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gunzelguy
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August 2, 2018
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Removing red mark from B&W photo

  • August 2, 2018
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I have some black and white prints that have been photographed in color. There is a prominent red stamp on the image and because of where the stamp is positioned it is impossible to clone the red stamp away. How do I isolate the red so that I can easily remove it? I've tried converting it to LAB mode and then making the lightness and A channel not visible which does remove the red but I cannot save it. I know this will probably be a simple thing to do but I'm lost, please help!

Mark

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    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    August 2, 2018

    Can you post a sample image?

    Here I desaturated an RGB image and added a red stamp.  I did  a select Color Range Red followed by 5 Fill Content aware.  In this case it worked quite well. I use Crtl+H to hide the marching ants so I could see how each content aware fill worked. An action could be recorded and batched if it works for your images.

    JJMack
      JJMack
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      JJMackCommunity Expert
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      August 2, 2018

      Looking at my Image at 100% zoom I saw some red was still there so I expanded the selection 1px and did two more Fill content aware.

      JJMack
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