Everyone wants to head home with the perfect collection of holiday pictures, but more often than not that is impossible.
每個人都想把完美的假期照片帶回家，然而這多半是不可能的。

Places such as the Taj Mahal and the Eiffel Tour get millions of visitors every year, making them some of the busiest spots in the world.
泰姬陵以及埃菲爾鐵塔等名勝每年接待數以百萬計的游客，是世界最繁忙的一些地方。

So, unless you are willing to wake up at 3am, the likelihood is that any picture taken at a famous monument will also have a large number of tourists milling about in the background.
所以，除非你愿意凌晨3點起床，否則很有可能你在旅游勝地拍的所有照片的背景里都會有一大群游客亂入。

But a new piece of technology promises to make these problems a thing of the past.
但是現在一項新技術有望令這些讓人心塞的問題成為歷史。

'Monument Mode' is a new software development that uses an algorithm to distinguish moving objects from fixed ones.
這一新的軟件程序名為“紀念照模式”，通過算法區分運動對象與靜止對象。

To make it work, a camera in Monument Mode is pointed at a landmark, even in a busy street, for a short period of time to record several seconds of footage from a fixed point.
使用方法如下：將設為“紀念照模式”的相機短時間對準一處地標，即使是在車水馬龍的街頭也可以，定點錄下幾秒鐘的片段鏡頭。

The technology then analyses the live camera feed and removes the moving objects, giving a clean shot of just the subject and the monument.
這項技術隨后將分析現場錄像并刪除移動的對象，只留下拍攝主體和地標，還你一個純凈的畫面。

This enables the average person to remove pesky cars and tourists from their images in a similar way to professional photographers, who have been able to do this using Photoshop for years.
這項技術讓普通大眾能夠以與專業攝影師相似的方式從照片里刪除那些討厭的汽車和游客，多年以來專業攝影師一直使用Photoshop圖像處理軟件來實現這一效果。

Monument Mode was demonstrated by Adobe at the company's Max Creativity Conference earlier this month.
本月初，Adobe公司在Adobe Max創意研討大會（Max Creativity Conference）上展示了“紀念照模式”。

The product isn't yet available to buy but it is expected to be a big hit as a mobile phone app, although some people have raised concerns about how effective it would be at many tourist attractions where visitors are often stationary when taking in a view.
該產品目前還不能購買，但預計將成為一款大熱的手機應用。但也有些人對該軟件在旅游勝地的處理效果存在疑問，畢竟很多旅游勝地的游客在欣賞景色的時候通常也是 靜止不動的。

Vocabulary

algorithm：算法

pesky：惱人的，討厭的

stationary：靜止不動的

英文來源：每日郵報

譯者：張卉

審校&編輯：劉明