HELP ME PLEASE!!! I'm soo serious!!

Okay, i've got a school project to do right, and i found a really cool background on a magazine, and i was hoping to use it as a background. HOWEVER. There's writing on the paper.

Now my question is: How do i erase the writing WITHOUT erasing the background??

Any help is GREATLY APPRECIATED.

er...an example image would help alot.
I'm guessing you just need to use the stampTool a bit.

what's stampTool? what's that? i'm a total beginner

uhh, i don't have a scanner right now, so ill just give u an example. get a magazine or something, and look for an ad.

for example, it says "levis" over a complicated background, a background that almost looks like grains of wood. I want to take the "levis" out, but i want to keep the "grains of wood" intact. because if i take it out, the grains of wood will look broken up. Y'know?

Please reply again!

Smudge off the writing, fix the background using the healing brush

This can be done in Photoshop? What do u use to smudge and where's the healing brush?

Again - Thanks a WHOLE lot, you don't know what this means to me.

Oh god, not this again. Before actually asking where, which, what is... Read the manual PLEASE.

http://www.teamphotoshop.com/photoshop/tutorials/ps_tut.php
Go through those.

Can't you just please help me? That guide talks about v. 6. i've got 7...

When i click on the brushes icon, the rest are unclickable. Do i have to highlight first? Please, i'm so desperate, can't you just help me???

I am helping you. Anyways, IF you do have the helpfile to photoshop, these paths should open it.

C:/Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop7.0/Help/1_10_7_3.html
C:/Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop7.0/Help/1_10_8_1.html

GREAT!! but now i can't find the ****ing Smudge icon...!!!

How is it you have a school project in which you are required to use Photoshop...yet you haven't been taught the first thing about how to use the tools?

What kind of bizarro-universe school district do you attend? And how much do the instructors pay for the priveledge of teaching there?

Sit upright, crawl, walk, run, fly...that's how it's supposed to work.