Remove text from pic, but leave background?

[manthing]

hiya,

i have an image which i want to alter. basically, i want to remove the text from the image, but somehow leave the background.

currently, i'm copying the nearby area surrounding the text fileds and then pasting these blocks on top of the text. of course this is too rough and stands out a mile. is there a way to "smooth" the area?

and, don't laugh now lord smurf, but i have only got paint shop pro to hand. can i do any tricks with this package?

or is photoshop the way to go?
and if so, what is the technique to remove the text?

again, i'm deeply in debt to you & the team.

[allaboutduncan]

Here are some Paint Shop Pro tutorials I found.
http://www.baycongroup.com/paint_shop_pro/tutorials.htm

In Photoshop, to do this you would use the Clone Brush. I haven't used Paint Shop in years, but it appears to have a similar feature.
http://www.baycongroup.com/paint_sho...e_download.htm

The trick is to zoom in, go slow, and use a small brush.

[manthing]

zoom ... slow ... small brush ...
got it.

in other words, dang hard to do, requires infinite patience and even more time.

and here i thought a "magic wand" solution existed.

ah well. cheers for the help dunc me ol mukka