Remove Text From Photo

Photos pick up text you never asked for: a date stamp in the corner of an old JPEG, a shop sign behind the subject, a caption an app burned in, handwriting on a scanned print. When you want to remove text from photo memories or photography work, the challenge is that photos are not flat — there is skin, hair, foliage, sky, bokeh, film grain. Any edit that flattens those details will be visible from across the room.

DeleteText approaches the problem the way a retoucher would: rebuild only the letters, keep everything else. You brush over the text — the date stamp, the sign, the caption — and the AI reconstructs what sits behind it, matching the grain, lighting and depth of the rest of the photo. Faces and subjects outside your strokes are never re-rendered or "improved"; they stay exactly as shot, bit for bit.

This matters most with people. Skin tones carry subtle gradients that are easy to break, so precision is your friend: zoom in, use a small brush, and stay close to the lettering. For a date stamp on a plain sky or wall, one pass with a medium brush is usually invisible. For text crossing hair or textured fabric, two light passes beat one heavy pass every time.

The version history is what makes photo work forgiving. Every erase creates a new version, so you can try a conservative mask first, then a wider one, flip between them with the before/after slider, and keep the one your eye accepts. Nothing is overwritten — the original photo stays at version zero no matter what.

It costs nothing to find out whether your photo can be cleaned: registration includes 5 free credits and each erase costs 1. Pro adds 600 credits for $9.9 with full-resolution downloads and no watermark, which is what you want for print or client delivery. Upload the photo, brush the text away, and get back the picture you remember taking.