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Several Techniques for Removing a Date from a Photo

By Sue Chastain, About.com

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Remove the Date with Alien Skin Image Doctor Smart Fill (Plugin)

Alien Skin Image Doctor Smart Fill

The smart fill tool in Alien Skin Image Doctor works exceptionally well for removing the date quickly.

Smart Fill is another filter in the Image Doctor collection, and for this particular image, I think it gives the best results of all. For this example, I started again with a magic wand selection of the date. Then I used the "Smart Fill" filter with these settings:
Expand Selection: 1
Texture Feature Size: 8.15
Texture Regularity: High
Stitch Into Background: enabled.

With this filter, the results are far less noticeable than anything we have done so far, yet it was done in a fraction of the time it took to use the clone tool.

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Special thanks to Jean Brandau, Huntsville Guide, for use of the photo and for inspiring this article.

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