How to Remove Something From a Picture [+ 5 Tools to Use]

Finding the perfect image for your content isn’t always easy. It’s extremely common to have almost perfect photos with a bit of unwanted text or objects in the background.

You don’t have to worry about that anymore. Now, you can remove unwanted items from photos thanks to AI technology.

In this article, we share five tools you can use to erase those unwanted items from your images. Plus, we give you an easy-to-follow guide for removing background or foreground objects from photos with Visme.

Table of Contents

• 5 Tools to Help Remove Objects & People from Pictures
• How to Remove Something From a Picture with Visme

5 Tools to Help Remove Objects & People from Pictures

In this section, we’ve rounded up the five best options for removing objects from images.

1. Visme

Visme is a cloud-based, online content-authoring tool that helps you remove objects from images easily. Thanks to the integrated photo editor and AI image editing features, you can replace things, remove backgrounds, or unblur and upscale your images.

Features

Erase and Replace Objects

This tool enables you to remove objects, text and people from photos. The best part about the AI image editing tools in Visme is that they’re all available in the Visme editor. This means you can access it no matter what project you’re working on.

Background Remover

Use this tool to remove the background of any photo. The background remover lets you create cut-outs of objects and items and place them on another background or color backdrop.

Image Upscaler and Image Sharpener

The image upscaler lets you enlarge an image up to four times without losing image quality.

With the image sharpener you can unblur any fuzzy and pixelated images.

Other Features Available in Visme

• Intuitive and easy-to-use drag-and-drop editor.
• Thousands of templates in varying categories.
• Customizable assets: icons, shapes, characters, illustrations and gestures.
• Video and animation timeline to create videos and animated graphics.
• 30+ different types of charts, graphs, maps and widgets.
• Custom animation that can be applied to any object.
• Interactive links, call-to-action buttons and hover effects.
• Searchable gallery of free stock photos, videos, icons and shapes.
• AI-powered generating tools, including an AI image generator and AI writer.
• Import your own images, videos and fonts.
• Embed videos and other online content into your designs.
• Team collaboration features to share projects and collaborate in different ways.
• Brand Design Tool and brand kit to save your brand colors, fonts and logos for repeated use.
• Insightful analytics to gather data about statistics about project engagement (views, unique visits, average time, average completion and more).
• Publish and share online with your audience with a link or embed code.
• Share project directly on social media
• Offline/animated download formats: GIF, MP4 video and HTML5.

Aside from making beautiful images in Visme, you can create

• Presentations
• Infographics
• Printables
• Chart, graphs and maps 
• Digital documents
• Social media graphics,
• Video and GIFs
• Whiteboards
• Ads, banners and many other visuals.

Pricing

The free plan has limited features. Paid plans start at $12.25/month per user, billed annually.

2. SnapEdit

SnapEdit is a web, iOS and Android app that helps remove objects, text and people from photos using AI technology. Users can easily upload an image to the app and clean it up.

Features

• Eliminates acne, wrinkles and blemishes from skin.
• Erases scratches and folds to fix and restore old photos.
• Removes watermarks and unwanted text from any image.
• Supports upload of JPG and PNG images and allows users to download in HD with JPG.

Pricing

• Free: $0
• Pro: $5/month billed annually

3. PhotoRoom

PhotoRoom is another web, iOS and Android app that helps edit photos quickly in several ways. With many options available in this app, users can create clean and professional images in no time.

Features

• Removes, blurs and creates instant backgrounds.
• Removes objects, people or text from any photo.
• Edits images in batches to remove backgrounds.
• Adds realistic shadows to cut out images.
• Makes round profile pictures from photos of people.
• Creates color splash effect and outlines shapes as stickers.
• Offers background collections plus other team and enterprise features.

Pricing

• Free
• Pro: $9.99 / user per month

4. Adobe Photoshop Express

Adobe Photoshop Express is an Adobe Cloud app that helps you edit photos quickly on a mobile device and desktop computer. It’s a simpler version of Adobe Photoshop and is free to download and use.

Features

• Removes text, watermarks, objects and photo bombers
• Removes backgrounds to create cutouts and collages
• Dehazes, retouches and helps with fuzziness in images
• Offers skin smoothing and makeup presets for skin
• Easy integration with Adobe Photoshop and cloud storage applications

Pricing

• Free: $0.00
• Premium: $9.99/month

5. TouchRetouch

TouchRetouch is an app from ADVA Soft that helps remove blemishes, lines and unwanted objects from images. The app is available on iOS, Android and Mac computers.

Features

• Object-aware retouching to erase objects that are close to other items efficiently.
• Erases unwanted lines like power cables from photos.
• Removes meshes and crossed fencing from the foreground.

Pricing

The app is free to download but offers in-app purchases.

How to Remove Something From a Picture with Visme

Using AI technology, Visme’s Erase & Replace feature helps you clean up pictures, remove objects, erase blemishes, get rid of text and take people out of your photos.

Here’s how to do it.

Step 1: Log in to Visme and navigate to the project with the photo

First, you must log in to your Visme account using Google or Facebook. From the dashboard, navigate to an existing project or create a new one. Upload the image you wish to edit or choose from the gallery of free stock images.

Step 2: Select the image, click edit, then Erase & Replace

Click on the image to select it, then click the Edit button on the top left corner of the editor. In the dialog with the edit options, choose Erase & Replace

Step 3: Select the object and remove it

You have two choices for object selection: brush or tap; pick the one you want and select the unwanted object in the photo. In the dialog, choose Eraser and watch the unwanted object or item disappear.

Step 4: Export or Download Your Edited Image

Ready to download your image? Click Download at the top right of the screen and you'll find multiple download options, including:

• PNG/JPG
• PDF
• HTLM5
• GIF

To share your project online, click on Share at the top right of your screen. Click on the “Copy” button to copy the shareable link. Or click the "Share on social” button to share your project on social media.

Effortlessly Edit Images & More with Visme

Never discard an image again because of a flaw or unwanted item. Thanks to Visme's photo editor, AI image edit tool and the Erase & Replace feature, you can use that image after you get rid of whatever it is that shouldn’t be there.

You can also replace the wrong object with another one by writing what you need in the prompt window. Other tools in the same group let you remove background from images, plus sharpen and upscale your photos.

Get started with Visme today and take advantage of all the AI image editing tools at your fingertips.

Written by Orana Velarde

Orana has been a writer for Visme since 2018, covering topics like design, visual marketing, data visualization and visual content creation. Orana has a background in graphic and web design, makeup artistry for film and theater and ongoingly takes courses on digital marketing, UI/UX and other related topics. See Orana’s work at www.oranavelarde.com.