Erase text and watermarks from images with your own API key: paint over the words and let AI rebuild what is behind them.
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JPG, PNG, or WebP up to 15 MB.
Paint directly over the text or watermark you want gone. Everything you paint is sent to the AI as the region to erase and rebuild from the surrounding pixels.
Works with mouse, pen, and touch. Painting marks are shown in green; they are sent as a white-on-black mask alongside your image.
Removal is processed by the Clipdrop cleanup API with your key and uses your Clipdrop credits.
Screenshots carry timestamps, product photos carry price tags, stock photos carry watermarks, and retouching them away by hand means cloning backgrounds pixel by pixel. This tool takes the simpler path used by professional cleanup pipelines: you paint over the offending region, the painted area becomes a mask, and the Clipdrop cleanup model fills that region with content synthesized from the surrounding texture, leaving every unpainted pixel of your original untouched.
This is a bring-your-own-key (BYOK) tool. Click "Use Your API Key" above and paste a Clipdrop API key from clipdrop.co; it is stored in your browser's session storage for the current tab and never written to our servers. Your image and its mask are forwarded through our lightweight proxy to Clipdrop with your key attached, and each removal draws on your own Clipdrop credit balance, and we add no markup.
The mask you paint is rendered internally as white marks on a black canvas at the image's full resolution, exactly what the cleanup API expects, so a few broad strokes are enough. Results are best when the text sits on comparatively simple backgrounds: sky, walls, fabric, gradients. For cutting out whole subjects instead of erasing marks, use the Background Remover.
Paint over it. The editor overlays your image with a brush; every stroke marks a region to erase. Cover the letters or watermark fully, including a margin of a few pixels, so the model can rebuild clean edges. The green tint you see is only a preview. The sent mask is white marks on a black canvas at full image resolution.
Yes to both. Removal runs on the Clipdrop cleanup API, so you need a Clipdrop API key added via "Use Your API Key", and each removal spends credits from your own Clipdrop account at their published rate. We add no markup and never store your key on our servers.
No. Only the regions you paint are touched; every unpainted pixel is carried over from your original. This is what makes mask-based cleanup safer than re-generating the whole image: composition, colors, and detail outside the painted areas stay bit-for-bit identical.
Text on comparatively simple backgrounds (walls, sky, water, fabric, gradients, flat product shots) comes out cleanest. Dense text printed over busy texture can leave faint traces, and semi-transparent watermarks spanning the whole photo may need a second pass with a smaller brush.
JPG, PNG, and WebP up to 15 MB. Both the image and the painted mask travel to Clipdrop together, so very large photos are slow to send; if you hit trouble, shrink the file first with the Image Compressor and remove the text at the smaller size.