At any time, you can go in and revert to the original copy of the photo. Windows Live Photo Gallery always saves your original image, without any retouching or other edits you make. Try again, but this time select a slightly different space around the date field (bigger box, smaller box, more space above the date, more space below, etc.) Ctrl-Z: hold down the Ctrl key, and type the letter z.Also, sometimes Retouch will screw up the area inside the box instead of making it pretty. It’s better to draw a box around each part of the date: year first, then month, then day. Note that the box can only be a limited size, but that’s okay. When you let go of the mouse button, the Retouch feature will automagically “erase” the date and fill it with colors similar to the surrounding section of the photo. To erase the date stamp, you just click and drag to draw a box over the reddish date. Now you just need to click on the Retouch button: You can use your mouse wheel or the slider in the lower right-hand corner of the window to zoom in on your pesky date stamp: Next, you just need to find and open your photo in Photo Gallery. Once Photo Gallery is installed, fire it up. If that link doesn’t work anymore, see here! If it doesn’t show up, head over to Microsoft’s site and download the Windows Photo Gallery installer. To see if you have it already installed, click the Start button (Windows logo) and type: Live It’s much fancier than the default Windows 7 photo viewer, but still very easy to use to help organize, tag, and touch up your photo collection. This may seem kind of annoying, because who wants to learn yet more new software? But in this case, I highly recommend it. Click the links above to get the “Windows Essentials Photo Gallery”, which is the updated 2012 version! Note: This used to be called “Live Photo Gallery”, which is the Vista/2011 version. For fresh Windows 8 and 10 puters, you’ll need to download and install Windows Photo Gallery (for free) from Microsoft’s site. Now, in many cases, this software is already installed on your Windows 7 puter. The software you need is Microsoft’s own Windows Photo Gallery. Paint comes built in to Windows.įor removing date stamps, I’m afraid you might need to download some software. In the case of printing a large image to multiple pages, MS Paint is all you need. It turns out that you can easily remove a date stamp from a photo on your puter – no Photoshop required! I said no, but then I discovered a feature sitting right in front of my nose this whole time. Like me, you were probably surprised that Windows could do this – hardly anyone knew about it!įast forward to today, and a reader recently asked me if I knew of a way to remove a date stamp from a photo. This post has been one of the most popular articles on this site for quite some time now. Seven years ago, I wrote a post entitled How to Easily Print a Large Image to Multiple Pages in Windows.
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