Watermark Remover

Use this on photos you have the right to edit: dust, scratches, date stamps, or a mark you added yourself. Do not use it to strip someone else's copyright watermark, or to present their photo as yours.

Drop a photo here or click to choose

Paint only the mark. Thin text and small spots fill better than a large logo.

Cover a small mark with the brush, then fill that area from the pixels around it. The repair is done in this tab. Nothing is uploaded.

How to use

  1. Open the photo. Large files are scaled so the long side is at most 1,600 pixels, which is the size you will download.
  2. Set the brush just wide enough to cover the mark. Paint over the mark and a pixel or two of the surrounding photo so the edge can blend.
  3. Click Fill painted area. Undo goes back one stroke. Clear paint drops the mask without changing the photo.
  4. If a spot still looks wrong, paint that spot again and fill a second time. Download PNG when you are done.

What to expect

Thin type, a date stamp, dust, and a scratch on a plain wall come out usable. A large opaque logo, especially one sitting on a face or on fine detail, will look soft or smeared. This is a nearby-pixel fill, not a generative repaint, so it cannot invent the detail that was hidden under the mark.

Do not use the result to remove a stock-photo or photographer watermark from an image you do not have rights to, and do not present the repaired file as someone else's original work. A visible notice is on this page because the tool can be misused. The fill itself does not check who owns the file.

Questions

Why isn't this one click?

A one-click removal has to guess which pixels are the mark. That guess eats text you wanted to keep, and it still fails on a big logo. Painting the mark is slower and much more accurate.

The filled area looks blurry.

The brush was larger than the mark, or the mark covered detail. Undo, use a smaller brush, and paint only the ink.

Is the image uploaded?

No.