iPadOS
Remove objects from photos
This app’s content-aware Erase tool quickly cleans up your snaps
IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN How to use Imgmi’s content-aware Erase tool to remove content from photos
YOU’LL NEED Imgmi (From £1.91/ month, trial available), iPadOS 15 or later
There are a plethora of imageediting apps on the App Store that claim to use some form of AI to enhance your images, but the tricky-to-pronounce Imgmi has a bit of a pedigree, as it comes from Skylum, maker of the Luminar suite for the Mac that has used neural network smarts for a while now.
Imgmi has a few neat tricks for improving images you’ve taken on your iPhone or otherwise added to your camera roll. It can replace the sky in a photo in a way that’s almost seamless, turning a rainy day to a sunny one, or noon into sunset. There’s the ability to remove powerlines from an image, if parallel lines over the sky are ruining your landscape photography, and it has some tools to improve (or at least change) the faces and bodies of your portrait subjects. The app is free, but you can subscribe for more features. It’s the Erase tool that we’re going to concentrate on here, however. This acts very much like the Magic Eraser you might have seen in the Google Photos app, allowing you to draw over objects to make them vanish. Here’s how it works.