OBSCURED PICTURE

[Kingswood]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 20 June 2014 at 05:04

[marshalla]

That depends entirely on the format (storage) of the picture. If it's something like .jpg it's very unlikely that anything can be recovered, if it's a paint/retouch package's "native" format then it may be layered and easily recovered.

[RobDickinson]

Load it into your Esper machine and enhance!

[GetCarter]

Kingswood said:

Dear all, wonder if you can help me , is it possible to 'uncover' a solid piece of a a blocked out picture? Not sure if explained correctly - but essentially I need to uncover a part of a picture that is obscured by a solid black square?
Thanks in advance for any help

What is the extension? .bmp? .jpg? .tif? If it's any of those, then no.

[Simpo Two]

What is the square and how did it get there?

[boyse7en]

Simpo Two said:

What is the square and how did it get there?

I think we all know he has got a picture of someone's missus with no clothes on and wants to remove the censorship squares

[The_Jackal]

Are you talking like the black bars on a redacted document?
If so, no. Black pixels are black pixels with nothing underneath.
The only way there would be something underneath is if it was a layered file like a photoshop file. In which case you probably wouldn't be asking this question.

[budfox]

GetCarter said:

What is the extension? .bmp? .jpg? .tif? If it's any of those, then no.

Not true. A tif file can contain layers.

[Drumroll]

Does the OP even have the right to "remove" the square. Remember in most cases the copyright to any photograph remains with the photographer.

[Simpo Two]

He's gone...

[Kingswood]

Not sure of the format - it is a video- Simpo you are on the right lines they are censorship squares

It would help solve a significant challenge

Thanks

[rich83]

Impossible.

[andy_s]

...yet intriguing...

[Lynchie999]

censorship squares on a video eh ???

... normally censorship is there for a reason..

why don't you fill it in with an "artists interpretation" ??

[The_Jackal]

Aww, now we want to know what you think is under the black squares....
Still no chance of uncovering it though.