Re: remove timestamp/watermark from digital images

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Author: Shawn Dowler
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: remove timestamp/watermark from digital images
The Gimp's Resynthesizer plugin should be able to do what you want,
but I don't know how difficult it might be to automate it and have it
still look good on most images. I would try it on a few images
manually and see how it looks first.

http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer/removal

I know this doesn't get you the batch processing you are looking for,
but that could be put together after deciding this is the way to go.

Shawn Dowler
Information Designer

http://shawndowler.com/blog
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On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:34, Ben Trussell <> wrote:
> You might use ImageMagick's convert command to crop out the portion at
> the bottum with the timestamp.  You'd loose a bit of the image (lower
> strip of the image) but if all of the images are the same size then
> you could batch (bash) it out..
>
> http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php
> An example w/ the crop option:
> http://www.ioncannon.net/linux/81/5-imagemagick-command-line-examples-part-1/
>
> Ben
>
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Alex Dean <> wrote:
>> I just got back from a camping trip.  On said trip, I took hundreds of
>> pictures I'm really happy with.  Except... the camera had some setting
>> enabled which stamped the date & time in a really ugly red font in the
>> corner of every image.  I'm hoping someone can suggest a process
>> (ImageMagick?) to locate these stamps and remove them, maybe by copying
>> adjacent areas of the image or something like that?
>>
>> I know I could do them by hand in Photoshop or Gimp, but I'd prefer to start
>> with some batch process and then fix up then ones where the batch output
>> isn't acceptable.  The idea of doing them all by hand is a little
>> overwhelming.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> thanks,
>> alex
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