The internet is flooded with photos--of your brunch, of your cat, of your estranged elementary school friend's cousin's wedding. Now a team of computer scientists from Princeton University and software company Adobe have created a program to make those photos just a little better, by identifying and eliminating distracting elements, according to a paper presented recently at this year's Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference in Boston. There are lots of elements of a "casual" photo that can make it terrible--bad lighting, off-angles. But one that's often ignored is the inclusion of distracting elements, objects in the photo that distract the viewer's attention from the image's main focus. Photo editing software allows photographers to remove these elements from their images, of course, but for most "this effort is neither possible nor warranted," the researchers write.