Photo Signals

Remove a watermark from a photo without uploading it

The same tool as the home page, with the steps written out and the honest limits stated first.

Open an image and paint over the mark

  • Nothing is uploaded
  • No account
  • Free, no limit
Three steps

Paint, fill, look

  1. Open the image

    It is read into this tab. Nothing is sent anywhere.

  2. Paint over the mark

    Cover it and a little of its edge, so the fill can see where the mark stops.

  3. Fill, then compare

    Check it against the original before you download. If the patch shows, start again with a smaller area.

The "suggest the mark" button proposes — you decide

There is a model that can suggest where a mark is, but it never removes anything on its own. Automatic detection is a guess, and a wrong guess either misses the mark or paints out part of your picture — so the suggestion arrives as a starting point on the brush, and nothing is filled until you have edited it and pressed Fill. You stay the one who decides where the mark is; the model just saves you the first strokes.

  • Works well

    • A date burned into a sky
    • A logo on a wall, a door, a document
    • A bar or box over a flat background
    • Tiling over a smooth surface

  • Works badly

    • Anything over a face or an eye
    • Text over fine texture — hair, foliage, fabric
    • A mark covering a quarter of the frame or more
    • Anywhere the surroundings are not consistent

If the picture is not yours. Removing an ownership or licensing mark from someone else's work does not make the work yours, and in many places removing that mark is separately unlawful. See the terms.