Watermark Remover.io uses AI to erase the watermarks used by stock image companies on copyrighted images in seconds, with little to no artifacts remaining.

Stock photos have watermarks to make sure that you don't use them without paying for them. Removing them used to take some Photoshop know-how, but Google found a way to remove them automatically.

Stock Photo Companies Randomize Their Watermarks to Foil Google's Clever Algorithm. Elizabeth Stinson. Updated Thu, Aug 24, 2017, 11:00 AM.

Tools like Watermark Remover.io can already scrub marks from companies like Shutterstock, and a research team at Google built a watermark removal algorithm in 2017 to highlight the need for more ...

If you don't want the copyright watermark to appear as a solid image over your copyrighted image, thereby covering up the image underneath, set the opacity of the layer into which you inserted it ...

"Our engineering team developed a watermark randomizer so that no two watermarks are the same," says Shutterstock CTO Martin Brodbeck. "The shapes vary per image and include contributor names.

Watermarks are placed on copyrighted images like stock-photos in order to keep people from using them without permission or without paying. And manually removing them requires Photoshop skills ...

The issue, as Google explains it, is that most stock photo companies apply the same watermark to their entire image library. Feed enough images—fewer than 1,000 in this case—into a neural ...