#remove logos

*Note: removing the logos combined with good coloring makes the logo less noticeable. I always remove logos before I sharpen, denoise, color, etc*

First Method - Blurring the Logo:

This method is really easy and straightforward. Blurring the sharp logos help make them look less noticeable

I will be blurring the channel logos on this gif scene of Hanbin

Step 1: Convert To Video Timeline- 

For the first method you must be in Video Timeline mode. The picture above shows the steps to convert your frame animation to video timeline. Once your animation is a smart object you need to duplicate it; this will be your blurred layer. Because the bottom logo pops on later, I duplicated the smart object again, so I can blur this layer separately

Step 2: Select The Logo-

Select the logo by using the rectangular marquee tool or lasso tool then press the “Add layer mask” button (as shown in the gif above). After you make the layer mask, click on the layer thumbnail to select it so that you can blur the image and not the mask

Step 3: Blur-

Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and change the radius setting until the logo is blurred to your liking

Step 4: Trim Duration of Blur-

If you have a logo that is temporarily on the screen you may want to trim the duration of the blur. Since the bottom logo showed up later, I repeated steps 1-3 and dragged the end of the video timeline layer to the time that the bottom logo appears 

This is the result 

Second Method - Using a Content-Aware Fill script:

Unlike blurring, with content-aware fill you never know exactly what the result will look like. With content-aware fill, Photoshop fills in a selection with random parts of the image in close proximity to the selection. Because the algorithm is random, each time you run this script it will produce a different result

This method works best for scenes that do not have a lot of detail near the logo (e.g., gradients, solid colors, blurriness, etc.) and/or small logos

*Note: This method was tested on PS CC 2014 & 2017 previous versions might not work. Also, I noticed that 2017 did a better job at removing the logo. I recommend using a newer version of PS for this method* 

I will be removing the “Seventeen” text from this gif scene of Wonwoo. Sorry for the quality... inkigayo ain’t shit

*You will need to download the .jsx Photoshop script file from this folder*

Step 1: Install Script-

You don’t have to install the script, but if you want it to show up in the file menu for easy access instead of browsing for it, copy the file to C:\Program Files\Adobe\[your version of ps]\Presets\Scripts

Step 2: Convert To Frame Animation-

For the first method you must be in Frame Animation mode. The picture above shows the steps to convert video timeline to frame animation

Step 3: Make Selection and Save Current State-

As I mentioned before, Content-Aware Fill is unpredictable, so you may have to run the script more than once to get the result you desire. The only problem is you can only press Ctrl+Z so many times, and by default PS only stores 50 history states. If you have more than 49 frames being processed, you will not be able to return to the state your animation was in before you ran the script. The solution is to make a snapshot of the current state before you run the script

Delete the frames you do not need, make your selection with a marquee tool or lasso tool, and then open the history window and click the camera icon to save the current history state. No matter how many frames the script processes, you can always click on “Snapshot 1” to restore the state before the script was ran

Step 4: Run the Script-

Start the script by clicking the menu item or browse for where you have saved it. The script will pop up 3 prompts: 

The first asks you to verify that you are in frame animation mode and you have selected the logo

The second asks what frames you want to process. You enter this in a,b format. For example, If you only want to remove the logo on frames 1 through 10, you would enter 1,10. If you want to process all frames just press ENTER on the keyboard

The third asks if you want to use color adaptation (color adaptation is not available for PS versions older than PS CC 14). If you enter ‘y’, Photoshop will attempt to blend the fill with the surrounding colors more. Sometimes it looks better sometimes it doesn’t. Test it to see if you like using it

...or you could just press enter a bunch of times until the prompts go away

This is optional, but sometimes after the script runs, you may want to use the spot healing brush tool to fix some errors content-aware made

This is the result. Here, content-aware fill does a pretty decent job because the background is a gradient and his hair does not have much detail due to the trash source quality.

In this example you can clearly see... the Content-Aware script is not flawless. If you look closely, you can see that Bobby’s mouth ended up on his neck sjkjskjsk. To fix this problem, You can make a different selection and run the script again hoping that you get good results, use the healing brush tool, or give up like me and just blur it instead.

I have put a .zip folder with psds of the un-altered gif frames of Hanbin and Wonwoo in my Tutorial Resource Folder. You may use them for practice or whatever you please