Watermarks can be a complete nuisance when working with images. Although you might not like it, they do serve a purpose. They protect your copyright and trademark of your work while making it easier to carry out or manage digital rights. So what happens when you want to use a photo without a text or a logo on it? You’ll most likely have to remove the watermark.
So, here’s how to go about removing watermarks on glimp.
Part 1: How to Remove Watermark with Gimp
Gimp is a powerful and open-source image editing program that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Many people use it as a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop. For many of us, effacing the watermark from a photo is a frequent task. Gimp is a good tool to do it. Here are the steps to Remove Watermark with Gimp:Step 1:Download and install Gimp on your computer.Step 2:Click on the File tab in the top left corner of the interface and select Open. Then just select the picture and open it.
Step 3:Select the Clone Tool in the top right corner of the interface.
Step 4:Find a region which is like the watermark’s background in the picture and put the cursor on it. Keep the Ctrl key pressed and single-click your mouse. (You can adjust the size of the region on the left side)Step 5:Press down the left key of your mouse and paint over the watermark. The image from the copied region will cover the area you painted.
Part 2: Remove Watermark with an Alternative to Gimp
Is there any easier way to remove watermarks in pictures? Yes, Aiseesoft Free Watermark Remover Online is the best alternative to Gimp if you want to remove the watermark from an image in an easier way. It works completely online so you need to do no preparatory work before you see the tool working correctly on your screen. Here are several key features of Aiseesoft Free Watermark Remover Online.
- Remove watermarks from pictures of any size without limitation.
- Based on web and launch without downloading or installing.
- Intuitive but straightforward interface and buttons are friendly to beginners.
- Select the watermark area in multiple ways: polygonal, lasso, and brush.
Steps to remove watermarks from photos using Gimp’s alternativeStep 1:Open your browser and go to https://www.aiseesoft.com/watermark-remover-online/. When you see the webpage is fully loaded, click the Upload Photo button in the center of the webpage.
Step 2:Select a picture from which you want to remove the watermark and then click Open.Step 3:Select a tool from Polygonal, Lasso, and Brush. Then highlight the watermark with the tool you choose.
Step 4:Click the Remove button at the top of the interface and wait for the tool to remove the watermark on the server. When it’s done, click the Save button to retrieve the picture.
ALTERNATIVE
How to Get Rid of Watermarks in GIMP
The easiest but slowest way to get rid of watermarks using GIMP is with the Clone Tool. To get started, open GIMP and select the Clone Tool.
This tool works similarly to Photoshop’s Clone Stamp Tool—you need to sample a part of the image. This time, hold down Ctrl/Cmd, then click on the part of the watermark you want to remove. It’s time-consuming but allows you to be incredibly precise.
However, you can do this all much faster when downloading and installing the GIMP Resynthesizer plugin. This awesome GIMP plugin offers a wealth of image editing options, most notably a version of Photoshop’s Content-Aware tool.
To install it, extract the files in the ZIP file, and copy all of them into GIMP’s plugin folder. From there, select the Free Select Tool or the Rectangle Select Tool.
Draw around the watermark to be removed.
Once it’s highlighted, go to Filters > Enhance > Heal selection. Set the Context sampling width.
As usual, you may need to play around with this figure to make sure you’re only losing the watermark, not too much of the image beyond that. Click OK and let the Resynthesize plugin work its magic.
Once complete (it can take a minute), use the Clone Tool to sample and cover any remaining blots.
How to Get Rid of Watermarks in GIMP
The easiest but slowest way to get rid of watermarks using GIMP is with the Clone Tool. To get started, open GIMP and select the Clone Tool.
This tool works similarly to Photoshop’s Clone Stamp Tool—you need to sample a part of the image. This time, hold down Ctrl/Cmd, then click on the part of the watermark you want to remove. It’s time-consuming but allows you to be incredibly precise.
However, you can do this all much faster when downloading and installing the GIMP Resynthesizer plugin. This awesome GIMP plugin offers a wealth of image editing options, most notably a version of Photoshop’s Content-Aware tool.
To install it, extract the files in the ZIP file, and copy all of them into GIMP’s plugin folder. From there, select the Free Select Tool or the Rectangle Select Tool.
Draw around the watermark to be removed.
Once it’s highlighted, go to Filters > Enhance > Heal selection. Set the Context sampling width.
As usual, you may need to play around with this figure to make sure you’re only losing the watermark, not too much of the image beyond that. Click OK and let the Resynthesize plugin work its magic.
Once complete (it can take a minute), use the Clone Tool to sample and cover any remaining blots.
ALTERNATIVE
The quick and simple method
You can very easily heal an image stamped with watermark in GIMP. Bear in mind though that in case of the semi-transparent watermarks it is not a precise restoration of the image mathematically to its former self, indeed it is sooner “healing” of the image, as parts of it are filled with newly generated content to make it blend with the rest of the picture. Still this method is good enough for most of the everyday situations and more often than not produces really good results.
You need the Resynthesizer Gimp plug-in to do this (available also for Windows).
Install the plug-in by:
sudo apt-get install gimp-resynthesizer
Then:
- open the picture with GIMP
- select the area you want to heal (the more precise the better)
- select Filters > Map > Resynthesizer
- click Ok
2. The more complicated methodThis way is manual labor intensive and may not always work.In case of a semi-transparent uniformly white watermark on either color or grayscale image:
- Create exact replica of the watermark as semi-transparent white on solid back
- Invert colors
- Place this image as a layer above the image you want to remove the watermark from
- In the “Layers” window set the mode of the top layer to “Burn”
You can read more about it here . Still, I have not got it to work in the real life, although it works perfectly as described with the sample images provided.
NOT YET, TRY THIS…
Steps to Remove Watermark from Photo Free in GIMP
- Download GIMP from its website, it is safe to use, install and open the application then.
- Go to File>Open, import your photo to watermark removal.
- Then choose Clone tool.
- Press Ctrl and select an area to clone to the watermark area.
- Once ready, go to File>Save. The photo watermark is removed in GIMP.
Conclusion
Watermarks have been around since the age of olden Egypt, where they were used to show ownership. Nowadays, watermarks are used for a number of reasons including protecting your images from being stolen and to add a personal touch.