So, I've just got back from a "photo shoot", where I've been gathering images for a website I'm working on - I load them up onto my computer and find "AAARGH!" there is a datestamp on the images. (My wife has used the camera to take the more important images of our new baby son, and I didn't know she'd switched the date stamp feature back on!) So, without spending another day out taking photos - what can I do?! Fortunately I have several options available:

1) Use the images with the datestamp on them.
In my mind this is a huge "No-No!", date stamps on website pictures is very unprofessional and makes your pictures look either a) too old, or b)too new. If they are too old, then they are out of date.... If they are too new, they don't have the reliability that time gives them.

2) Crop the images.
This is very doable - and quite easy. Just cut out the area of the image without the date stamp and save that. There are downsides to this approach though - first you can end up with many images of all different sizes! Second, you may end up needing to cut out important parts of the image.

3) Use the 'Clone Stamp Tool'.
Well, this is the approach, I've used, and I'm pretty pleased. In Adobe Photoshop, just choose the clone stamp tool from the tool box. Hold Alt while you select a similar part of the image, and then click over the date stamp to replace it with the clone image. While it isn't perfect, it does a very good job. Then when you resize the image down (to make it a reasonable size for the web) the difference is impossible to see!

Enjoy!