How to delete a signature from a picture?

Hi,

I want to print some pictures that I have downloaded from the internet.
They have the signature of the author on the bottom left, is there a way to
delete it in PS?

Thanks
Alex

 

Yes. But that would be wrong.



Charles
Torrance, California
http://www.tcpslashipdomains.com

 

The right way is to email the owner/copyrightholder of the image. He or she
probably worked hard to get that image. If it's for personal use many people
are more than willing to send you a copy for print. Or pay up!

If you are sure this is public domain imagery and some schmuck decided to
add his own sig just because he needed his graffiti it's a different issue.
But be sure to check out first. Don't assume anything just because it's in
your interest.

In general artifacts you want out of a picture can be removed by use of the
patch, clone stamp and /or healing brush tools in PS. describing in detail
would be rather lengthy and quite useless without the example at hand
showing. There are brilliant tutorials all around. Google will be your path
to enlightenment. And the help files in PS probably have some material to
offer.

HTH
Pjotr

 

Thanks for your comments.

No copyright is involved here, otherwise I would not have asked, you can be
sure!

Cheers
Alex

 

If you 'found' the images and they're not something you created then
rest assured they're someone's property and fully copyrighted from the
very moment they were fixed in a medium.

 

ALL images are copyrighted! PERIOD !!!

Whether the poster (owner, hopefully) grants permission ON the web location,
that they're "declared" to be public domain or whatever. CYAN! before
altering and re-using!

Kirk Splaat.

 

No.

 

You can be sure there is a copyright involved when someone says that.

 

it really all depends what your intent of use is. If you are going to use
an image for any sort of professional reason...then yeah..its pretty
unethical to rob this person of their stuff without permission.

I wont say where i work....but we have cloned out pleanty of corbis
watermarks in the past. I think they have finaly stopped that tho.

But if you are going to be using it for say a student project or a personal
web site....contact the person...and they are usualy pretty cool about
sharing (as long as YOU do not take credit for their work and give them some
credit (perhaps a link to their site). And the nice thing about working
with them like this...is that they will probably send you a higher
resolution file than what you will find on their site.

If you are a student tho...and am making some sort of presentation...i am
sure there would really be no ethical breech if you included the source in a
bibliography.

Personaly...i dont see much of an ethical problem if you are going to use
these images for a private presentation (say a closing dinner)...and are not
going to distribute the images publicly in ANY way.

If i am wrong..i am sure someone will correct me.

j

 

"Closing Dinners" and ALL presentations are technically required to obtain a
'site license' for music and video usage. This would then seem that all
forms of copyright is involved in such 'private' presentations.

Use of an image in a home setting - would probably NOT fall into the trap.
In any commercial setting, restaurant, ballroom, meeting room, convention
facility, etc. definitely does ... as many large companies have found out to
the detriment of their 'show budget'.

To date, I've yet to refuse imagery except in one case ... where it was
'presented as a "fait accompli" and "after the fact". This group (three
letter "B" govenrmental arm) even had gone so far as to blur my copyright.

So why contact me? They'd had complaints about the 'poor printing quality'
and decided they 'needed better images' from me! Yeah, right!

Their regional supervisor got the 'cease and desist' letter(s).

 

seems that if its honest use and permission is asked for and given and if
its clear that its work by another then leaving the signature in place is
the way to go. Nope....can't think of any reason an honest person should do
this.