Remove a logo from a photo

A logo is usually a compact mark sitting on a fairly even surface — a wall, a shirt, a product, a sky. The difficulty is not finding it, it is boxing it tightly: a loose box throws away good surrounding texture the fill needs, and a box drawn too tight leaves the anti-aliased rim of the mark behind as a ghost. Fit to mark reads the colour of the box's own border, finds everything inside that clearly differs from it, and shrinks the box to that with a two-pixel margin.

From there the patch search does what it does best on a compact hole: it looks for the squares elsewhere in the photograph that best match the surface around the mark and copies them in, so the wall stays wall and the fabric stays fabric. Nothing is downloaded and nothing leaves the device.

Removing a visible mark does not remove copyright, licence terms or attribution duties. This route is for a logo you own, a client mark before delivery, or artwork whose rights holder lets you change it. It is not for platform watermarks or anyone else's branding on their content.

1. 1Draw a loose box. Around the whole logo, with a margin. Precision is not needed yet.
2. 2Press Fit to mark. In the Rectangle panel. The box shrinks to the mark; if nothing stands out from the border, it is left as drawn and the page says so.
3. 3Grow by two pixels. If the logo has a soft edge or a drop shadow, Grow 2 px catches its halo.
4. 4Erase and compare. The patch search fills it. Drag the divider over the area and look for repeated texture.
5. 5Re-roll if it repeats. Pick the row and re-roll for a new seed, or switch to the clone and place the pin yourself.

• A semi-transparent logo has tinted the picture under it rather than hiding it. A fill replaces that area; it does not un-blend the tint back out.
• On a surface with strong perspective lines — tiles, brickwork — the patch search can bend the lines. The clone from a well-placed pin, or the structure-aware model, does better.
• Fit to mark looks for contrast with the box's border. A logo the same colour as its surround will not be found; draw the box tight by hand.
• Nothing here can decide whether you are allowed to remove a mark.