erase to reveal?

[DaveD]

Is there any way to make it so that I can erase the area to the right of the arrow while keeping what is behind that area untouched?
Such as the gray area never existed and all that is there is the complete face/photo and the orange-color strip

 

[IamSam]

Dave, are these on separate layers? (I have to ask!)

 

[DaveD]

Just one photo
no extra layers or added sections

 

[sprucemagoo1]

Then no! You will have to replace it with whatever your imagination can muster.

 

[IamSam]

Put a hat on her!

 

[ibclare]

May I ask why you want to do this? Is it a personal photo, a friend? Or are you just asking about this issue in general? Because my observation is that this is a very compressed and nasty jpeg and not worth the effort. Unless, of course, like Sam did, you just add something over it, lol. Wicked sense of humor, Sam.

 

[DaveD]

That picture was actually a quick screen capture from a news broadcast.
I found a way to get my result was to get another photo of the same reporter and take just the face area.

Putting the cropped face on a blank background and the photo from above on top of the cropped face allows me to erase the area leaving the head from the bottom picture visible in the same spot as the erased area.

 

[sprucemagoo1]

Why not just screen shot the reporter without the graphic on screen?