Remove a watermark from a moving people

[mattiag28274242]

Hi guys,

I need to remove a watermark from from a moving people, I tried with a clone stamp, but the light change and the results it's not so good, so I tried to mask a logo e replace it with an another part of the short but also this doesn't work..how can I do? I'm working on the images below

[Dave Merchant]

It will take a lot of frame-by-frame work to make the results "invisible", because After Effects cannot predict the shadows that would be present underneath that logo (we don't have Content Aware like Photoshop).

My initial question would be if it's really necessary to remove it, or just to make it unrecognizable. You could use color qualifiers to change the red into something else, and a basic rotoscoped or tracked mask with a blur/mosaic to obscure the shape in the center of the logo.

[mattiag28274242]

Yes it's necessary to remove it, is ti better to do that in AE or Photoshop? I'm more comfortable with clone stamp in PH..

[P.M.B]

This is just nitpicking but for future reference that's not a water mark, it's a logo.

A watermark is a semi transparent mark or logo to prevent IP theft. For example:

[mattiag28274242]

ahn ok, sorry I'm Italian but anyway thank you!!

[Dave Merchant · Accepted solution]

Either way it'll require frame-by-frame manipulation. Without seeing the footage it's hard to say, but creating a 'patch' segment of the wetsuit to cover the logo will be easier in Photoshop using the Clone and Content Aware tools, you would then save that patch as a PSD or TIFF, and in AE track the patch over the footage for a few frames (until it no longer matches), then go back to Photoshop, make another patch for the next frame, and repeat. Hopefully each patch will look OK for a decent number of frames, so you don't need to make a new one every time.