Digital Camera Pics and Date Stamp Removal

[DocX]

Hello all!

I have a number of pictures that I have taken with my digital camera that all have the date stamp on them. I thought I was just out of luck in trying to get this removed when I noticed that the thumbnails in an XP picture folder show the picture WITHOUT the date stamp. I have perused many pages on the Internet, but they all say that you just have to suck it up and use a cloning tool or crop it.

But I just can't get it out of my mind that this is some sort of layering that software is able to get rid of. I mean, it has to possible, right? Since Microsoft has done it with the thumbnails? I thought maybe the EXIF data had an option to turn the date stamp on or off, but I haven't been able to find such a thing.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance!

 

[VirtualLarry]

No, it's just that the text used for those date stamps, is so tiny, that when XP scales down the picture, and filters them, the background kind of causes them to "blend out" of the picture. So, in order to remove the date stamp, all you have to do, is scale your picture down to thumbnail size. Perfect!

On a more serious note, good luck removing them, they are indeed part of the picture.

 

[imported_Harbinger]

if you are comfortable with photoshop or something and have enough time and patience you could remove the watermarks .. there is no other way , good luck

 

[DocX]

I'm not sure about it blending out. I mean, it's no small date stamp. It's rather large. And it seems that on SOME, at least, they would not blend in and you could see the date stamp...or at least some blur of yellow. I mean, I can't see these big, bright numbers on a dark brown background, in several pictures. I have dozens of pictures. It just seems that I would see something on one of the pictures, but I don't.

It's a Kodak CX4230 taking the pictures. So if that can give you any idea of what date stamp it puts in the pictures. Maybe Microsoft knows something we don't.