Some weeks ago, I added text to a photo in the 'Paint program' Now i'v decided I want to delete it. How?

Question

Rubbing it out or painting over the words give a very poor result. How can I just 'delete' the text as in a Word document? Thank you, from computer novice.

Answer 1

a lesson learnt?

never save over the original.
paint over or crop the picture are easiest and best solutions i'm afraid.

Answer 2

Well as rightly said by Martin, it is a bit of a tedious process, but the text can definetely be removed. You will have to use the right techniques. The most important departure point being to blow up your view (a lot, up to 200% or 300% / large bitmap) were you can see the blocks individually. You then choose a large writing instrument, for example the largest paintbrush, and colour out the blocks of the text, with the appropriate closest matching original colours. You will have to move between small bitmap/smaller view and larger view, in order to see the correctness of your progress in the smaller view. If an individual text letter or two is on a one-coloured uninterrupted scene, you can also employ faster methods: for example select the two letters with the select tool, cut them, and just recolour in the white gap with the appropriate colour.

Answer 3

You can't.
It's just like you used a pencil on a photograph ... actually it is worse.
Paint is a very basic image software that does its job on a very basic level. That is, an image inside paint is nothing but a collection of colored pixels. If you add text to an image the pixels of the image are replaced by the ones of the text.

So, if you don't have the original image you will have to cope with - what you call - poor results. Sure, if you take long enoug you might be able to restore the image ... I doubt the time involved is worth it.

Answer 4

You can't. A paint program is just that. It's not like a "draw" program (or a "word processor") where there are objects you can manipulate.

Think of what you did as if you took paint and drew over a painting. You can't remove the top layer without doing damage to what's underneath.

Sorry, it's still there. Unless you have the original.