Clean up a photo before you use it

The example is a woman in a red jacket on a misty beach: she should go, the beach should stay. Each removal becomes its own version, so the original stays one click away.

Before

A woman in a red jacket on a misty beach.

After

The same beach without her, removed in the Editor with Precise.

What you get

• The photo without the person or object you don't want, its place filled to match.
• A way to check what the AI changed before you use it.

Pick the right removal

In the tool menu of the Editor's Remove mode:

• Object erases what you paint over, such as the woman (Remove an object).
• Text erases all the writing, a product's own print included (Remove text or a label).
• Background keeps the main subject on transparent (Remove the background).

Each removal starts from the version shown, so you can combine them.

Clean it up in the Editor

1. Open the photo in the Editor and choose Remove.

2. Paint over her, her shadow and footprints included, pick Precise with the bolt in the bar under the photo, and choose Remove object on the photo: 20 credits, or 5 at Fast for small objects on plain backgrounds.

   

3. Choose Show original to compare. Here Precise filled the sea and the sand where she stood, with no visible seam.

   
   

4. Copy the result, or export it.

Or ask the Agent

Attach the photo in the Agent (Ask the Agent) and send:

The Agent removed her too, for 20 credits, as a new image marked AI. Its fill differs from the Editor's: a lighter rectangle shows on the wet sand and the sea where she stood, where the Editor's fill shows none, and a pebble appeared at its foot. Open it full screen to check.

Check what the AI changed

• In Show original, look at filled areas and the edges of what stayed.
• A tile marked AI holds generated pixels: a fill is new content, not what was hidden. If it looks lighter or smoother than its surroundings, try again with the other way: the two fill differently, and on this photo Precise in the Editor matched the beach more closely.
• Remove text redraws the whole photo. Compare the product's colour, print and texture.
• To go back, use Undo, or choose an earlier tile: the next removal starts from it.

A failed removal charges nothing and keeps your painted marks.

Common mistakes

• Using Text to remove one label. Text takes all the writing. Paint over the label with Object.
• Letting Remove background choose the subject. To choose what stays, cut it out.
• Expecting Remove to keep the object. Remove erases what you paint; Cutout keeps it.

Open copyimage.ai and try it on a photo of your own.