Cropping with a difference

[Davidk]

I have a class exercise involving coffee. And what I want to do is crop selected words out of an image. See the following picture

What I want to do is remove the words 'Can you spell these english words' from the image, and leave the rest unchanged. My usual practice with cropping filter really hasn't been satisfactory. Has anyone got suggestions?

[asik1]

Any better?

[Davidk]

Much better. How?

[RobertOZ]

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[asik1]

Much better. How?

We are living in an age were all can be done in software.
https://www.theinpaint.com/
Any one should have similar tool in the toolbox

[Davidk]

I tried out the software asik suggested. Much better than having extraneous lettering in the image, but . . still had a sawtooth edge to it. The demo on the website did not give that result, but it did suggest (by 'making up' the erasure from surrounding pixels) an alternative approach.

Which was, to use the lay over technique the overlay tracks use and position a 'made up' image to mask the 'to be removed' lettering in the clip on the main timeline. It took 2 carefully positioned images to do it, and if you look v closely there are discontinuities in the wood grain around the cup and saucer in the result but otherwise it looks good. But for 3 seconds, that seems good enough not to offend the eye.

See attached screenshot

[Ken Berry]

A lot of tables these days are made with different lengths of wood, so I'd have to agree that this is unlikely to detract from your short video.

I'm not sure, though, how you got the 'made up' image -- or did it come from some other image altogether? That part of the saucer is certainly crisper than the cup and coffee!

[Davidk]

The unwanted text overlaid both the wood grain at the bottom left of the cup-and- saucer image, and also the bottom part of the saucer. So, 2 steps:
- a 'clean' image of the whole cup-and-saucer (photo from part of the timeline clip which was 'clean') on woodgrain was captured and used to mask the part of the image where most of the unwanted text was (the image in the 1st overlay track). Which meant masking the whole crockery item. I tried smaller parts to mask just text, by lining up the edges on the crockery, but the result was not good. So eventually I just masked the whole item, including most of the unwanted text. That still left some text in the bottom LH corner.
- a similar 'clean' image of woodgrain suitably sized (small) used to mask the text in that bottom LH corner (2nd overlay track)

et voila.

[Ken Berry]

Thanks David. I hadn't been aware another part of the video had the cup/saucer without any overlay over the lower third...

[Davidk]

The story line is derived from journo wailing about the demise of cafes in favour of coffee, but the journo who wrote that didn't research it enough - cafe is an old word for coffee house: coffee has been the basic staple of a cafe for hundreds of years. The project contains a 60 minute clip captured from you tube, the bit here was the last 3-4 sec. And there is - briefly - a clean segment. Position time marker and take photo . . . .

[asik1]

in Hebrew we pronounce the drink and the beans as 'cafe' (ka-fe)
And coffee house, literary translated as "beit cafe"

[Ken Berry]

And to add a further bit of trivia: the origin of the coffee plant, and its name, is Kaffa in Ethiopia, which I visited while in the diplomatic service during the great famine of 1984. And it spread from there with traders and caravans to ports on the south of the Arabian peninsula. That's why that variety of coffee is perhaps incorrectly called coffea arabica. But from there it gradually reached the rest of us!