DB, it doesn't just remove watermarks, it removes anything you don't want in a picture. Say that you have a image of a lovely lake, but it has boat in the image that ruins the picture for you. With this program you can remove the boat and have an unspoiled lake. That is what I use this program for. The version from 2017 has a few quirks and I hope this version has corrected some of them. I am certainly getting this program.

Velvet,
Then you should rename the program to object remover as the title suggests removing copyright notices from photos that are usual stamps.

dan , You can always try to remove that, but I doubt that all notes are still perfectly readable.

dan , NO!

dan ,

Doubt it. You probably want to use a "normal" image editing program that can allow you to play with the upper and lower pixel value thresholds for things like contrast, brightness, etc.

Then you set those thresholds such that the musical notations become a more solid black, and force the "background" watermark/stain to become a more solid white. The printed result should look close to a new piece of black-and-white sheet music.

HMarx,
Thanks for your thoughts.
Dan

It appears it's doing something random or they have now fixed the link, the first time downloading I got photostampremover*.exe now it is giving me the photostampremove*.zip and asking me to submit to get free reg code on install, I enter my email address it says check email for registration link but didn't get one, so I hit back on my browser to go back to enter my email address and it then says I'm approved or whatever and asks me to enter my name then the next page gives me a reg code, lol, think they need to work a little harder to make sure their stuff works properly before telling people to do this or that. Never did get the registration email...oh well, at least it gave me a reg code in a round about way although it really doesnt tell you what version (ie, personal, pro, etc. it listed 3 different versions at first, now I Can't find that page of the different versions for it on their website). it is and their website does not have a 49.99 version I can find anywhere, again, not a properly done gotd.

Scott, yes... both good and bad... the photostamp removal process is entirely dependent upon the complexity of the phot content and the stamp to be removed ... it can be good with some images and bad with others. The best one can say with any review of this type of content sensative program is whether the user interface is intuative and non-glitchy and there are no glaring bugs and a sufficient range of controls to tweak problem photo stamps.

Practically the magic wand colour selection tool is not like real graphics programs magic wand in this case selecting a single object surrounded by NON-MATCHING colours will also select matching colours in any region of the photo so it is completely unusable to select one object of a particular colour range while not affecting similar colours elsewhere!

I found this has no sanity protection on its memory allocation requests by loading a 8858 x 12402 pixel JPG file exported from ronyasoft poster designer at maximum resolution (just under a 110Mpixel image)... and this program crashes when attempting to remove a selection signaled by the C++ runtimes requesting to terminate the program in an unusual manner... inpainting is very poor compared to the actual program called Inpaint given away by a different vendor a few times in tha past making completely illogical choices of content to use to inpaint the selected area. But there are other options than inpainting... for me texture generation mode is a processing failure it apears to be stuck in some kind of loop and will result in me using End Task in task manger if this does not do something soon as it's already been over 5 mins trying to max out a single core.

I tested ALL methods on some black text on a section of light grey background next to a person with no overlap so a very simple stamp removal for any photo object removal tool since the background is solid no gradients or textures... and inpaint failed abysmally, Hole filling ignores the selction area restraints and send the entire background colour black... Quick removal also failed abysmally and clone tool while better provides no numerical sample of clone source to ensure the background to be cloned is exactly the same as the background of the target area and no blending tool to smooth any transitions... and of course the texture generation mode stalls at around 15% on the progress bar and procedes no further on this 2,888 x 2,888 pixel image. Which I do not consider to be a particularly high resolution image

Note this is a 32bit program so running it under a 64bit version of windows will NOT give it access to more memory no matter how much RAM you have installed.

Nigel, VirusTotal gives the following information:

Compilation Timestamp 2016-04-06 14:39:04
Comments This installation was built with Inno Setup.
Date signed 5:50 AM 11/15/2018
Creation Time 2016-04-06 14:39:04
Signature Date 2018-11-15 05:50:00

Version 10.2 was given away here on December 20, 2018.
I have not yet checked if today's version is the same.

krypteller, About says 10.2:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgvqmv301oly3zg/About.png