No software will work the way you hope it will.

As for any professional / commercial photographer worried about intellectual property theft, aw, c'mon: if you (or your studio or your Art Department) doesn't even know how to protect your work from image manipulation then you perhaps shouldn't be in the business at all.

Finally, a note of appreciation to SoftOrbits for the before-and-after pictures on its website. Brilliant, guys . . . though by my calendar, today is the 27th of April. Not the 1st.

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