This gives you the ultimate flexibility later on if you need to adjust your edits, and you won’t have to start from scratch if something goes wrong. The best way to handle cloning and healing is to apply all your edits to a new layer, or even to multiple new layers in larger projects.
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Here’s how to use them to remove a watermark in GIMP: Step 1: Create A New Layer Thanks to the Undo command, experimenting is always easy!įortunately, the settings and processes for the Clone Stamp tool also work with the Healing tool, you’ll just get a slightly different result. Sometimes you’ll even need to use some combination of the two in order to get the perfect result. The Clone Stamp tool usually provides the best-looking edit, but the Healing tool can recreate textures very effectively – and it can even save you a huge amount of time when working with smooth backgrounds. If you care about removing a watermark so completely that nobody can tell it was there, this is your best approach.Ĭhoosing between the Clone Stamp tool and the Healing tool can be difficult sometimes, and the right choice often depends on the image content that you’re working with. Using the Clone Stamp and Healing tools to remove a watermark is the most time-consuming and painstaking method, but it will also produce the best results. Sometimes it’s better to crop a bit of additional image area from one side, even if it’s not watermarked, to maintain the same aspect ratio – but you’ll have to use your own judgment about the right crop area for each image.
Keep in mind that many photos benefit visually from the standard 3:2 aspect ratio used by all major camera manufacturers, and cropping an image like this can throw things off, depending on where you place your crop area.
Once you’re happy with the final result, press Enter to finalize your crop. This crop area will remove my watermark from the bottom right corner while still keeping the same image aspect ratio, even if it’s not an ideal compositionĬlick and drag to define your crop area, aligning the edges to trim off the watermark while leaving the rest of the image intact.
Whatever your reasons for removing a watermark, there are three basic methods that you can use in GIMP: use cropping, use clone stamping, or use a third-party plugin to cover it up automatically. Then again, the whole world of memes is a grey area, and I’m not a lawyer, nor do I play one on the internet. It’s even possible that you just want to remove a watermark placed automatically by an image sharing service used by meme-makers such as Imgur or 9gag, although that may already be starting to reach a legal grey area. Losing your original source files can be painful! Many older photos were automatically watermarked with the time and date, and you might even find yourself in a situation where you need to remove a watermark that you added to your own image. It may even help you design more effective watermarks to protect your own work. I almost didn’t end up writing this article because of all the legal and ethical complications, but there are enough situations where it could be helpful (and perfectly legal/moral) to justify a good explanation. Depending on who owns the original image, your intentions, what you do with the edited image, and where you live, you might also get into legal trouble. Think long and hard about why you want to remove a watermark from an image before you do so – you might be unintentionally hurting the artist who created the image.
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