Tools: Tourist Remover

Tourist Remover does something very cool: it takes your otherwise unusable vacation pictures and cleans them up so you have one perfectly memorable image.

Now all those photos you took at The British Museum - you know, the ones that had forty Japanese tour groups crowded around the statues - can finally have a place in your scrapbook.

All you have to do is upload your pics to futureLAB's Snapmania site, and they'll do the fixing for free...

But!

There is a catch.

The catch is that you need to have taken several (4-5) photos of the same scene from a tripod. It takes multiple input sources in order to make a clean finished image. Upload 5 shots of a tourist-infested monument, and then you get a nice usable version.

You probably won't be using Tourist Remover for photos you've previously taken. But if you're planning another trip soon, and you expect to be in some high-traffic photo-ops, then plan ahead!

Bring your tripod along, or stick your camera on a steady mount somewhere, and snap away. Take multiples on your digital camera, knowing that you can get your lovely tourist-free photo made once you've come home from holiday.

Check out the demo page and see for yourself.