“Remove Watermark in Photoshop” is a quick, simple and easy to use software that can help you remove watermark in Photoshop images. This software will automatically detect the position of the watermark and remove it within a couple of minutes. It is very user-friendly and requires no technical knowledge.
If you want to remove watermark from your pictures, then you need to use Photoshop. You can also read this article: Remove Watermark in Adobe Photoshop . Hope this helps and good luck.
How to Remove a Watermark in Photoshop
Photoshop is pretty smart when it comes to eliminating watermarks from photos. With your photo open, select Magic Wand Tool, which cleverly selects entire areas like the letters and logos of a watermark. You can also use the Pen Tool or Lasso Tool to make your selection.
Draw your cursor over each letter or image—remember to hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Cmd (Mac) as you click to select multiple elements of the watermark.
It won’t be the perfect selection. To fix this, go to Select > Modify > Expand. In the dialog box, choose how many pixels the selection needs to be expanded by.
Since the Magic Wand Tool in our example is close to the edge of the watermark, we’re only shifting the selection up by 2px, but yours may differ. Click OK to confirm.
Click Edit > Fill. This opens a new box, and in the Contents dropdown, choose Content-Aware. Make sure to uncheck the Color Adaptation box.
After hitting OK, your watermark should almost entirely disappear.
If some remnants remain, pick the Clone Stamp Tool. Be sure to change the size of the tool, so that you “clone” enough of the area, but not too much.
Hold down Alt or Option to select an area near any part of the remaining watermark. Doing so samples that area. Now, when you click (for a natural look, don’t swipe or drag) over the watermark, the tool “stamps” this area to mask the watermark outline.
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 Remove a Watermark in Paint.net
Your method for removing watermarks using Paint.net is fairly limited. Unlike Photoshop, there are no quick and dirty Content-Aware tools; unlike GIMP, you can’t download a plugin to get rid of them.
Instead, you’re limited to the Clone Stamp Tool, so choose this from the toolbar and set the size.
Choose an area of the image close to the watermark, hold Ctrl/Cmd, and click to create a sample. Now, click on the watermark. It should disappear, and get replaced with a sample of the background.
Remember to keep sampling and cloning as you go, to ensure you catch any changes in the image’s texture or lighting. As usual, it’s also best to click to remove for a more natural look (and greater control over watermark removal).
With some photos, it might also help to use the Blur Tool to iron out any visual kinks.
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.
How to remove watermarks from images using Content-Aware Move Tool in Photoshop?
Run Photoshop on your computer, add the source image file with watermark on it to Photoshop.
Step 1. Duplicate layer for backup
Right click to duplicate the layer at the Layers panel at the lower right section. You can also create a copy of the source image for backup in your hard drive folder for backup, so you don’t need to duplicate the layer. We are doing this is to make sure you have a backup to restore when you made unrecoverable changes to the source photo. Any changes are to be made to the copy. And when you have removed watermarks from the image copy, save it as a new image.
Step 2. Select watermark
Now go to select the Content-Aware Move Tool in Photoshop as shown in below screenshot.
In the property panel of the Content-Aware Move Tool, choose a remix mode to Move, choose ‘Very Strict‘ to define how strictly the regions preserved. This setting can help get more smooth image quality when the watermarks are being deleted. Click and hold to select the area around the watermark on your image you need to remove.
Step 3. Remove watermark from image
Press the Delete button on your keyboard to remove it. Alternatively when you selected the watermark in the image, you can also go to Edit menu > Fill, then you will see the Fill Pallet box pops up on your PC screen. Here you need to choose Content-Aware in the content to use area, set Mode to Normal, Opacity to 100% in the Blending area, click OK, then the watermark selected will be filled with similar content or color to its background.
Conclusion
There are two ways to remove the watermark in Photoshop. The easiest way I know is to create a layer over the image layer and move it under the watermark layer. Then use the magic wand tool to click on the background of the image. A border will appear around the image area. Delete this under the watermark layer.