SoftOrbits Photo Retoucher

Not all pictures turn out as beautiful and perfect as we expected, or as free of artifacts and unwanted objects as we imagined.

Also, some paper photos don’t age as gently as others, and require some fixing to look as new. SoftOrbits Photo Retoucher can perform all these tasks for you in a simple and straightforward way, providing you with a wide set of enhancing tools for you to beautify your best pictures in the process.

The program supports all the most widely used image file formats (JPG, TIFF, etc.), and offers two main functionalities – photo restoration and image enhancing. These two main areas are supported by a wealth of tools and utilities. Some are specific to one of them and others can be used in a variety of tasks. Thus, when it comes to restoring old scanned paper photos, for instance, you will find tools to remove scratches, to denoise the entire image or part of it, to adjust the lighting, and even to add color to your old back and white shots.

As for image enhancing, probably the most used feature that SoftOrbis Photo Retoucher offers is the object removal tool. Though the removal process itself is very simple from the user’s point of view, the algorithm behind it has to perform very complex calculations that not always yield the expected results. Depending on the background, the colors, the number and size of the objects to remove, etc., the resulting image may or may not need further retouching. Not that that’s a problem for SoftOrbis Photo Retoucher, though.

Actually, touching up and embellishing your pictures is one of the program’s highlights. You can use it to remove blemishes, spots, and other image artifacts from your best portraits; correct all kinds of color and lighting errors, a classic both in the digital and the analog photo environments; improve the contrast and the detail of somehow blurred images, and many other utilities.

SoftOrbis Photo Retoucher is a professional tool wrapped up in an easy-to-use and intuitive interface. Some of its features are present in much more expensive and well-known image editors, but they lack the simplicity of use that is one of the keys of this program. It is not a free tool, and probably not a tool that everyone can afford, but the technology behind it and its short learning curve it is well worth the try. Just download and use the trial version provided for a few days and see it for yourself.