AI Object Remover — Magic Eraser
Remove a photobomber, a bin or a stray cable from a photo. Tap it, circle it or paint over it, see how much of the frame it takes, and MI-GAN fills the gap.
The photo
Photo
Drop a photo here
PNG, JPEG or WebP · one picture at a time
—
—
How much
About to erase
Add a photo, then tap, circle or paint over what you want gone.
Erasing something
- Drop a photo onto the Photo box. JPEG, PNG and WebP all load, and on a phone Take photo shoots one straight into the editor.
- Tap the thing you want gone, or draw a loop around it. The first mark fetches the picker and reads the photo, which takes a few seconds; after that each mark outlines at once. From the keyboard, tab to the photo, steer the crosshair with the arrow keys and press Enter to mark what sits under it.
- If the outline took too much or too little, step How much between Whole, Part and Detail. Drag to paint whatever a tap misses, Alt-drag (Option on a Mac) to scrub paint back off, and tap a marked thing or a painted stroke to drop it. On a phone, hold a finger still to see an outline before you lift, and switch the touch mode to Paint when you want a drag to paint instead of scroll.
- Press Erase. The fill model arrives the first time, and the status line counts its download before it draws and blends the fill.
- Flip Compare between Original and Erased to look at the seam. Happy with it, press Download; otherwise Undo last erase puts the patch back and you can take it in tighter passes.
About this tool
Somebody wandered into the frame. Tap them and the outline snaps to their edge, or drag over them with the brush; either way the eraser repaints that patch from whatever surrounds it. Sky carries on, grass fills back in, a wall keeps its colour. What comes back is texture the model believes belongs there, so it is convincing on small and medium things against sky, sand, foliage or a plain wall, and it struggles the moment it has to invent something big or built. Brick courses bend. Fence rails wander off.
The first mark brings a second, smaller model that outlines things. It reads the photo once and answers every later tap or loop at once, and it outlines nothing you have not pointed at. A tap is ambiguous on purpose: the picker returns three outlines, the most it saw there down to the least, and How much steps between them. Draw a loop instead and every outline stops at your line, which is how a leash lying on a lawn comes out as the leash rather than the lawn. The eraser itself works on a square crop around what you marked, at least 512 pixels and grown until the hole is about a sixth of it. Before you press Erase the page measures your whole selection against that square, and when it would swallow more than 30 percent it says Too much at once and holds the button.
A lamppost and a bin in one pass
Take a 4032 by 3024 street photo with a lamppost about 90 pixels wide and 1400 tall, and a bin 330 by 430 standing a little way off. Paint the post, tap the bin, and the payoff line reads 2 things at 5.4% of what the eraser sees, on a crop of 2226 by 2226. That is comfortably inside the room the model wants, so Erase is ready.
Paint a van that fills most of the street instead and the same line jumps past 30 percent on a crop as tall as the photo itself. The caution says the photo has no more room around it to draw from, Erase stays held, and the remedy is to undo the stroke and take the van in a few smaller passes.
Good to know
- What you get back is invented texture that looks right, not a record of what was actually behind the object. Check the seam at full zoom before the picture goes anywhere that matters.
- Regular structure defeats it. Brick, railings, tiled floors and lines of text bend or blur where the fill meets the original, and a big removal near the edge of a photo has little left nearby to copy from.
Frequently asked questions
Can I remove a person from a photo with this?
People are the most common job it gets. Tap the person, or loop around them if they stand close to someone else, and check the outline took the whole figure (step How much up to Whole if it only took a shirt). Then paint their shadow as well. Someone standing against grass, sky or a painted wall fills in cleanly. Someone standing in front of a bookshelf usually does not.
What does the eraser download, and when?
Two models, each only when you first need it. The fill is 28.2 MB plus the ONNX runtime that runs it, 12.9 MB on the processor or 23.1 MB with WebGPU, and it arrives on your first Erase. The picker is 38 MB and arrives on your first tap or loop, so if you only paint you never fetch it. The badge above the photo says which is still to come on this device.
Why does it say Too much at once?
The model fills from the square of photo around what you marked, and once your selection covers more than 30 percent of that square there is not enough left to copy from. The page measures this before you press, so Erase is held instead of handing you a smear. Step How much down, drop a mark, or undo and take it in pieces.
Do I get my JPEG back as a JPEG?
A JPEG comes back as JPEG and a WebP as WebP, so a large holiday photo does not triple in size on the way out. Everything else saves as PNG. The filename is your original with -erased on the end.
It smudged. What should I do differently?
Undo last erase and take it in pieces. When a selection is over about 18 percent of what the eraser can see, the page warns after the erase that it may have smudged, because that is where fills start to go soft. Four small passes around a car often work where one pass over the whole car fails.
Missing something in AI Object Remover — Magic Eraser? Suggest a feature →
Tell someone who needs this.