Remove watermark from photo

Old family photos often carry an orange camera date in the corner, holiday shots have a stray bag or sign in them, and scans pick up dust and stains. This tool lets you paint over the unwanted part, then fills it from the surrounding picture with MI-GAN, an inpainting model. Use it on photos you own or have permission to edit; it isn't for stripping credits or watermarks from other people's images.

• Erasing the date a camera printed into your own photos.
• Removing a text overlay or logo you added to your own picture.
• Taking a small object, stain, power line or passer-by out of a holiday photo.
• Cleaning dust and scratches from scanned prints.

Paint over what should go with the brush (6–160 px), a little past its edges, including any glow or shadow; the eraser and undo fix mistakes. Pinch or use Ctrl/⌘ + scroll to zoom, hold Space to pan, and hold the compare button to see the original. The preview is made at screen size; the download is filled at full resolution, up to 40 megapixels. Separate marks are filled one at a time, each from its own surroundings. The model is about 28 MB and downloads on first use. If it can't load, a simpler quick fill is used, which handles thin marks such as date stamps but not large areas.

• Only painted pixels change; everything else keeps its original values.
• PNG and WebP stay in their format; other photos are saved as high-quality JPG.

Fills look most convincing on plain or repeating backgrounds: sky, walls, sand, grass and water. On fine texture such as foliage, fabric, brickwork or text, and for objects that cover a large share of the photo, the fill can look soft or smeared, because the model invents background rather than knowing what was there. Two smaller passes often beat one large one.

• Zoom to 100% and check the edges of each filled area.
• Look for a faint outline where a glow or shadow wasn't painted.
• Keep the original file; the edit can't be reversed after download.