Edit Photos In Augmented Reality

Common photo-editing software allows users to move objects—a flower from the left side of a photo to the right, for example—along a plane, but that’s about all they can do. Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon and the University of California at Berkeley have developed the first application that lets users scale, rotate, and move onscreen objects in the 3-D space. Normally, such tasks would require hours of work and professional skills, but the software does them in minutes, and with very little processing power. The software is in the experimental stage now, but enterprising creatives can download a prototype version for free. Carnegie Mellon University