3 Best Ways to Remove a Smiley from Pictures Online – Guiding Tech

A picture is modifiable in several ways. You can add text to it, crop it into shapes, add effects and filters, give emotions to it by adding emojis on it. Sometimes, after adding emojis on a photo, we want to view the original picture without the smiley. If you are still editing the photo, you can undo the changes, but if you have saved the copy and you dont have the original file, how do you remove the smiley from your image?

In this post, we will tell you how to remove smiley from your images. The same concept can be used to remove text and other objects without Photoshop.

However, its important to know that removing the smiley will not replace it with the original background. It will be swapped with the surrounding background that will make it look like an unedited photo.

Note: Sometimes, we use emojis to hide faces. Removing emojis will not show you the face behind the emoji.

Lets check out the three ways to remove emojis online from your pictures without downloading any software.

With these editors, you need to brush on the object that you want to delete. The tool will automatically replace the object with a nearby background. You can remove emojis, text, and even humans from photos. Here are two editors to help you.

Inpaint is one of the easiest tools usable to remove emojis. All you need to do is add a mask on the object that you want to remove and hit the Erase button. Voila! You will be astonished by the results. Here are the steps:

Step 1: Open the website using the link given below.

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Step 2: Click on Upload Image and add your image from which you want to remove the smiley.

Step 3: By default, the eraser marker will be selected. However, if you want to confirm the same, click on the red icon on the left side.

Step 4: Start brushing on the smiley that you want to remove. A red mask will be added to it. Color the entire object with the mask. You dont have to take care of the borders strictly. You add color outside the object too and the site will still detect the object automatically. Then hit the Erase button at the top.

Step 5: The tool will replace the emoji with the existing background.

Step 1: Launch the website and click on Upload file to add the image.

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Step 2: Scroll down to view the items present in the left sidebar. Click on Clone.

Step 3: Just like the clone tool on any app, you need to select the cloning area. For that, press Alt key on your keyboard and click the area to select it. Once selected, hold the mouse button and brush the emoji with the cloning area.

Sometimes, the emoji can be easily cropped from the picture without affecting the actual image. Then you dont need to use either the heal or clone tool. However, since you are cropping the image, you will lose a part of the image. Use this method only when the emoji is at the borders. You can use online tools like BeFunky, LunaPic, Fotor, and more to crop the image.

Photopea, one of the best online replacements of Photoshop, can be used to remove emojis from photos without having any prior knowledge about photo editing. The tool offers both heal and clone mode, among many other photo editing features.

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Open the website and click on the Healing brush icon present in the left sidebar. Click on Healing Brush tool from the menu.

Press the Alt key on your keyboard and click the mouse button simultaneously to select the source. Then stroke the image to replace it with the background.

To use the clone mode, click on the Clone icon and select the cloning area by hitting Alt key and mouse button.

The above methods help in removing the emoji by covering it with the surrounding background. As mentioned before, the faces under the emojis cannot be unmasked. The same is true for Twitter stickers. While you can swap it with the background, the underlying data be it text or face cannot be seen.

Next up: Want to add color to your old black and white pictures? Do it with these online tools.

Last updated on 15 Oct, 2019