Please, does anyone know how to keep the date from showing up when I print photos?
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), June 2013 replacement by Apple
Can you describe the process you're using to print? A date should not usually print on a photo unless it has a "burned in" date from an older digital camera.
Matt
Hi, Matt,
The photos in question are four years old, shot with a Casio. An example of how I'm going about simply trying to print a portrait-orientation, color photo on 8 1/2" x 11" HP everyday glossy photo paper:
In the album, I select the photo. Command-P to bring up print window. Choose 8" x 10" and "photo paper from Main Tray" pops up by default.
Voilá! There is the date, right where I don't want to see it. Actually, I don't want to see it printed at all, anywhere!
OK, but what program/application are you using? iPhoto doesn't have such a datestamp function.
Matt
Oddly enough, I'm using only iPhoto. Which was the program into which the photos were uploaded from the Casio.
Yoicks. I am confused.
And you're absolutely sure the date doesn't appear on the image until you go to print it? Try a test. Drag the photo out of iPhoto to the desktop (it won't be removed from iPhoto, just copied), and then double-click on the image on the desktop to open it in Preview. Do you see the date there?
If you do, then the camera has burned it into the image, and the only way to remove it easily would be to crop the image to exclude it. You can do that in iPhoto.
Matt
Thanks, Matt. Evidently we can blame it on the Casio, since the date shows up in Preview/on the desktop. I had tried to get rid of it, by the way, with the Retouch function, but it looks like the photographic equivalent of a hand-written paper with eraser "crumbs" where the pencil had been. Sadly, cropping would kill some of the necessary parts of the photo (a welter of road signs in a little town on the Burren in Ireland). I have Photoshop Elements, but for the LIFE of me I cannot master it.... Humbling.
Anyway, thanks very much. I will click LIKE since I imagine that's the thing to do, but I don't like the fact that the darn date is there, just your kindness in coaching me through this effort!
Mary Beth
(momoclare, as it were; my husband is the dadoclare, and this is a gift for him)
Hi Mary Beth
That does make sense ... older cameras (and some modern cameras) have that feature ... all new digital cameras save the date invisibly in metadata in the image, so iPhoto knows exactly when it was taken (provided the camera date is set correctly...) and there's no longer any need to "burn in" the timestamp.
iPhoto's image editing functions are fairly rudimentary - other applications have clone tools which might do a better job at removing unwanted parts of the image. You could also look at InPaint (a demo is available before you purchase) which claims to do that.
good luck!
Matt
I don't want the date to print on photos
