Watermark Remover
Paint over watermarks, logos, or text on any image. The tool fills the selected area using surrounding pixel colors. Free, private, runs entirely in your browser.
Controls
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How to remove a watermark from an image
Results depend far more on the background behind the watermark than on the watermark itself. These steps get the cleanest result the tool can give.
- 01
Load the photo, and crop first if you can
Drop a JPG, PNG or WebP onto the tool. Images wider than 1,000 px are scaled down to 1,000 px wide for editing, so a 4032 × 3024 phone photo becomes 1000 × 750. If the watermark sits near an edge, cropping it out with the Image Cropper keeps more of your original resolution than painting over it.
- 02
Pick Brush for curves, Rectangle for badges
Brush mode suits handwritten signatures, thin text and logos with irregular outlines. Rectangle mode suits solid date stamps, corner badges and caption bars, where one drag covers the whole mark.
- 03
Size the brush just wider than the strokes
The brush runs from 6 to 90 px across. Pick a size slightly wider than the lines of the watermark. A brush much bigger than the mark pulls in colours from further away and leaves a more obvious patch.
- 04
Work in short strokes and undo freely
Paint a few short strokes rather than one long one, because each dab takes its colour from whatever surrounds it at that moment. Ctrl+Z undoes up to 20 steps, so you can try a stroke, judge it, and step back.
- 05
Download the PNG and check it at full size
Download saves a lossless PNG. Open it at 100% zoom before you use it. Patches that are invisible in the small preview can show up on a large screen.
How the two modes fill the area
A watermark replaces the pixels underneath it. Those original pixels aren't stored anywhere in the file, so any remover has to guess what should be there. This tool guesses from the colours immediately around the mark.
Brush mode stamps a filled circle as you drag. For each circle it averages the pixels in a 4 px ring just outside the brush and fills the circle with that one colour. Stamps are placed every quarter of the brush width, so a 24 px brush stamps every 6 px, and a 300 px stroke lays down about 51 overlapping circles. Because later stamps sample earlier ones, a long stroke gradually drifts in colour. Short strokes avoid that.
Rectangle modereads the colour just outside each side of your box: left and right edges row by row, top and bottom edges at the middle of the box. It blends them smoothly across the inside and adds a touch of random noise so the patch doesn't look perfectly flat. On a 200 × 60 px date stamp, that fills 12,000 pixels in one go, and gradients come out more naturally than with the brush.
| Background behind the watermark | Brush | Rectangle |
|---|---|---|
| Flat colour (sky, studio backdrop, wall) | Very good | Very good |
| Smooth gradient (sunset, vignette) | Fair, may band | Good |
| Fine texture (grass, fabric, gravel) | Visible blotches | Visible smooth patch |
| Over a face, text or sharp edge | Poor | Poor |
The last row is the honest limit. If a watermark crosses someone's face, a line of text or a hard edge, no surrounding-colour method can rebuild what was underneath. For those, an AI inpainting model or a clone and healing brush in a desktop editor such as GIMP or Photoshop will do better, or the best fix is to find an unwatermarked original.
What people use it for
Date stamps on old scanned prints
Orange date imprints from film cameras usually sit in a corner over sky or floor. A single Rectangle drag over the digits often clears them in one step.
App badges on your own phone photos
Some camera and editing apps stamp their name on every export. On a clean background, three or four Brush strokes are usually enough.
Labels and arrows in old screenshots
Screenshots with flat interface colours are ideal: the surrounding pixels are one colour, so the fill matches almost exactly.
Placeholder text on product mock-ups
Template images often ship with "Your Logo Here" text. Clearing it on a plain backdrop takes seconds and saves reopening the design file.
Your own watermark on an old upload
If you watermarked a picture years ago and lost the original file, this gets you a usable clean copy for small sizes such as a profile or thumbnail.
Limits worth knowing before you start
- Output is capped at 1,000 px wide. That's plenty for web posts and thumbnails, but not for printing a large photo.
- No texture is generated. Fills are smooth colour, so grass, hair, fabric and noise-heavy night shots show a soft patch.
- Metadata isn't kept. The PNG is drawn fresh from the canvas, so EXIF details such as capture date and GPS location are not carried over.
- Undo history is 20 steps. Each step stores a full copy of the pixels (about 3 MB for a 1000 × 750 image), so the history is capped to keep memory use reasonable.
- It handles one image at a time. There's no batch mode for a folder of photos with the same watermark.
Frequently asked questions
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