Removing a Television Watermark
April 22, 2006
Attention: Before I start this tutorial, I am going to say first that this is NOT intended for use of taking someone else's image(s) from the website or any other source and taking credit for it as your own. I use these tricks for if I want to use this as an icon or just a screenshot for a website (since I take my own screenshots, and if I take an image from somewhere else I ALWAYS credit it, as seen in my business tutorial), but I do not use these images to take as personal crediting, and do not support the stealing of other people's images. This is only intended for use of cleaning-up images so to make them more attractive to viewers of the images.
Tutorial #1: The Simplier Television Watermark Removal
1. Start out by saving this image and then opening it in Photoshop.
2. There are two ways to do this:
a. Select the Clone Stamp tool, hold down the Alt key, and then "clone" somewhere on the carpet. Make sure it's somewhere in the middle of the carpet so to get a good amount of the carpet's color copied. Then, take the Clone Stamp and paint over the "Comedy Central" watermark. Be careful how you paint though, because it might start to make other marks. To cover those, just recopy and paint over that, until the watermark is gone. This is my result after using the Clone Stamp.
b. The other way to do this is to use the Rectangular Marquee Tool and select around the watermark. Then, still with the Rectangular Marquee highlighted, move the selection over to an area of the carpet where ALL that is in the selection is the carpet, and nothing else. Then copy the selection by going Edit>Copy or pressing Ctrl+C. Then choose Edit>Paste or press Ctrl+V and move the selection over the watermark. The move the copied selection to the watermark and cover it. If the copy doesn't seem to blend, there are a few tricks to try. For me, I found the best for this image was to select the Eye Dropper tool, then use the new color to fill the copied area. It still shows somewhat,  but depending on the size of your future image, it may or may not be too noticable. This was my outcome.
Tutorial #2: The Trickier but Still Simple Television Watermark Removal:
1. Start out by saving this image and then opening it in Photoshop.
2. For this image, select the Rectangular Marquee Tool, select an area above the watermark (large enough to cover the watermark) and again do the copy and paste steps. Then select the Move Tool and press the down arrow to nudge the new layer down until it has covered the spot. This was my outcome.
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