snapmania Press Release

Obstacles Blocking Your Otherwise-Perfect Photo? Remove them with snapmania’s ‘Tourist Remover’ - First-ever Online Tool Removes Obstacles from Photographs -

SAN FRANCISCO – August 15, 2006 – snapmania (www.snapmania.com), a leading Web-based digital photo management service, announced the first-ever online tool application that removes unwanted moving objects such as tourists or passing cars from photographs. ‘Tourist Remover’ is a free application, available to users of snapmania’s online photo service that offers a new way to organize and share photos. Tourist Remover’s removal algorithm is fully automatic and requires only 3-10 photos of the same object taken in succession.

There is no need for a tripod.  To take advantage of Tourist Remover, users only need to sign up for a free snapmania account, upload their photos to the site, and use the drag & drop interface to move their photos to Tourist Removal area of the site, where Tourist Remover’s ingenious software will remove the unwanted obstacle and return the photo to the user’s account. Tourist Remover has already attracted significant attention within the blogging community.

In addition to Tourist Remover, snapmania allows users to easily create a wide variety of photo-related items, such as Web albums, e-cards, slide shows, photoblogs, photobooks, t-shirts, cards and other print-related products.  Free sign-up is available at www.snapmania.com which includes 100 MB of online storage for photos. All of snapmania’s applications offer the ease of a PC-based application, but run exclusively on a Web browser.

About snapmania
snapmania is a leading online photo management service, created by futureLAB, a Top 500, Switzerland-based software development company founded in May 2000 by a team of experienced Internet software and network specialists.  futureLAB specializes in the design and implementation of innovative software solutions, such as those offered by snapmania. The fotoZEN online photo management platform is the latest achievement in that area. It won two “Best of Swissweb” awards, in the Innovation and Creativity categories.  futureLAB works with more than 30 partners including leading European telecom and media companies like cablecom (UPC, Liberty), sunrise (TDC), swisscom, NZZ, Blick, Hotelplan, and Interdiscount.