Re: How to remove timestamp from a photo?



On 18 Aug 2005 in comp.graphics.apps.gimp, Simon Plantinga wrote:

> Shlomo Ben Salami wrote:
>> What is the receipe for removing the DATE stamps from pictures, u
>> know, the lower right hand corner?
>>
>> I have a bunch of vacation photos that I want to edit before making
>> some prints. I like having the photos timestamped, though I could
>> turn the feature off on the camera side...
>
> Although there are experimental plugins for restoring parts of an
> image it's still difficult. The part of the picture behind the
> digits just isn't there, so you somehow have to restore it yourself.
> If you don't want the date on your picture just turn it off on the
> camera. The time and date will still be stored in the information
> fields of your picture, but invisible in the photograph. I'm not
> that familiar with Windows, but I think holding the mouse over the
> filename pops up a window with all kinds of camera info (type, lens
> etc.) and the time and date the picture was taken. In linux you
> could use 'identify -verbose <filename>'.

Further to that: there are utilities, many platforms, which will take
some portion of the exif information (like the date) and imprint it on
the picture. They will also do this kind of thing in a batch process.
So you can add the date/time after the fact far more easily than you
can remove it.

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Joe Makowiec
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