Remove date and time

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Carol Taylor
Jan 11, 2006
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My grandson brought me some beautiful photos he took with his new digital camera so I could work with them in CS. Unfortunately, the date and time is visible in all the photos (he’s still learning about the camera). The backgrounds are multi-colored, not solid. How do I remove this without cropping it out? Thanks in advance. CarolT

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Gene Palmiter
Jan 11, 2006
Not sure that you have the magic healing tool…I think that started with CS2. So look at your channels to find if the type is mostly on just a couple of them. Heal as best you can. A lot depends on the background. The real solution is to read the manual and find out how to shut that "feature" off.


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Gene Palmiter
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"Carol Taylor" wrote in message
My grandson brought me some beautiful photos he took with his new digital camera so I could work with them in CS. Unfortunately, the date and time is
visible in all the photos (he’s still learning about the camera). The backgrounds are multi-colored, not solid. How do I remove this without cropping it out? Thanks in advance. CarolT

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C J Southern
Jan 11, 2006
A quick and dirty trick I use is to lasso 1 digit at a time with the patch tool, then drag it off to a suitable area – it often does a surprisingly good job.
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noone
Jan 11, 2006
In article , caroltaylor7
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My grandson brought me some beautiful photos he took with his new digital camera so I could work with them in CS. Unfortunately, the date and time is visible in all the photos (he’s still learning about the camera). The backgrounds are multi-colored, not solid. How do I remove this without cropping it out? Thanks in advance. CarolT

Carol,

Gene gave you one good idea – the Healing Brush. Depending on the background, you might first use the Rectangular Marquee Tool, to outline the text of the date stamp, leaving a bit of room. Move the Marquee to a very similar area of the background, Ctrl-c (Copy), then Ctrl-v (Paste). The copied area of background will now be on its own Layer. Click on the Layer Mask icon, at the bottom left-middle of the Layer Palette to create a Layer Mask, which will be locked to the new Layer. Use the Move Tool, to drag the new Layer and its Layer Mask to cover the date-stamp, the click on the thumbnail of the Layer Mask (note double black line, and I even check in the Channels Palette, to make sure that it is active. Use a soft-edged brush, to paint the edges of the Layer Mask to soften the edge of your new Layer. You can see the effect, provided that you do not check the eyeball in the Channels Palette. If you reveal too much, just hit X to change the color, from black to white, and paint away that part of the Mask. You might be able to get a pretty good match.

Good luck,
Hunt
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Derek Fountain
Jan 11, 2006
How do I remove this without
cropping it out?

The clear answer, in case you didn’t pick it up from the other’s responses, is that you can’t. There’s no image data "under" those letters and numbers. If you remove them you’ll just end up with a letter and number shaped hole in your image!

You need to clone another part of the image over the top of them. Depending on what the image is of, that can be either very easy and 100% invisible, or very hard and difficult to get right.
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John McWilliams
Jan 15, 2006
Derek Fountain wrote:
How do I remove this without

cropping it out?

The clear answer, in case you didn’t pick it up from the other’s responses, is that you can’t. There’s no image data "under" those letters and numbers. If you remove them you’ll just end up with a letter and number shaped hole in your image!

You need to clone another part of the image over the top of them. Depending on what the image is of, that can be either very easy and 100% invisible, or very hard and difficult to get right.

As you have received three solutions to the time-date problem, you may be a tad confused. The healing brush is unlikely to be the right tool to use at the outset, as there is usually very high contrast between a date stamp and the background. The patch tool is great, but may be hard to use at first. I’d go with the Clone stamp, and use healing brush if it doesn’t come out right.

Work on a layer, or a copy of the original if you are unfamiliar with layers.

Curious as to what digital camera your G-son used. I was unaware that any but film cameras did (or could) put the time and date stamp on the image….


John McWilliams
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Etoin Shurdlu
Jan 15, 2006
Never mind trying to blend it it.

Just create an insignia, a simple colored block that covers it. Type some nice inidials in it or something. You need do this only once; just copy the layer to every picture. It can even be automated to a simple click-n-go operation against all the pictures at once.

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