> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:59:00 -0700, Phil Adamson
> <PhilAdamson[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >How do you remove a date that has been stamped directly onto a photo by a
> >digital camera?
>
> Depends on what software you have to work with. People should stop
> dating pictures since the date and much more information can now be
> automatically stored by nearly any digital camera in the picture's
> metadata which by the way Vista's Photo Galley will display for you if
> you set it up to do so.
>
> I was going to write a how-to, but decided to Google first and sure
> enough somebody already covered the basics.
>
>
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/digitalphotography/ss/removedate.htm>
> A few things you should know. How successful you are depends WHERE or
> more accurately what's under the date or time stamp. If some complex
> details of the picture your success rate goes down and the time to do
> a good repair goes ways up.
>
> As the above article suggests, try cropping first. Sometimes you won't
> miss much since date and time stamps almost always are in a corner, so
> if it is over something important whoever took the shot wasn't that
> great a photographer to begin with. <grin>
>
> If you have access to Photoshop, GIMP, Paint Shop Pro or any of the
> better graphics programs you can try rubber stamp or cloning tools or
> a healing brush. I wouldn't use the block method mentioned that always
> ends up butt ugly unless you're just covered up some sold colored
> object. Zoom way in for best results.
>
> If you don't have any good tools, then you can always try to fix it a
> few pixels at a time. Very slow, very tedious and usually not worth
> the effort.
>
>