You make an effort and overlay various details with stickers or emojis before posting photos, and then apps should be able to delete exactly those?
Parents know it, they want to post photos of their family, they want to show their friends on Facebook etc. how great the beach vacation was or how cute the little one is kicking around in their baby bathtub.
But parents also know that you shouldn't show all the details on social media - especially when it comes to children. So they use the tools that various photo editing apps offer and cover faces or sometimes body parts with emojis or other stickers. It is still possible to capture the entire scenery and friends will know who or what is hiding behind the covered parts. Strangers don't have to know this and - to protect privacy or the children - they shouldn't even find out.
Now a posting on Facebook that there are apps that could remove these stickers. As if they were never there.
Apparently there are apps that allow you to remove stickers from Facebook pictures.
I googled and found it to be true.After a little research, I found that the only way to censor your images is to delete them using the eraser tool.
Adding stickers adds layers to the image that can be easily removed with the right apps or software.Please be careful when posting pictures of your babies that have been censored with Facebook stickers xx
Admin <3
JPG file format
If you post a photo on Facebook, the JPG file format is the most common variant. PNG files may also be present. However, the two file formats have one thing in common: they are saved as one layer .
Level? How? What? The claim suggests that when you place a sticker on a photo, it is “laid over the photo” and remains in that position even if you save the photo and sticker as a JPG. Now there should be apps that can recognize these positions/layers or levels and thus remove them.
But this is not possible with JPG files. For example, if a sticker is dragged over the face of someone depicted, the parts of the image (pixels) underneath are covered. However, in such a way that there is not just a “thinking over” but that the pixels of the original image are, so to speak, replaced by the pixels of the sticker. The original image content/pixels are simply no longer present after saving.
However, the posting now states that “Admin” would have found such tools in a Google search. So we also turned on Google and searched.
Photo tools
Among other things, we found a page that lists several photo tools (online or as an app) for removing unwanted image content. The page title also suggests that this is exactly what we are looking for (and what “admin” may have found): “The best tools to remove emojis from photos in 2021”
Some of the tools we know, others we don't. Examples of how to proceed are also shown for the various tools. What is missing, however, are the results. So let's try using the photo from the posting to see what happens if we want to make the heart disappear in the picture.
First of all, we choose two online tools and then a recommended app. And here – tadaaaa! – the results are:
Really great. Yes, that's right, the heart sticker is now gone. But that means we can't see whether the baby is a girl or a boy.
Because what do these tools do? They replace the pixels that we mark during processing with adjacent or similar pixels. The tools are not so clever that they can restore pixels that were there at some point.
These tools may be suitable when an emoji is placed on a neutral background such as a blue sky. Then they replace it with adjacent and similar pixels (also blue sky) - this works very well. These tools are also very suitable for finer processing. However, none of them can restore missing image content.
Conclusion
No, there are no apps or other image editing software that can restore image content/pixels that have been removed or overlaid with emojis or stickers.
Attaching emojis and stickers to a photo - neither through apps or image editing tools on Facebook etc. - does not add an additional layer, which is then still there after saving as a JPG.
To remove emojis and restore the original image content, it would require extensive retouching work, but only if you know what was first visible under the sticker. No human or AI can see clairvoyantly and thus restore what is simply no longer there.
The word “sticker” is probably taken a little too literally here. These are not real-life ones that can be removed after sticking them on - albeit with some effort.
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