Remove an object
Brush over what you want gone; the model fills that area in by reading its surroundings.
How to use it
Drop the photo in
Drag it into the area above or click to choose. The tool switches to a full-screen workbench as soon as the file arrives.
Paint what should go
Run the brush over the object. The mark stays see-through so you can still see the photo; the mask is only sent when you press “Apply”.
Apply, and repeat if needed
If you do not like the result, undo and try a different mask. Removing five things one at a time beats doing them in a single pass by a clear margin.
What this tool does
It guesses rather than copies
It deletes the area you painted and builds new pixels from what surrounds it. That is the difference from classic clone-stamp retouching: it is not copying texture from somewhere else, it is predicting how the scene continues.
Nothing outside the brush is touched
Every pixel you did not paint is preserved bit for bit. On continuous surfaces — walls, sky, sea, grass, fabric — the result is usually invisible.
Pixels that were never there
The file you end up with is a plausible guess, not a record of the scene. Do not use it for news photography, evidence, insurance or anything requiring identity. Altering and circulating someone else's photo without permission also causes trouble in most places.
For a good result
Cover the whole object
Leave half of it outside the mask and the model treats that half as “something that ought to continue” and redraws it.
Paint the shadow too
The most common mistake: the object goes, its shadow stays, and the scene looks strange. The “edge margin” setting exists for exactly this.
Work piece by piece
Rather than painting five things into one mask, remove them one at a time; each pass gives the model more solid information to work from.
Is the background easy or hard?
A person in front of a plain wall disappears easily; an object in front of a bookshelf, a crowd or lettering can leave a blurry patch behind.
If the photo needs more than one job
This page does one thing
Only removal lives here — brush, edge margin, apply. Nothing else was added, so the screen stays plain.
Finish the removing first
Upscaling reads a scratch you have not removed as real detail and sharpens it. Colorizing belongs last.
All three on one photo
Restore Old Photos opens the same engine with tabs: remove, upscale, colorize — all on the same photo, with no downloading and re-uploading.
Common questions
There is a blurry patch where I removed something
That usually means the area was too large or the background too complex. Undo, break it into smaller pieces and try again over a few passes.
The object is gone but its shadow is still there
The shadow is part of the photo too; you have to paint over it as well. Raising the “edge margin” setting is usually enough.
Can I use it to remove a watermark?
Technically it works. But a date stamp on your own photo and a watermark on someone else's copyrighted image are not the same thing — do not do the second.
I brushed over the wrong spot
“Undo last stroke” takes that stroke back, “Clear all” resets the mask. Nothing has been applied to the photo yet — the mask is only sent when you press “Apply”.