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PhotoRoom automagically removes background from your photo

Run across PhotoRoom, a French startup that has been working on a utility photography mobile app. The concept is extremely uncomplicated, which is probably the reason why it has attracted a ton of downloads over the by few months.

After selecting a photograph, PhotoRoom removes the background from that photo and lets yous select another background. When you're done tweaking your photograph, you tin save the photo and open it in another app.

"My original vision comes from my fourth dimension when I was working at GoPro," co-founder and CEO Matthieu Rouif told me. "I often had to remove the groundwork from images and when the designer was out of role, I would spend a ton of time doing information technology manually."

And it turns out many people have been looking for a simple app that lets them go in and out equally quickly as possible with an edited photograph in their camera roll.

For instance, people selling clothes and other items on peer-to-peer east-commerce platforms take been using PhotoRoom to improve their photos. PhotoRoom is often recommended in online discussions or YouTube tutorials most optimizing your Poshmark or Depop listings.

Downloads really started to take off around February. PhotoRoom now has 300,000 monthly active users. The app is only available on iOS for now. And if yous're a professional using information technology regularly, you can pay for a subscription ($9.49 per month or $46.99 per yr) to remove the watermark and unlock more features.

"Subscriptions are what works best on mobile for photo and video apps," Rouif said.

Behind the scene, PhotoRoom uses machine learning models to identify objects on a photograph. And the vision goes beyond removing backgrounds.

Photoshop, the clear leader in photograph editing, was designed decades ago. There'southward a steep learning curve if yous desire to use information technology professionally. Information technology'south hard to understand layers, layer masks, channels, etc.

PhotoRoom wants to build a mobile-offset photo-editing app that doesn't lazily borrow Photoshop'south metaphors and interface elements. "What would exist Photoshop if yous could understand what'southward on the photo," Rouif said.

While the app relies heavily on templates, you tin tweak your images by adding objects, moving them effectually, adding some shadow and editing elements individually. Paradigm composition is 100% upward to the user.

Like VSCO, Darkroom, PicsArt, Filmic Pro and Halide, PhotoRoom belongs to a grouping of prosumer apps that are tackling photo and video editing from different ways. A generation of users who grew up using visual social networks are now pushing the limits of those apps — they look unproblematic when y'all first apply them, just they offer a ton of depth when you learn what yous can do with them. And they evidence that smartphones can be keen computers, beyond content consumption.

Rouif was the caput of production at Stupeflix, a powerful video editing app that was acquired by GoPro back in 2016. PhotoRoom is simply getting started as there are only iv people working on the app, including ii interns.