Patent 7627168 was granted and assigned to Adobe Inc. on December, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for erasing in a digital image. A method includes identifying a plurality of tip regions on the image, establishing an erasure color, and completely erasing pixels in the tip region that have a color matching the erasure color. Pixels having partially matching colors are partially erased and color decontaminated.