Bye bye text

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Darrel
Dec 14, 2005
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I have scanned a map to a PSD file. Looks like it was built in layers, but I have only the single layer. Is there any programmatic way of getting rid of the text (street names, etc.), or am I stuck with a massive amount of editing by hand? Thanks.
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catfish
Dec 15, 2005
if you only have one layer, then everything is in that layer. Sorry.

"Darrel" wrote:
I have scanned a map to a PSD file. Looks like it was built in layers, but I have only the single layer. Is there any programmatic way of getting rid of the text (street names, etc.), or am I stuck with a massive amount of editing by hand? Thanks.

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Darrel
Dec 15, 2005
Thanks, Catfish. Thought that must be so. Dreaded facing the task only to find out later that a magic proram existed.
wrote:
if you only have one layer, then everything is in that layer. Sorry.
"Darrel" wrote:
I have scanned a map to a PSD file. Looks like it was built in layers, but I have only the single layer. Is there any programmatic way of getting rid of the text (street names, etc.), or am I stuck with a massive amount of editing by hand? Thanks.

don’t bother replying to
or even
just reply to the newsgroup and i will catch it there
AG
AKA gray asphalt
Dec 26, 2005
If the text is a different color you can
select a portion and do ‘select similar’
You probably will get an imperfect
selection but if you tweek it, it might
be useful when you get to erasing the
stuff. You might also select the background
color and then invert (Is that what it’s called?)
reverse the selection and see what you get.
I’d try the paint and clone tools to see which
works better and try filling the selection, if
you can get a good one. If you post a
part of it, I might have some other ideas.

"Darrel" wrote in message
Thanks, Catfish. Thought that must be so. Dreaded facing the task only to find out later that a magic proram existed.
wrote:
if you only have one layer, then everything is in that layer. Sorry.
"Darrel" wrote:
I have scanned a map to a PSD file. Looks like it was built in layers, but I have only the single layer. Is there any programmatic way of getting rid of the text (street names, etc.), or am I stuck with a massive amount of editing by hand? Thanks.

don’t bother replying to
or even
just reply to the newsgroup and i will catch it there

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