By Yuan Ren For Mailonline
Published: 16:32 GMT, 5 March 2019 | Updated: 13:29 GMT, 6 March 2019
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A new camera app for iPhone lets you erase annoying tourists, cars or other objects that block your perfect shot.
Spectre uses AI technology to stabilise long-exposure photos, focusing on the stationary part of a frame erasing moving parts, including people and objects.
Near-perfect holiday snaps of beautiful views cluttered with people appear as if you have beaten the crowds and arrived to enjoy scenic vistas all to yourself.
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A new camera app for iPhone lets you erase annoying tourists, cars or other objects that block your perfect shot. Spectre uses AI technology to stabilise long-exposure photos, focusing on the stationary part of a frame erasing moving parts, including people and objects
Halide, the company behind the software, says its new app can generate such 'magic' photos by using AI technology in several ways.
The software can recognise the type of scenery the user is trying to capture, and enhance the image accordingly.
For example, it can blend waves in a picture of the beach, to create atmospheric effects that provide a sense of motion.
'[Spectre's] intelligent shutter takes hundreds of photos during the exposure time and merges the result,' said Sebastiaan de With, the app's designer.
'That means you don't just get a final still image, but also a video of the entire exposure as it happened.'
Spectre's ability to stabilise shots for a long exposure time, where the shutter stays open for up to nine seconds.
The company claims its AI 'image