Date imprint removal from photographs

[Nicola McIntosh]

could you not crop them glen? thats if the date is in the bottom corner 😀

[Glenn Sharp]

I’ll get away with cropping them on some of them Nic but there’s a fair few that have got the date running through legs and dresses on the group shots..

I can’t bloody believe I forgot to take the imprint off (hot)

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Glenn Sharp:

I’ll get away with cropping them on some of them Nic but there’s a fair few that have got the date running through legs and dresses on the group shots..

oops 😮 take it you’ll be busy this weekend then :lol1:

[Phill Fenton]

That’s not so bad Glen.

Many years ago my sister had a low key wedding. Her new husband used his own expensive SLR camera to take all the wedding pictures – a few weeks later when I asked them if I could see their wedding pictures he admitted he had forgotten to put any film in the camera 😕

[Harry Cleary]

Maybe you have looked at these
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/digita … date_7.htm

Not sure how this one works Glenn but it has a ‘batch option’
http://www.softorbits.com/photo-stamp-remover/

Cleary Signs – ‘Keeping weekends Sacred!’ : 😀 😀

[Glenn Sharp]

quote Phill:

That’s not so bad Glen.

Many years ago my sister had a low key wedding. Her new husband used his own expensive SLR camera to take all the wedding pictures – a few weeks later when I asked them if I could see their wedding pictures he admitted he had forgotten to put any film in the camera 😕

😀 …Oh dear

Thanks Harry……I’d actually just downloaded the 30 day trial of the softbits one………………It worked ok but it doesn’t allow me to save the changes anyway

ah well………………….best get used to photoshop cloning then 🙁

[John Childs]

The Softorbits one looks good.

It says that it will remove watermarks as well, so that blows one artwork protection theory. 😀

[Ian Muir]

Hi

I think it should be possible if you took the pictures in ‘raw’ format as opposed to JPEG…. you probably didn’t though, but at least it’s a possibility…

Ian :lol1:

[Steve Morgan]

If you are going to make the changes in Photoshop use the healing brush as well as the clone tool, make sure to save the file first as a psd file, then do the alterations, when everything is as perfect as you can get then do a save as and save with a new jpeg name. That way you can go back to the psd file and make other changes without loss of quality in the final image. Every time you re-save a jpeg it reduces it’s size (in pixels), and consequently, its quality.
Ian, I can’t see how saving as a RAW file would make any difference.

[Glenn Sharp]

Thanks for that Steve

[Ian Muir]

Your probably right Steve, just thought that since you can access and alter all the different original settings on a raw file then perhaps the date stamp might be held in a separate alterable ‘box’ too.

Ian :lol1:

[Ian Muir]

Thinking again (dangerous for me, prob just as daft), when you take the pic the date and time stamp is not set to display, i.e. the pic is say a JPEG, you then tell camera to put date & time on it, overlaid on top with another file type.

Can you not just go back to original file in camera and download image without date & time stamp?

Ian :lol1:

[Glenn Sharp]

I’ve tried that Ian but it makes no difference…

Obviously it is my fault I didn’t change the setting but it is annoying that while the images are still in the camera’s memory that you can’t switch it off

[Harry Cleary]

Sorry Glenn, meant to post this yesterday….I have the same issue (hence my interest in how you get on) and asked on another forum of photographers. One of the members suggested having a look at this software. Haven’t had a chance to try my own on it yet.

http://exifremover.com/index.php

[Glenn Sharp]

I’ve just given that a go Harry…..Thanks

Unfortunately, unless I’m missing something it didn’t remove the imprinted date

I don’t understand what the EXIF information is but I think it might just be the background information that is stored for each photo taken…i.e…..camera model, resolution, etc etc

I’ve managed to crop a fair few of them and I’m just waiting for the newlyweds to tell me which ones they want (there were 4 or 5 people all taking similar pictures) so it isn’t the end of the world

I’ve been playing about in corel photopaint with the clone tool and in all honesty the results are very good

lesson learnt though 😕