The 90 Degree Photo

Yes @TerryPG Easier to do this if I’m working on my computer. I’d open the photo in Paint and erase or obscure the license plate.

A bit more difficult to do on the phone, but not impossible. Open the photo and click the edit icon, click the colour palette, select thicker pencil and slide to a darker colour. Attempt to hide the license plate, but fat fingers and unsteady hands might work against you. :grinning:

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Yes @tony_b always take landscape photos

Thank you @tony_b I wondered how

I don’t know, @TerryPG , what device do you use for photography and photo editing. I use Redmi Note 9 for both. For editing, I use the built-in editor.

  1. First, I select the edit button
  2. Then I select the mosaic button
  3. Select the type of mosaic and reduce the brush size
  4. I increase the photo size to the maximum and cover up the license plate.

    Now everything is ready, I just need to save.
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Very detailed tutorial @katydarhel

Sorry @TerryPG I was lazy. So my phone is a Samsung A8 with slightly different steps to what Katy outlined, but essentially the same process.

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Thank you @katydarhel I use basic google photos for editing on my desktop and phone.

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I’m not sure @TerryPG , that Google Photos has editing tools.

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Thanks @katydarhel and @tony_b after realizing that I had the same options via a pen on Google photos , I now can easily edit license plates and faces, but I can’t do it on my desktop,( Doesn’t show up), but Can easy use the Google Photo edit program to do both either on my phone or tablet, prefer the tablet so my fat fingers don’t get in the way.

The best thing is Google Photos is free and whatever device you have or use automatically sync to Google photos.

But the main reason for the post is to thank you two, You got my inquisitive mind and brain thinking, Cheers you two.

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I’m still not sure @TerryPG if I have any photo editing tools in Google Photos. But I am very glad that my post and @tony_b 's post turned out to be useful for you.

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Yes you do @katydarhel but you can’t use desktop, must me mobile or as I said tablet, try exploring like I did

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You are right @TerryPG . I did some research on Google Photos and found some tools like a pen to edit objects that need to be covered.

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I’m just catching up with my busy notification inbox and saw your very interesting discussion here on photo editing of faces and license numbers on Google Photos @katydarhel , @TerryPG and @tony_b , and I immediately thought, hey why don’t one or all of you collectively write a post on how to do just this!

I think it would make a very interesting and useful post on Connect. Maybe you could mention other available tools on how to do this as well, as I’m sure there are more than one way to skin the cat :wink:

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I’m Totally nominating @katydarhel to do this, she already has a grip on how to do this, Please agree with me @tony_b

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Yes @TerryPG . As @AdamGT says, there’s more than one way to skin a cat - more than one method to accomplish the same result. Both @katydarhel and I can get it done, but her explanation was certainly more detailed. Excellent material to form the basis for a fuller article on Connect.

By the way, although I obscure number plates, I’m not sure how far we should go with faces. Seems a bit unnatural. My preference is to avoid publishing photos if I accidentally get recognizable faces in them.

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Thanks to @AdamGT , @TerryPG and @tony_b for kindly giving me the opportunity to write a post on the topic of hiding license plates. But it seems to me that I have said everything on this topic. It would be nice if a few Local Guides provided their own ways of covering up the signs. It would be interesting. Different author’s approaches and different devices. Then Local Guides, who would find this information useful, would be able to choose the most suitable way for them.

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Yes exactly @katydarhel this is what I suggest restructure what you have already provided perhaps even edit the comment and save the meat for this new post and turn it into a How-tos and invite others to contribute their way of doing it. Good to see that @tony_b is willing to co-host this with you Katy. I encourage you to post it as I certainly agree that this information would be very useful. As well as applying to license plates, others have touched on the dilemma of faces in photos, I know I certainly have and in fact wrote a post about it myself (see Does this ever happen to you?)!

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I Think it’s been decided and also by majority rules that @katydarhel and @tony_b will co-write an article on how to remove license plates and maybe more.

Can’t wait for what you two come up with.

And remember we’re here to have fun and I am so happy to see some fun returning to our posts . :grinning: :grin: :smiley:

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@TerryPG ,

Thanks for suggesting this post. I had looked at it briefly before (I believe it is referred to somewhere in the Storefront series). It is a great look and I have tried for it a couple of times , but the building , lighting, and signage just didn’t work. But I will definitely continue to try it as opportunity arises.

It looks like you were able to get these shots at some distance from the storefront (and few cars, were they closed?) and the perspective looks good. When I move back I seem to usually run into power lines, stoplights, etc. So I have been using a more wide angle view, but I’m not happy with the distortion. I believe Morten would want me to correct the perspective, which I am doing a lot; but it is so fiddly and while the close up view is good there is not grid overlay and my point always moves when I lift my stylus.

Thanks for your encouragement!

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