[SOLVED]: How do I remove a date stamp from a digital photo?

[Member mikey777]

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Thanks everyone for your help.
After a lot of messing about, I’m able to remove the time stamp, using the heal tool in GIMP, on a virgin install of antiX19.5-base, though don’t ask me how I did it. It was a lot of random fiddling around, deleting and reinstalling things, so am unsure what I did exactly to fix it. That’s the frustrating bit. I’m sure at least some of you are more organized than that & make notes as you go. Below is the result with the heal tool:

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▪ 32-bit antix19.4-core+LXDE installed on :
- (2011) Samsung NP-N145 Plus (JP04UK) – single-core CPU Intel Atom N455@1.66GHz, 2GB RAM, integrated graphics.
▪ 64-bit antix21-base+LXDE installed on:
- (2008) Asus X71Q (7SC002) – dual CPU Intel T3200@2.0GHz, 4GB RAM. Graphics: Intel Mobile 4 Series, integrated graphics
- (2007) Packard Bell Easynote MX37 (ALP-Ajax C3) – dual CPU Intel T2310@1.46GHz, 2GB RAM. Graphics: Silicon Integrated Systems.

[Member Robin]

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mikey777 wrote:

However, running the following suggests that resynthesizer is not installed (I thought it would be installed automatically with the “sudo apt install, etc” that you advised):

$ dpkg –list resynthesizer
dpkg-query: no packages found matching resynthesizer

It actually is installed already. But as I had mentioned somewhere above, resynthesizer is not a separate package in debian, so you won’t find it that way. It lives in the package gimp-plugin-registry.

Robin wrote:

resythesizer plugins, on debian it’s found in the package gimp-plugin-registry usually

To learn what a package contains, try:

apt-cache show gimp-plugin-registry
...
* resynthesizer (2.0.3): Resynthesizer
     Gimp plugin for texture synthesis
     This gimp plugin takes samples of textures, and synthesizes larger textures
     from them.  It can be used to extend textures (including making tileable
     textures), remove objects from textures, and make themed images.
...

mikey777 wrote:

the heal and transparency tools appear to be absent …

mikey777 wrote:

It was a lot of random fiddling around, deleting and reinstalling things

Probably you’ve simply missed to add the gimp-python package to my initial listing of gimp packages:

Robin wrote:

Addition: While counterchecking I noticed gimp-python package isn’t
automatically installed as a dependency, so please add this package to the install list.

With this package missing the healing plugins won’t show up. Hence the proper command for installation would have been the one from #102374 rather than the one from #102174. Sorry for the trouble, I should have marked this more prominently. Here’s the updated list:

from #102375:
$ sudo apt-get install gimp gimp-data gimp-data-extras gimp-cbmplugs gimp-dds gimp-gluas gimp-gmic gimp-lensfun gimp-texturize gimp-plugin-registry gimp-python

mikey777 wrote:

It was a lot of random fiddling around, deleting and reinstalling things,

That’s the dafault way if something doesn’t immediately work as expected. By and by you’ll get some experience what and where in system to look for in such cases.

Great to read you’ve managed to make it work for you in the end.

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Member mikey777]

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Robin wrote:

Great to read you’ve managed to make it work for you in the end.

Thanks Robin – I think you inspired me to persevere, otherwise I would have given up a while ago!
Often, I’ve found that when I’ve ‘healed’ an area, after removing the unwanted object, the dotted-line representing the heal-selection area remains around the healed area. How do I get rid of this in a simple straightforward way – I don’t see a a heal-selection-remove button …

• This reply was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by mikey777.

▪ 32-bit antix19.4-core+LXDE installed on :
- (2011) Samsung NP-N145 Plus (JP04UK) – single-core CPU Intel Atom N455@1.66GHz, 2GB RAM, integrated graphics.
▪ 64-bit antix21-base+LXDE installed on:
- (2008) Asus X71Q (7SC002) – dual CPU Intel T3200@2.0GHz, 4GB RAM. Graphics: Intel Mobile 4 Series, integrated graphics
- (2007) Packard Bell Easynote MX37 (ALP-Ajax C3) – dual CPU Intel T2310@1.46GHz, 2GB RAM. Graphics: Silicon Integrated Systems.

[Member Robin]

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mikey777 wrote:

Often, I’ve found that when I’ve ‘healed’ an area, after removing the unwanted object, the dotted-line representing the heal-selection area remains around the healed area. How do I get rid of this in a simple straightforward way

Ctrl+Shift+A or select from menu Selection the entry Nothing.

mikey777 wrote:

I don’t see a a heal-selection-remove button …

😆

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Member mikey777]

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Thanks again Robin…
Just another screenshoot to show anyone new to resynthesizer (like me) what the finished work looks like for a slightly more complicated removal. For time-stamp removal I used 400% zoom, for the white-wire removal I used 1600% zoom (maximum zoom setting allowable)

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▪ 32-bit antix19.4-core+LXDE installed on :
- (2011) Samsung NP-N145 Plus (JP04UK) – single-core CPU Intel Atom N455@1.66GHz, 2GB RAM, integrated graphics.
▪ 64-bit antix21-base+LXDE installed on:
- (2008) Asus X71Q (7SC002) – dual CPU Intel T3200@2.0GHz, 4GB RAM. Graphics: Intel Mobile 4 Series, integrated graphics
- (2007) Packard Bell Easynote MX37 (ALP-Ajax C3) – dual CPU Intel T2310@1.46GHz, 2GB RAM. Graphics: Silicon Integrated Systems.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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@Robin and @mikey777 – I’ve said it many times and I’ll say it again.
We have many talented people here, representing people and interests
all over the world. Though many of us very good at many things,
nobody I have ever met knows EVERYTHING in spite of great intelligence
and considerable effort and perseverance.

What the two of you have demonstrated is an area where I have
no current expertise whatsoever, and it is one of countless
others that I know nothing about.

I’m very grateful for your example in sharing with our community.

Sincere thanks!

--
Brian Masinick

[Member mikey777]

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@Brian Masinick
Thanks Brian for your kind words – always a pleasure to share on this forum.
As moderator, please could you mark this thread as [SOLVED] – I seem unable to do this – thanks again.

• This reply was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by mikey777.

▪ 32-bit antix19.4-core+LXDE installed on :
- (2011) Samsung NP-N145 Plus (JP04UK) – single-core CPU Intel Atom N455@1.66GHz, 2GB RAM, integrated graphics.
▪ 64-bit antix21-base+LXDE installed on:
- (2008) Asus X71Q (7SC002) – dual CPU Intel T3200@2.0GHz, 4GB RAM. Graphics: Intel Mobile 4 Series, integrated graphics
- (2007) Packard Bell Easynote MX37 (ALP-Ajax C3) – dual CPU Intel T2310@1.46GHz, 2GB RAM. Graphics: Silicon Integrated Systems.

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