
If you want to share a photo online, you may need to take off the watermark first. Photos with watermarks are not allowed on a lot of websites and social media sites. If you want to make a picture look better, you might want to get rid of the watermark. A watermark can sometimes be annoying or look bad. This is because the watermark could be seen as a violation of the copyright. If you want to use a photo for business, like in an ad or on a product, you usually have to take off the watermark first. Although it appears the small size of the iStockPhoto composition images seems to make Content-Aware fill less useful, larger watermarked images might be easier. I suggest spending a little more time to remove watermarks, and you’ll get a better result. This tool does most of the work for you, but isn’t the definitive solution for complex removals.

But as you can see, most of the images came out looking pretty good, although some artefacts are still visible, you can probably clean them up.

It appears as though Content-Aware fill struggles on small resolution images with complex textured backgrounds (like the paper duck hunters eccentric t-shirt). BigStockPhoto seems to be the hardest of them all in my opinion, most image watermarks on BigStockPhoto images I attempted to remove failed miserably. Yes, you can remove watermarks from iStockPhoto images and I assume a few others. The same image with it's watermark removed using Content-Aware Fill The same image with it's watermark removed using Content-Aware Fill Test 4: Remove a watermark from 2 business men with buckets on their heads in a field

The same image with it's watermark removed using Content-Aware Fill Test 3: Remove a watermark from a paper duck hunter

The same image with it's watermark removed using Content-Aware Fill Test 2: Remove a watermark from a cartoon forest The watermarked iStockPhoto image (untouched) Test 1: Remove a watermark from a strawberry I’m sure with a little bit of time spent on using the tool carefully, you would get a much better result. When the amazing content-aware fill feature was announced a little while before CS5’s impending launch the first thought that came to mind was, “Am I going to be able to remove watermarks from iStockPhoto images with it?” So when a copy of Photoshop CS5 recently fell into my lap, I decided to test this theory out.īelow are images with both the watermark and watermarks removed from the images, no more than 3 or so minutes was spent on the images.
