Don't want to mess-up with advanced utilities like Photoshop or Gimp to remove those unwanted objects from your images, InPaint 3 offers an fast, easy, and focused application to remove unwanted objects from your digital images. Inpaint photo restoration software uses advanced content-aware fill algorithms to fill the selected area with intelligently-generated textures pulled from the surrounding image data.

The utility costs $19.99 usually and is available for both Windows and Mac computers, under a limited period promo everybody can grab an unlimited free personal license of this handy utility.

Adobe Photoshop has always been the leader in image editing arena, however, using the popular image-editor even for basic-editing tasks like removing backgrounds or patching spots needs practice and know-how of the software but the upcoming version of Adobe Photoshop CS5 which will be a part of Adobe Creative Suite 5 is all set to make things simpler with introduction of smart content-aware image editing features better described as 'PatchMatch' - an algorithm which quickly finds approximate nearest neighbor matches between image patches.

PatchMatch is lot more then simple patching or spot-removal, to get a better gist of what this new technology is capable of doing watch the video demos below to see it in action.