See what’s under emoji in edited photo

I am wondering how I can get the original photo out of a edited photo (edited by someone else) if someone put a smiley of other emoji on the photo, can this be removed?

Help me please is there a way/software for it?

Hello does anyone know a way to see whats underneath something added op the photo/screenshot? How to remove stickers from photo
 

Edited by hamluis, 01 November 2020 - 11:50 AM.
Merged two topics - Hamluis.

If you are talking about a single layer image, say a JPEG, then there is no way to remove the emoji or whatever to see what was originally there. You can remove an emoji or any other addition but you have to do it by overpainting, esssentially you are guessing at what was underneath it.

You can do this in almost any raster graphics package, ie one which sees an image as an array of pixcels, probably even in Paint which is built into Windows.

Chris Cosgrove

I am  not quite sure how to make this clearer, however . . .

If, and only if, the image you are dealing with is something likke a raw Photoshop image composed of layers then you can remove the layer with this emoji, watermark or whatever. This is one reason why files such as native Photoshop files are so big. You will very seldom run into images of this type on the iinternet unless you and someone else are working with this type of file.

The image types you normally find, and most photographs, are of the types .JPG, .PNG, .GIF and .TIF. These are single layer images and there is nothing above or below this one layer. You can remove an emoji by making the space transparent or by over painting but you cannot reveal what was under it before it was added as there is nothing else there when you get the image.

Chris Cosgrove