PhotoScissors review: Knock out the backgrounds of simple photos
Who hasn’t struggled with knocking out the background of a photo in Photoshop? Zooming in, finely tuning your tool to be the proper size and then frustratingly highlighting the areas you want to save or delete—what a pain! PhotoScissors 1.1 seeks to eliminate the hassle by providing a simple background removal tool. Developer Teorex promises that it only takes a few swipes to highlight the background and foreground, and the algorithm will take care of the rest.
In practical application though, PhotoScissor’s algorithm is fine for simple objects like you’d use for eBay or Craiglist advertisements. A few swipes, click Process, and you’re mostly done. You’ll likely still have to do some fine tuning, but PhotoScissors is comparatively much faster than a manual Photoshop background removal.
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