Removing Date Stamp on Pictures

Hey guys! I've got a question about pictures I've taken with my digital camera. I have an adorable picture of my son that I want to scrap but the date stamp from the camera looks terrible! Is there any way to digitally get rid of it? I've got Microsoft Photo Editor, HP Image Zone, Adobe Photoshop (the free one) and MS Paint. I don't want to crop the pic either because it would take away from the picture (duh!). Can someone please help me! I like having the date stamp on the pics but I don't want it in my scrapbooks! Thanks for your help!!

I usually go in Adobe and blow the pic up right to the area of the stamp. Then I ust the eye dropper to pic up the colors in the area and then use brushes to fill it in. Then I use the blur tool to smudge a bit. HTH.

That's what I just got finished doing! It took forever though! Thanks for the help!!!!!! I thought there might be a fast way to get rid of the stamp but there may not be. I was hoping there was a magical button I could push! Thanks again for your help! That little smudge thing is kinda neat!

I'm glad it worked. All my wedding pictures has that darn date stamp on the bottom.

You know, I believe that most photo editing software has the option to add the date stamp after the fact, when editing pix. You might want to consider not having your camera do it, but add it later on the pix that you want, KWIM? Just a thought! If your photo program has a "clone" feature, that would be an option too---just clone over it. (Cloning is where your program copies an image exactly somewhere else. I use it a LOT on my pix to get rid of shadows, etc. I have even extended a couch to get rid of the garbage in the background - lol)

Here is what i do. With my camera you have the option of downloading the pics with the date or not. I usually download twice, once with date and once without. Then I go back through later and delete the pics I don't want to have the dates on. Hope that makes sense.

Thanks for those great ideas! I tried copying the picture and then laying it over the picture but that didn't work too well. I'll check my camera to see if I can download them twice. I pretty much have to have the date stamp on at least one copy of the pic because otherwise I would never remember when I took the picture. I'll check my camera for that option. I have a Kokak digital camera and that software is pretty limiting. At least, that's my opinion! Thanks again ladies!

I never print my pictures with the date stamp, the camera keeps all that info for me, all I have to do is click on the properties and it will tell me exactly when it was taken and under what conditions. I LOVE the Adobe photoshop album. We just got Elements 3.0 and it is included with that. When you download your pictures, they automatically get placed into the date they were taken on a calendar.

Also, some camera, I know our first one did, used the date in the file name. That was very convinent if I forgot just when something happened and didn't want to have to look it up on the computer. I'd just read the file name that printed on the back of the picture.

As for getting rid of a printed date, my DH did what was discribed above.