App that helps erase liscence plate #s off of pics quickly

[Garibaldi]

I have a ton of classic car pictures that I've taken that I'm going to upload to my website at www.wiscollectorcar.com for everyone to enjoy. Before I do that though I think its probably a good precaution to erase any visible liscence plate numbers on the cars. Is there a good free app that will help me do this quickly (I've got ALOT of pics)? Right now I'm just using paint but at this rate it will take forever!!

Thanks.

[housepig]

I don't think there's a good way to batch-process them unless they are all the same size and orientation (ie the plate is in the exact same place on each pic.

I would use Gimp or Photoshop, just drag a selection box around the plate and use a Blur filter to make them unreadable. Possibly a little faster than trying to paint them out, and after the first 5 or so, you'll start getting the keystrokes under your fingers and increasing speed.

sorry I don't have a better suggestion...

[glockjs]

no quick and easy way.

use blur like housepig said.

i would say copy and paste to a seperate folder so u have originals and one's that u can mod. open as many as you can. start bluring and just hit the x to close them out and when promted to save changes just hit enter.

[jakol]

hi,
using the action pallete in photoshop will make it a little bit easier for you...all you have to do is record an action..like blurr tool >then>save>then close commmands..then stop recording....all you have to then is open your pics in photoshop...select all license plates either by lasso tool or rectangular marque...then hit play on ur recorded action for every pics....you save time on manually blurring each plates,saving and closing each pics...

i hope that helps.

[Garibaldi]

hi,
using the action pallete in photoshop will make it a little bit easier for you...all you have to do is record an action..like blurr tool >then>save>then close commmands..then stop recording....all you have to then is open your pics in photoshop...select all license plates either by lasso tool or rectangular marque...then hit play on ur recorded action for every pics....you save time on manually blurring each plates,saving and closing each pics...

i hope that helps.

Thanks for all your suggestions! Unfortunately I don't have photoshop so I can't use that action pallete option, but thanks for the tip I will remember that in the future! Right now I'm using the GIMP to do like you said, open about 15 pics at a time, blur, ctrl-s, close, repeat. Its going pretty good, unforunately still takes awhile.