Remove text image from .JPG

No.

By any chance are you trying to take the embeded url off an image you got from the www?

Yes! UnexplainedWays....

yaj

So what you're saying you want to do is take an image that someone else has (and probably owns) and remove their watermark from it so that you can use it elsewhere without their permission and without referencing the site it came from?

Hi! ClicklCentric,

I'm not exactly sure if you are attempting to answer my technical question or putting a spin to the question such that it sounds detrimental to the subject matter and the community who dilligently participate in this forum.

If YOU know the answer, please suggest or recommend.

Here is my question which I repeat again.
Is there any way or utility available to remove the watermark image from the .JPG file?

The developer/software company will be more then glad to sell it to me, in the same manner I develop and sell my complex software applications for the end-users.

Yaj

I'm with ClickCentric with the No, the image is not layered and can simply remove the watermark and have the nice picture underneath, the pixels that were underneath are now gone.  So to get a good quality image, do as ClickCentric said and ask them for the origional.

However, it 'can' be done, but you have to be good @ photoshop by replecating what u think should be behind the watermark and put it over the watermark.  Can be done, and can look dodge if not done correctly.

I've been playing with photoshop for some time and i am yet to be able to do that.

It really depends on what's behind the watermark.  If it's say, sand, then it would be easy to do.  Or if it's a solid color, it would be really easy to do.  But if it's something detailed, it could be next to impossible.

I also agree with ClickCentric. Get the original from the source. If they don't have the original, there are touchup artists who can recreate it, but a novice would not be able to. We have an artist here who has added legs to people after removing the foreground object. But it's a special talent.

I am closing this thread and do appreciate everybody's contribution to attempt to answer the question.

My main vested interest was to focus on the "available technology" rather then get into a spin which clickcentric jumped to imemdiate conclusions otherwise. This is a technology forum. I really do not care about legal/illegal matters, as it is not my foretake to play games with somebody else's property. Although, I do appreciate his contribution and sharing.

I have learnt that there is limited technology available to do so and if challeneged ...you better be an excellent "picture perfect" designer. This also means I can now publish my own pictures with the watermark and assured to be safe and not tampered with.


yaj

I didn't actually jump to any conclusions.  My first answer was the answer that I stood by.  And this forum does care about the legality of matters discussed on it, which is why I brought that up.  Now if you had asked the actual question you wanted answered originally...my original response would have still been the same.  But I would have been less inclined to keep on the issue of motive for doing so.  It's like asking someone who works in bank security how to break into a bank.  While you may be someone else in bank security wanting to know if your methods are good enough, the person you're asking doesn't know that.