How to Remove Watermark on Photoshop

Well, there are plenty of ways to remove watermark in Photoshop. However, most of them are restricted to experts only, who are not familiar with the ins and outs of this program. So how can a normal person remove a watermark from an image to make it totally free from the mark? Luckily for all of us, there is a specialized service called “Watermark Removal”. This service is affordable and it does all the hard work for you.

In this post, I will show different methods in which you can tackle any form of watermark on photoshop. Stay glued and apply which ever is relevant.

Step-by-step tutorial to remove watermark in Photoshop

Please follow the steps below to remove watermark in photoshop

Step 1) Open the image in Photoshop from which you want to remove the watermark.

Step 2) Select Magic Wand Tool (or press W) and zoom to the area of the image with watermark by pressing CTRL & + symbol.

Step 3) Now using the Magic Wand Tool, select the watermarked area which you want to remove.

Now you have to make some small changes to the selected area, you need to expend the selection to 5px to add some background pixel to make it wider-

Step 4) To expand the selected watermark area, Go to Select >> Modify >> Expand

Step 5) In the newly opened dialog box, set the Expand Selection to 5 Pixels and press OK.

The expanded section will look like this

Now, we will use Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill feature of Photoshop to remove the unwanted object from the image

Step 6) Go to Edit >> Content-Aware Fill

And now the Content-Aware Fill Window will automatically remove the watermark and show you the result

You will see that the Watermark has been removed successfully.

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Remove Watermark using Clone Stamp Tool

Another way to remove the watermark from a picture in Photoshop is by using the Clone Stamp Tool. Here are the steps –

Locate the Clone Stamp tool on the left-hand side tool bar of your Photoshop window. The shortcut is S, for both Windows and Mac systems
After that, right-click on the image. Set the brush size and hardness for editing the image
Now you have to take sample pixels near the watermark which will be used to remove it. Then, place the cursor near the watermark area and hold the Alt key
While holding the Alt key, click on the area to extract sample pixels. Once you’re done, release the Alt key
Next, left-click on the image and begin painting over your watermark
There may be some spots of the watermark still left. To remove this, select the Healing brush from the left-hand side toolbar
Right-click on the image and select brush settings for size and hardness. Then, you can take pixel samples like you did earlier and paint with small clicks on the image
Keep painting until the watermark is gone completely!

Using the Magic Wand tool and the Content-Aware fill feature is simple. For the Clone Stamp tool and Healing brush tool, it takes some time to perfect their use. But in the end, it is worth the effort as your watermark will be removed without any traces.

Video to Remove Watermark in Adobe Photoshop

Remove Watermarks with Content Aware Fill

Another method is to take advantage of the Content Aware Fill feature. Here’s how to do it:

Step 1

Open the image in Photoshop. Next make a selection around the text or logo watermark. You can do this using several tools, either the Pen tool, the Quick Selection tool or the Magic Wand one. Regardless of which tool you opt for, the selection around the watermark should look like this:

Step 2

In this step we are going to make minor adjustments to the selected area, more precisely expanding it in order to incorporate some background pixels. Go to Select > Modify > Expand. In the newly opened dialog box, expand the selection by the number of pixels you want and hit the OK button.

Step 3

Now let’s take advantage of the Content Aware Fill feature and its capabilities to remove objects from an image.

Go to Edit > Fill. In the Fill dialog box that just popped up, select Content Aware in the Contents section, leave Color Adaptation unchecked, set the Mode to Normal and the Opacity to 100% and click on the OK button.

This is how your picture should look like after applying the Content-Aware option:

Step 4

Deselect the selection by pressing Ctrl+D on your keyboard. Now you’ll probably notice that the area where the watermark used to be is filled with the background color. But the outline of the watermark is still visible and we need to remove it too.

Step 5

In order to remove the text outline we are going to resort to the Clone Stamp Tool, so select it from the left side toolbar (or just press S). Next hold down the “Alt” key (notice that the cursor turns into a target) and begin taking samples around the watermark. Now you can retouch the picture by clicking and dragging the cursor over the watermark’s outline area. Stop when there are no more traces of the original watermark left.

Use the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush Tools

Another way to remove watermark from photos is to resort to other post-processing tools, like the Clone Stamp and the Healing Brush. Here are the steps you need to follow: