Ever wanted to remove a person from a photo? Or take the tourists out of family photos? Even perhaps just to take a dying plant out of a photo, the Wired “Remove Tourists From Travel Photos” howto will teach you step by step how to do it; with free software like GIMP or Photoshop if you have it.

“Part of the romance of travel is the notion that you’re visiting remote, isolated wonders. The trouble is, when you arrive somewhere like Machu Picchu, Angkor Wat or the Pyramids at Giza, you find you’re not alone — the place is crawling with hordes of poorly dressed tourists that muck up your pristine photographs.

We can’t help you get rid of tourists at the actual sites, but we’ll show you how to zap them out of your photos, offering friends and family the illusion that you had the place to yourself.”

See for yourself at Wired’s Wiki.

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