Remove MANY Watermarks

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leopald
Aug 6, 2006
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Our company watermarks our images and has done so for the past 6 years.

We were recently approached by Amazon to have our products sold on their website. However, one stipulation is no watermarked images.

We’re not crazy about this because it leaves our images open for theft (as they’ve been stolen many times in the past), however, the substantial increase in traffic and potentially in sales is being deemed worth it.

Of course we don’t have all of our original images. We never imaged a scenario like this would happen where we would not want our watermarks.

Hindsight is 20/20. Is there a way to remove watermarks from flatfile

(JPG) images?

Here is an example image:

http://www.compulsivepaintball.com/mmCP/Images/JTTeamPantWoo dland.jpg

Advice is appreciated.

Thanks!

Jon

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noone
Aug 7, 2006
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Our company watermarks our images and has done so for the past 6 years.
We were recently approached by Amazon to have our products sold on their website. However, one stipulation is no watermarked images.
We’re not crazy about this because it leaves our images open for theft (as they’ve been stolen many times in the past), however, the substantial increase in traffic and potentially in sales is being deemed worth it.

Of course we don’t have all of our original images. We never imaged a scenario like this would happen where we would not want our watermarks.
Hindsight is 20/20. Is there a way to remove watermarks from flatfile
(JPG) images?

Here is an example image:

http://www.compulsivepaintball.com/mmCP/Images/JTTeamPantWoo dland.jpg
Advice is appreciated.

Thanks!

Unfortunately, once the Layered version of the image is gone, and you have Flattened to a Background (Italicized) Layer, the only way to this is to " build" the image beneath the watermark. Also, remember that you are talking about working FROM a JPG. The image data has already been compressed at least once. You will want to end up with a JPG to provide to the site, probably. This will mean more JPG compression.

I’d spend the time to find the largest, least-compressed version of each of the images (do you have any TIFFs that you worked from?) and have a go with the Clone Stamp and Healing Tools – a lot of manual labor for sure, but it can be done. Then, save that file as PSD (back it up – remember the hindsight!), then output to whatever is required.

If you only have the Save_For_Web JPGs to start, the results will likely be bleak. However if you are only going to the Web (not to CMYK, though remember the hindsight. Who knows what the next client will want you to do… ) you might be able to skate by. It is just that you will now have essentially a photocopy of a photocopy, of a photocopy.

I wish there were some magic-bullet plug-in, but the pixels are as you see them. There is nothing below the watermark any longer.

In all, it might well be better to just re-shoot the products, Save_As PSD’s/ DNGs/TIFFs and start from scratch.

Good luck,
Hunt
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padingle
Aug 7, 2006
you could try cone stamp tool and all that. But also try, on feasible images only, to select areas of watermark (in example image: red area) and adjust the levels so as to gain the original colors in that particular area. With an image with a more complex pattern/pixel arrangment, you should use this method,,, but on less patterned images you could get away with using the clone stamp.

Good luck… Depending how many images there are, it might be worth re-shooting.

Either way its gonna take time –> so good luck!
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padingle
Aug 7, 2006
you could try cone stamp tool and all that. But also try, on feasible images only, to select areas of watermark (in example image: red area) and adjust the levels so as to gain the original colors in that particular area. With an image with a more complex pattern/pixel arrangment, you should use this method,,, but on less patterned images you could get away with using the clone stamp.

Good luck… Depending how many images there are, it might be worth re-shooting.

Either way its gonna take time –> so good luck!
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Mike Russell
Aug 7, 2006
"Hunt" wrote in message
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Our company watermarks our images and has done so for the past 6 years.
We were recently approached by Amazon to have our products sold on their website. However, one stipulation is no watermarked images.

I removed the watermark using Hue/Sat. Select "Edit: Reds" in the drop down list, and click the dropper on part of the watermark. Then adjust the saturation and brightness sliders to minimize the watermark. You can also tweak the slider at the bottom of the H/S window to fine tune which hues get manipulated. Not perfect, but for an image such as the one you provided, where the color of the watermark is different from that of the object, it should get you something good enough to use.

Mike Russell
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John
Aug 10, 2006
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Our company watermarks our images and has done so for the past 6 years.
We were recently approached by Amazon to have our products sold on their website. However, one stipulation is no watermarked images.

I can do them for a fee. 🙂

Seriously, we would need more examples to be sure the automagic method I have in mind would work. The sample you showed would be quite easy, but variation in colors and placement of the watermark might obviate full automation.

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