How to Remove Watermark From Photo in Photoshop – A watermark is a logo, text or pattern carved on image for copyright purposes. It helps you protect your work from theft and market it at the same time. But sometimes watermarks can distract the viewer from the image, and you might want to remove it.
Using Adobe Photoshop we both add as well remove the watermark from any Image. In this post, we will learn how to remove watermark in Photoshop.
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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.
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.
Method 2
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.
Method 3
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.
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.
Method 4
How to Remove Watermark in Photoshop
The Photoshop watermark vanishing technique is powerful. You can make the watermark disappear from your image completely. The available Photoshop watermark removing tools include content aware fill, healing brush and clone stamp tool. Just read and follow.
Remove Watermark with Photoshop Content Aware Fill – Watermark Surrounded with the Same Color
Step 1:Open Adobe Photoshop. Drag and drop your image with watermark into the main interface.Step 2:Select this image. Choose Duplicate Layer from its right-click menu.
Step 3:Draw around the watermark with the rectangular marquee tool, lasso tool, or magic wand tool on Photoshop.Step 4:Choose Fill … from the Edit drop-down list. In the Fill window, choose Content Aware in the Contents section. Leave Color Conversion unchecked. Choose Normal in Mode.
Step 5:Click OK to save changes. Save your no-watermark image to finish the Photoshop watermark removal process.
Remove Watermark in Photoshop with Healing Brush & Clone Stamp – Watermark Surrounded with Complex Background
Step 1:Open the watermark image with Photoshop. Choose the clone stamp tool in the left panel. Set the brush’s size and visibility based on the image.Step 2:Hover the cursor above the watermark on the image. Hold Alt (Options for Mac users) and click the target location where you want to remove watermark.Step 3:Don’t release Alt (Options for Mac users) until the sampling process ends. Then start painting on the watermark with the new left-click mouse.Step 4:Press J on the keyboard to get the healing brush tool. Hold Alt on the keyboard while taking a sample around the target area. Now you can drag the mouse left and right to heal the area.Step 5:Repeat Step 4 to erase the watermark completely. After that, export your image without watermark in Photoshop.
Conclusion
Thanks to digital photography, everyone with a camera is now a photo editor with Photoshop CS6 at their fingertips. Unfortunately, as easy as it is for amateur photographers to edit images, it’s also just as easy for those who don’t want their work stolen to protect their images with duplicate or duplicate-free watermarks.”