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Remove objects from photos with AI

Upload an image, brush over the object, and erase it — the background fills in naturally, no cloning or retouching. For photographers and e-commerce teams.

Comparison with the state-of-the-art

The cleanest removals of any model we tested.

On RemovalBench, Ideogram posts the strongest scores of the object removers measured. Pick an example and a competitor below, then drag to see where the others leave artifacts, halos, and half-erased shadows. The blue overlay marks the mask, the region each model was asked to remove.

FID score Lower is better
Ideogram Object Remover 27.77
Nano Banana 2 31.93
Finegrain Eraser 34.60
FLUX Pro Erase 38.06
Nano Banana 2 Lite 44.44
GPT Image-2 Medium 71.29
Price per request Lower is better
Ideogram Object Remover $0.030
Nano Banana 2 Lite $0.034
FLUX Erase $0.034
GPT Image-2 Medium $0.053
Nano Banana 2 $0.067
Finegrain Eraser $0.270

Full-reference quality: PSNR 26.92, SSIM 0.811, LPIPS 0.0598. Average latency about 9.8 seconds. Scores from RemovalBench.

Ideogram
five people standing on a wet beach Before
FLUX Erase
five people standing on a wet beach Before

How to remove objects from a picture with AI

  1. Step 1

    Upload your image

    Start with any photo that has an object, person, or distraction you want removed.

  2. Step 2

    Mask the object

    Brush over the object you want to remove — the mask defines exactly which pixels get regenerated.

  3. Step 3

    Generate

    The object disappears and the background fills in naturally, matching the surrounding scene.

Before and after removing a passerby from a photo of a woman seated at an outdoor cafe table

Remove unwanted objects from photos online

Brush over a photobomber, street sign, power line, or piece of clutter and Ideogram erases it while rebuilding the background behind it. You do not need masking skills in Photoshop or hours of clone-stamp work; mark the distraction and generate a cleaner frame in seconds.

Before and after removing a second t-shirt from a product photo of hanging apparel

Clean up product shots and listing images

Distracting props, packaging labels, and background mess pull focus away from what you are selling. Object Remover helps e-commerce teams, marketplace sellers, and brand designers deliver polished listing photos and campaign visuals without reshooting or sending every asset through a retouching queue.

Before and after removing background people from a nightclub photo while preserving green lighting and texture

Backgrounds that match lighting, texture, and perspective

Generic erasers often leave smudges or flat patches where an object used to be. Ideogram reads the surrounding pixels and reconstructs the cleared area so shadows, grain, and perspective stay consistent with the original shot. The result should read as if the distraction was never in the frame.

Before and after removing handwritten text from a coffee mug in a product photo

Remove text, logos, and watermarks from photos

Date stamps, burned-in captions, corner logos, and watermark overlays can ruin an otherwise strong image. Brush over the lettering or mark you want gone and Object Remover rebuilds the surface underneath so type and texture blend back into the scene. Use it on screenshots, scanned prints, stock cleanup, and brand mockups where the composition works but the overlay does not.

Examples

Portrait of the same man wearing an orange beanie without sunglasses
Man in an orange beanie and coat wearing tinted sunglasses
Before After
the same plaza with the bicycle removed
a red bicycle in a cobblestone plaza
Before After
the sunlit room with the plant removed
a potted fiddle-leaf fig in a sunlit room
Before After
the rain-soaked street with the taxi removed
a yellow taxi on a rain-soaked city street
Before After
the gallery with the sculpture removed
a chrome sculpture in a gallery
Before After
the lake with the boat removed
a rowboat on a mountain lake
Before After
the neon city rooftop with the figure removed
a chrome-armored figure leaping over a neon city
Before After
API

Remove objects from photos via the API

Send a photo and mask to the remove-object endpoint and get back a clean image with the selected area filled in. Built for marketplaces, creative tools, and any product that needs programmatic object removal.

Get API Key
POST /v1/remove-object 
                      curl -X POST https://api.ideogram.ai/v1/remove-object \
  -H 'Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -F '[email protected]' \
  -F '[email protected]'

Frequently asked questions about Object Remover

What does the object remover do? +
It removes a masked object or person from a photo and fills the gap with a plausible, scene-matched background — no manual cloning or patching.
What kinds of objects can I remove? +
Anything you can brush over: people, signage, cables, photobombers, watermarks, or clutter in the foreground or background of a shot.
Does it change the rest of my image? +
It can. Ideogram may update pixels outside your mask to remove shadows and reflections associated with the selected object, while keeping unrelated areas as close to the original as possible.
Is there an API for this? +
Yes — POST an image and a mask to /v1/remove-object and get the edited image back. See the API example below.