It's all happened to us at one point or another. We take what we think is a great picture on holiday, and when we get home, we discover that a total stranger has walked right into the middle of the shot. Or you have been holding the camera in such a strange way that your fingers were in front of the lens, partially obscuring the view. Before you start crying and begin deleting the photos, try InPaint ($20, free feature-limited demo) to see if you can get rid of those unwanted elements.
InPaint removes the area of the photo you specify, then loosk at what surrounds that area to decide what should fill the now-empty space, and fills it accordingly. It's a bit of a hit-and-miss affair, with some stuff coming out remarkably well, and other times, it making the photograph worse. But with everything reversible, there's no harm in giving it a go, to see if you can get the waving idiot permanently erased from your photograph.
Start by loading up InPaint and opening the photo you want to amend. Then, using the red marker tool, paint over what you want removed. When you release the mouse, a box will appear around the painted element. All you have to do now is press the InPaint arrow button in the menu and watch the element being removed.
With basic elements with a plain background, this is easy and quick enough. But if you have elements with weird shapes and multi-coloured backgrounds and foregrounds, then you might have some problems. InPaint has another feature you can take advantage of to attempt to make the job a little easier. It is called Guide Lines. With this, you draw green lines to mark the edges of paths and backgrounds, so InPaint knows where they are. I found in my testing that this makes quite the difference in some of the photos I used.
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