What is the best tool to just remove a small part of image?

[TiffW]

I realize this will be a ridiculously basic question for most of you since I'm very new to Paint Shop Pro, but I've been trying all sorts of tools today trying to find the most efficient way to do something, and I'm just stumped.

I sell clothing online, and I'm looking for the best way to quickly remove the price from an image of the retail tag. Everything I've tried seems to be tedious, so I don't think I've got the right tool so far. I just want to be able to do what was called a "Smart Erase" in my old Digital Image Pro program -- I simply drew a quick outline around the area to be erased, and then clicked on the erase button, and the price was gone off the tag (it inserted the same background area there).

Can anyone please recommend the best tool to use, and perhaps, even how to best use it? Thank you!

[df]

The Object Remover tool in PSP X2 and X3 may be just what you need. It's part of the Clone toolset. Click the down arrow on the clone tool in the tool bar (between the touchup and airbrush/paintbrush tools) in the full editor (PSP X3) and select the object remover. You will draw your selection, then you'll need to choose the donor area for the clone to select from. Still sort of tedious but that's about the closest thing I can think of.

Search Object Remover in the help section, it's under removing flaws and objects.

[LeviFiction]

Or, you can make a selection and hit the "Delete" key and it'll fill the selection with the current background color. It's not an actual tool in PSP.

Let me see if I can explain this properly. In PSP there are two kinds of raster (photo) layers: Background and Raster. The Background layer cannot have any transparency so if you attempt to erase something in the background layer 1 of 2 things will happen. Either it'll convert the background layer into a raster layer essentially giving it transparency (try using the eraser and you'll see what I mean) or it'll use the background color defined in the materials palette to fill in that area.

If you have just opened the image and have made no changes to it then it should, by default, be a background layer. If you want you can open up the layers palette and double check. So if you just use the selection tool, and then hit the delete key (or use the edit menu Edit->Clear) it should fill in that area for you.

What's the difference? Tools have special requirements to work, so if those requirements aren't met they try to force the requirements or give you an error or a prompt. Commands, on the other hand, while they do also have requirements, will either give you an error or work around the problem. So "Clear" will delete pixels on a raster layer or fill them in with the background color on a background layer. Where as the eraser tool only works on raster layers.

Of course that only does solid colors. If it looks great then fine but with photos it does have the potential to look ugly that way so Df's method is really nice because it samples from the image itself. But that should be closer to what you're used to with your old program.