How to Remove a Watermark, Logo or Date Stamp from a Photo (Free)

You find a lovely old holiday photo, but an orange date stamp sits in the corner. A product picture you made last year still carries an outdated logo. A family photo has a stranger's sticker or a power line right through the sky. You no longer have the original file, and you do not want to learn a professional photo editor just for this.

This guide shows how to remove these marks cleanly in a few seconds, and how to get the best result on difficult photos.

Watermark RemoverPaint over a watermark, logo, text or date stamp and erase it cleanly.

How watermark removal works

The pixels under a watermark are gone, so no tool can "see through" it. What a good remover does is rebuild the area from what surrounds it. Our tool looks for patches of the photo that match the edges of the area you paint, then copies and blends them in, starting on a small blurry version of the image and refining it up to full size. That is why sky continues as sky and grass continues as grass, instead of turning into a grey smudge.

Step by step

1. Open the Watermark Remover and drop in your photo, or paste it with Ctrl+V.
2. Choose Brush for text and odd shapes, or Rectangle for a logo in a box.
3. Paint over the mark, going just a little beyond its edges, including any shadow or glow.
4. Click Remove watermark and wait a few seconds.
5. Check the result zoomed in. Use Undo if needed, paint any leftovers and run it again.
6. Download the clean image. It keeps the original size and format.

Everything runs in your browser. The photo is never uploaded.

Tips for a clean result

• Work in small pieces. A big logo removed in two or three passes looks better than one huge selection, because each pass has more real background to copy from.
• Cover the whole mark. Thin outlines and soft shadows left at the edge show up clearly after the fill.
• Leave plenty of photo around it. If you select almost the whole image, there is nothing left to rebuild from.
• Expect limits on detail. A watermark across a face or important text cannot be restored perfectly. Simple backgrounds such as sky, walls, sand, water and skin give the best results.

Crop instead when you can

If the mark sits at the very edge, cropping it away is faster and loses nothing of the main subject.

Image CropperCrop images freely or to 1:1, 16:9, 4:3 and other aspect ratios.

Remove watermarks responsibly

Only remove watermarks from photos you own or have permission to edit. A watermark usually shows who holds the copyright, and removing it to reuse someone else's work can break the law and the photographer's trust. If you sell photos yourself, protecting them works the other way round:

Add Watermark to ImageProtect photos with a text or logo watermark, single or tiled.

Frequently asked questions

Is the watermark remover free? Yes. There is no sign-up, no limit and no watermark added to your result.

Does it reduce the quality of my photo? No. Only the painted area changes; every other pixel stays exactly as it was.

Can it remove text and date stamps? Yes. Paint over the text with the brush and it is filled with the background around it.

Can I hide something instead of removing it? For number plates, faces or card numbers, a blur or black box is safer than a fill. Use the photo censor tool for that.

Is my photo uploaded? No. All processing happens on your device.

A few seconds with the brush is often all an old photo needs to look the way you remember it.