Hi all,

What is the best way/easiest way to remove the brand names from the photograph so that they are not rejected for copyright?
 
Recently my images of high rise got rejected by most of the sites citing trademark  issue. Then I looked closely, the name of few aircons was easy visible. The high rise is not a famous building. It is just another building so I am pretty sure it is not rejected for copyright of the building.  One of a similar photo got accepted and sold as well on SS.

I am looking for easy way to delete/remove these names/logos etc

Thanks.

Clone is not always the best or the fastest.
Personally I prefer these:


Or a combination of these with the clone tool

Lower the opacity of the clone brush on photoshop try 85% or less to blend it in. I found it helpful when I started to get photoshop training.

So much depends on what's around the object you have to remove. I use a variety of methods, clone, patch tool, gradient, paintbrush with colour constantly resampled, etc.
It usually helps if you have a feather on your selection (experiment) and make sure the noise of your replacement matches the noise of the surrounding area.

I use the clone and the patch tool.  The patch tool works best if you can select the problem area by itself and not cut over other lines..

For dust spots against a blue sky or removing extraneous objects from plainish backgrounds, I just draw round them with the marquee tool and hit delete (content-aware should be the default). Gone.

I use Lightroom. Will try heal and clone again to see if I can use it properly

Thats taking the long road. I know my way around Lightroom and Photoshop and healing and cloning in Lightroom takes a lot longer, and is not nearly as easy as Photoshop because you cant feather in Lightroom which is quite important. That feature is added to LR5 though. And the results in LR are not always good enough for stock images.

I use Lightroom. Will try heal and clone again to see if I can use it properly

I also mostly use the spot healing brush in Lightroom. It takes a bit of practise to understand the difference between clone and heal, all the controls you have available to you and how to use them. Rather than trying to explain it all, here is a link to a really good video that will help get you up to speed.

How to use the Spot Removal Tool including the difference between clone and heal options. http://laurashoe.com/videos/Lightroom-spot-removal/Lightroom-spot-removal.html

Note that this video uses LR4 and there have been some significant additions in LR5 but so far as I know, everything in the video should be the same in both versions. The video also applies to LR3 if anyone is still using it.