Erased locally — nothing is uploaded

Remove Objects from Photos

Brush over the thing you want gone — a stranger, a sign, a blemish — and a content-aware fill blends it away. Free, private and instant.

Drop a photo

or click to browse — JPG, PNG or WEBP

Works best on even backgrounds — sky, grass, walls, sand

Object removed — Drag the handle — the stranger is brushed out, on-device

Original — Drag the handle — the stranger is brushed out, on-device

Erase an object in three steps

1.Drop a photo

Any JPG, PNG or WEBP — it's read straight in your browser, never uploaded.

2.Brush the object

Paint over the thing you want gone and press Erase — the fill blends the area away.

3.Download

Export full resolution as PNG or JPG — free and watermark-free.

How content-aware fill decides what goes in the hole

The fill is borrowed, not imagined

Erasing an object leaves a hole, and the fill is assembled from the pixels around it — colour, texture and gradient sampled from the boundary and propagated inward, coarse structure first and fine detail after.

This is why the surroundings decide the result far more than the object does. A person standing against open sky disappears completely, because the algorithm has an enormous amount of consistent sky to borrow from. The same person in front of a bookshelf leaves a smear, because there is no way to infer which book was behind them.

Brush generously, but not too generously

Under-brushing is the most common mistake. Leaving a rim of the object's edge pixels means those colours get treated as legitimate surroundings and propagated into the fill, producing a ghost in roughly the object's shape.

Cover the object plus a small margin, including its shadow and any reflection — a removed object whose shadow remains reads as obviously wrong. But an unnecessarily huge selection forces the algorithm to invent more area than it has evidence for, so the fill turns mushy. Slightly larger than the object is the target.

Several small passes beat one large one

A big object over varied background is better removed in stages. Erase a portion, let the fill settle, then erase the next — each pass has more plausible surroundings to work from than one enormous selection would.

It also lets you stop when it looks right rather than committing to a single result, and to work along a boundary — the edge of a wall, a horizon — instead of across it, which is where fills most visibly break down.

Where this approach runs out

Straight lines that pass behind the object rarely reconnect convincingly: tiles, window frames, floorboards and railings all show a kink. Repeating patterns can drift out of phase. And anything that would require knowing what was genuinely hidden — a face behind a hand, text behind a sign — cannot be recovered by any amount of borrowing.

When the fill fails, cropping the object out of the frame is often the better edit, and an honest one.

Frequently asked questions

How do I remove an object from a photo?

Drop in a photo, brush over the object you want gone, and click Erase. The tool fills the brushed area from the surrounding pixels — all in your browser, in seconds.

Does it use AI? How good is the result?

It uses a fast content-aware fill that blends the surrounding colours and texture into the erased area. It shines on skies, walls, grass, sand and other even backgrounds; very detailed or patterned backgrounds may need a second, smaller pass.

Is my photo uploaded anywhere?

No. The whole fill runs on your device — the photo never leaves your browser, which is exactly what you want when editing personal pictures.

Can I remove people from photos?

Yes — brush over the person and erase. Results are best when the person stands against a relatively even background such as sky, sea, grass or a wall.

Is it free, and is there a watermark?

Completely free and unlimited, with no watermark and no sign-up — like every ClearBG tool.

Export here and keep editing there — your image carries over, with no re-upload.