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 [email protected] http://shawndowler.com/blog http://twitter.com/shawndowler On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:34, Ben Trussell <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
