Remove objects from a photo

LaMa is strongest on backgrounds it can continue from the edges of the painted area: sky, walls, grass, sand, water, floors and fabric. It handles repeating patterns such as tiles and brickwork better than most fill tools, because it looks at the whole region at once instead of copying nearby patches.

• A stranger or a photobomber in front of a simple background.
• Power lines, signs, bins and parked bikes in travel shots.
• Stickers, price tags, dust spots and stray threads in product photos.
• Cables, chargers and clutter on a desk or a kitchen counter.

It finds three things hard. Large areas come out soft, because the model works at 512 × 512 pixels. Anything it would have to invent in detail, such as a hidden face, a hand or a line of text, looks vague. And shadows or reflections you didn’t paint over stay behind.

1. Paint generously. Going a few pixels past the edge stops a faint outline from staying behind.
2. Include the shadow and any reflection, or the model will keep them.
3. Erase big things in parts. Each erase works on a square around what you painted, so a smaller area gets more detail.
4. If something is left, press Erase something else, paint over the leftover and erase again. Edits build on each other.
5. Judge it at feed size. A fill that looks odd at full zoom is often invisible at the size people scroll past.

With WebGPU the model runs on your graphics chip, and once it has started an erase usually takes a few seconds. WebGPU is on in Chrome and Edge 113 or later on computers, Chrome on Android 12 phones with a supported GPU, Safari 26 on Mac, iPhone and iPad, and Firefox 141 or later on Windows. Elsewhere it runs on the processor instead, which took about 20 seconds per erase on a fast laptop in our tests and is slower on phones.

The model downloads once, 208 MB from Hugging Face, and your browser keeps it, so the next erase starts straight away. Your photo is never uploaded. Only the painted area and a soft edge a few pixels wide are replaced; every other pixel comes from your original, at full size. PNG, WebP and GIF files are saved as PNG, and other photos (JPEG, HEIC) as JPEG at 95% quality.

Taking a bin out of a holiday photo harms nobody. Taking someone else’s watermark or logo off their picture is different: the photo is their work, and their name belongs on it. Use this on your own photos, or ones you have permission to edit.

For product and property photos, only remove things that aren’t part of what you’re selling. Hiding a scratch, a stain or a crack misleads buyers, and it tends to come back as returns, refunds and angry messages.