Remove from picture w/o damaging background

[dallasazcat]

I am trying to print the attached picture without the small TM in the lower right corner. I still want that area to have the same background color when it's printed. This isn't an issue when the background is white of course, but if I simply erase the TM, it will show a white spot where I removed it. Is there a simple way?

I am using Paint Shop Pro X9

Thank you!

[Ken Berry]

Welcome to the forum!

As for your question, it has a very simple answer: use the Clone tool. See my attached image -- the red arrow points at the tool. Click the little downward pointing arrow beside it and Clone will be the first option.

You will probably need to adjust things like the size of the tool (green arrow) but play around with the other settings to get what your require.

I've also attached your image without the TM -- which took about 10 seconds to do with the clone tool.

[dallasazcat]

Thank you so much!! I assumed it was easy and you proved that!

[JoeB]

I just used the rectangle selection tool and made a selection that just fit around the TM then hit the Magic Fill button and it's done. I think it's a lot faster and certainly easier than having to fiddle with various settings for the Clone brush. But you do have to make sure you keep the selection as small as possible or it might pick up some of the white from the A. If it does just select that little white bit again with a small rectangle and Magic Fill will complete the job.

Actually, here's the procedure I usually use when wanting to use Magic Fill with part of an image that has a fair amount of the desired fill color or texture but where the part I want to fill is also close to some color/texture I want to exclude. It would work with this one also. Use the rectangular selection to select the portion of the image you wish to fill (in this case the TM) as well as a good portion of the color or texture that you wish to fill with (in this case the blue background but none of the A). Promote the selection to a layer. Then select the part you want to fill (the TM in this case) and use Magic Fill. This procedure is a good way to isolate both the part of the image to be filled and the surrounding color or texture you want to fill it with from other parts of a busy/complicated image that might otherwise end up becoming part of the fill.