Watermark Remover.io uses AI to erase the watermarks used by stock image companies on copyrighted images in seconds, with little to no artifacts remaining.

In that case, stock photo companies, which watermark millions of photos for image previews, seemed to be at particular risk. Recommended Videos.

Stock photos have watermarks to make sure that you don't use them without paying for them. Removing them used to take some Photoshop know-how, but Google found a way to remove them automatically.

The issue, as Google explains it, is that most stock photo companies apply the same watermark to their entire image library. Feed enough images—fewer than 1,000 in this case—into a neural ...

Tools like Watermark Remover.io can already scrub marks from companies like Shutterstock, and a research team at Google built a watermark removal algorithm in 2017 to highlight the need for more ...

"Our engineering team developed a watermark randomizer so that no two watermarks are the same," says Shutterstock CTO Martin Brodbeck. "The shapes vary per image and include contributor names.

Google Found a Hack to Remove Stock Photo Watermarks—Then Figured Out How to Stop It The key is 'warping' the image. By John Bonazzo • 08/18/17 11:29am.

Stock Photo Companies Randomize Their Watermarks to Foil Google's Clever Algorithm. Elizabeth Stinson. Updated Thu, Aug 24, 2017, 11:00 AM.