photo Cloning

[veteran pete]

I have a photo with a date and time stamp in a shadow area which I need to lose. In p-shop I would clone the shadow area. I have tried in AP to do this but somehow it doesn't seem to work. As you will see my tag is "veteran pete" and with tongue in cheek I humbly ask for help from you, the younger experts. 

[MEB]

Hi veteran pete,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Make sure you are working with a Pixel layer. You can check this looking at the label after the layer's name in the Layers panel. If it's identified as an Image layer type, right-click on it and select Rasterise. You can then perform pixel based operations on that layer. You can also try to use the Inpainting Tool to remove the date and time stamp. It's under the Healing Brush Tool popup menu (click on the small black arrow to access it). Let me know if you still have trouble.

 

[veteran pete]

Yes it;s a pixel layer with a black fill layer below to give a fine black border. Not flattened. I was expecting to be able to export it as a JPG so did so. I then thought that I could make a copy (with three other at the size required  (95mmX137mm on A4 which has sufficient room) there is an example on the printer Epson XP-55 but the sizes are smaller and I cannot find a way of editing them. I now feel stupid and frustrated. I also thought that I could make a template for use in the future so, my request to the forum. Thank you for help thus far I feel that it should be an  easy problem but it has taken all day today  Pete

[R C-R]

AP also has a Clone Tool (the rubber stamp icon near the top of MEB's screenshot), so if you were using a similar Photoshop tool for this  you might try that.