How to Remove Text From an Image in Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is the tool of choice for most high-end photo retouchers. You can use it to change any image you have, if you know which tools are best to use. When you have an image that contains text you want to remove, the clone stamp tool is the way to go.
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Things You'll Need
- Adobe Photoshop (this article uses CS2, but you can use just about any version)
- An image with unwanted text
- About 5-10 minutes
Instructions
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Launch Photoshop on your computer and open the image that requires editing. Duplicate the background layer and then hide it, so you have a copy of the image if the edits don't go as planned.
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Enlarge the area of the image that contains the text you want to remove. Select the clone stamp tool and adjust its size to suit the image. The simpler the background behind the text, the easier it is to clone the text from the image.
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Select an area to clone from -- known as the source -- that is adjacent to an area of type. Define the source by holding down the "Alt" key on Windows or "Option" key on Mac and clicking with your mouse button. Move the clone stamp tool to the nearby text and click and move the tool to apply the source. The type is replaced with the source contents. As the background of the text changes, resample the source and continue to cover the text.
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Work in small sections and continue clicking and brushing over the text and resampling the background until all the text is removed from the image. Save the image.
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Tips & Warnings
Take your time, making sure to be very detailed. You will get a much more organic look when you do so.
If the image is very detailed with a lot going on near the next, try zooming in and using a smaller brush to get around details easier. This will take more time.
Now that you've edited the text out, you may want to follow my next tutorial, which teaches you how to turn that photo into a cartoon in Photoshop. (There's a link under Resources) I use the same image as used in this tutorial.
