A logo in a photo is a visible mark in the pixels, so no file tool can erase it. The only honest ways to deal with a visible logo are to crop it out, clone over it, or return to the original file. What a browser tool like the one below can strip is embedded logo metadata — the rare case where the logo lives in the file header rather than the picture.
| What the logo is | Where | What removes it |
|---|---|---|
| Logo burned into the picture | The pixels | Crop, clone, or the original file — not a file tool |
| Logo stored as metadata (EXIF / XMP / C2PA) | The header | Stripped in the browser, pixels untouched |
Most logos you meet are the first row. The tool below handles the second. The same layer logic for a watermark →
Drop a file. If the logo is embedded metadata, the cleaner strips it on your device with no upload. If it is a visible overlay, the tool says so plainly rather than faking a result.
Nothing cleaned yet
Paste text on the left and press Clean the file. What was removed shows up here, along with a count.
For images this panel also lists what was kept — the colour profile, for instance, so cleaning never changes how a picture looks.
For a logo on video, the same limit applies, with tool-specific steps. Remove a logo from a video: four options →
If the logo is stored as embedded metadata rather than painted on the pixels, the cleaner strips EXIF, XMP, and C2PA in your browser — no upload, no re-encoding. It reports what it kept (colour profile, orientation) so the picture displays exactly as before. Remove metadata from a file →
Not if the logo is part of the pixels, which is the usual case. A logo laid over a photo is inseparable from the image, so no file-level tool can erase it without altering the picture. The exception is a logo stored as embedded metadata — rare, but some exports tag it — and that layer a browser tool can strip.
Cropping the logo out is the only method that loses no quality, because it does not re-encode the remaining pixels — but you lose that part of the frame. Clone-stamp and content-aware fill keep the frame but invent pixels and can leave seams. Re-encoding with a blur is the lowest-quality route. There is no way to delete a visible logo and keep every original pixel.
Cropping changes the composition and discards the cropped region, but it does not degrade the quality of what remains the way re-encoding does. Whether it 'ruins' the picture depends on where the logo sits and how much of the frame you can spare. For a corner bug, a crop is often the cleanest result.
It can. A logo is often a trademark or copyrighted artwork, and removing it to use the image as if unbranded may breach the owner's rights or the terms under which you received the file. Removing a logo you placed on your own work is fine; removing someone else's usually is not. When in doubt, ask for a clean copy.
It removes embedded logo metadata, not a visible logo. If a logo is stored in the file header as EXIF, XMP, or a C2PA credential, the tool strips it in your browser with no upload. If the logo is burned into the pixels, the tool reports it cannot help and you should crop, clone, or go back to the source.
A logo is a specific brand mark; a watermark is a mark placed to signal ownership or deter copying, which is often a logo but can be a name or pattern. Functionally they are the same problem for removal: both are visible overlays in the pixels, so both need crop, clone, or the original file. The tool on this page handles neither as a visible mark, only as embedded metadata.