How to Remove Text from Image in Photoshop

This tutorial is going to show you how to remove text from an image in Photoshop.

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In this tutorial you are going to learn how to remove text from image in Photoshop.

Step # 1 -- Deleting a Text Layer

Before we get into more complicated ways of removing text in Photoshop, you should make sure you can't remove it very easily. Check the layers panel and see if the text has a separate layer, here you can see that it does and if you simply click on this and press "Delete" on the keyboard the text will disappear, problem solved. However, if the text and layer have been merged things become a bit more complicated.

Step # 2 -- Merging the Text onto the Background

To make things harder lets press "Control" and "Z" to bring back that text and then merge it with the background image by clicking "Layers" then "Flatten Image". Now that text has become merged with the background and any part of the image that was behind the text has been lost. Fortunately, one of the coolest tools in Photoshop can be used to fix this situation -- the "Content Aware" tool.

Step # 3 -- Selecting the Text

Select the "Magic Wand Tool" from the toolbar on the left and click in the first letter of the text, it will become selected. Now, hold down the "Shift" key and repeat this process for all of the other letters. Once you have done that click "Select" in the main menu, navigate to "Modify" and click expand. Enter 3 pixels and then click "OK".

Step # 4 -- Using Content Aware Fill

Now, press "Shift" and "Backspace" on the keyboard and in the "Fill" window that appears select "Content-Aware" from the drop down box and click "OK". Photoshop will work some magic for a moment and then the text will disappear from the screen, only the selection will be left. Press "Control" and "D" and the selection will disappear and unless someone looks very closely it will be impossible to tell there was ever text there and that is how to remove text from image in Photoshop.

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in this tutorial you are going to learn
how to remove text from an image in
Photoshop before we get into more
complicated ways of removing text in
Photoshop you should make sure that you
can't remove that very easily check the
layers panel and see if the text has a
separate layer here you can see that it
does and if you simply click on this and
press delete on the keyboard
the text will disappear problem solved
however if the text and layer have been
merged things become a bit more
complicated to make things harder
let's press ctrl-z to bring back the
text and then merge it with the
background image by clicking layers then
flatten image now that the text has been
merged with the backgrounds any part of
the image that was behind the text has
been lost
fortunately one of the coolest tools in
Photoshop can be used to fix this
situation the content aware tool select
the magic one tool from the toolbar on
the left and click in the first letter
of the text it will become selected now
hold the shift key and repeat the
process for all the other letters
once you have done that click select in
the main menu navigate to modify and
click expand
enter 3 pixels and then click ok now
press shift + backspace on the keyboard
and in the fill window that appears
select content aware from the drop-down
box and click OK Photoshop will work
some magic for a moment and then the
text will disappear from the screen only
the selection will be left
press ctrl + D and the selection will
disappear and unless someone looks very
closely
it will be impossible to tell that there
was ever text there and that is how to
remove text from image in Photoshop