Clone Stamp & Healing Brush
Remove blemishes, dust spots and date stamps from photos: paint over them to heal, or clone one part of the picture over another. Free and online.
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Remove blemishes, dust spots and date stamps from photos: paint over them to heal, or clone one part of the picture over another. Free and online.
or browse filesdrop an image here or paste
This page is a healing brush and a clone stamp tool for photos, in the browser. Select a picture and paint over what should not be there: a pimple or a scar in a portrait, dust spots from a dirty lens or a scanned print, a stray hair, a power line across the sky, or the orange date stamp an old camera printed in the corner. When you let go, the painted area is filled from the picture itself, so the fix looks like the photo around it rather than a patch of paint. Heal does this automatically, Clone copies from a spot you choose, and Zoom moves around a zoomed-in picture. It sits next to other photo fixes on this site, such as the red eye remover and blur face.
With Heal selected, the stroke shows as a red wash while you paint. On release, the tool looks around the painted area for a patch whose surroundings match yours, copies its texture in, and blends its colour and light into the edges of your stroke, the same idea as the spot healing brush in Photoshop (a Poisson blend). Because real texture is copied, skin keeps its pores and a blue sky keeps its grain; nothing is smeared flat. Two habits give the cleanest result: make the brush a little bigger than the spot, and cover the whole thing in one stroke. A long object such as a wire or a crack is one stroke along its length. Softness widens the soft edge around the healed area.
Clone mode puts a round marker with a cross on the photo. Drag it onto the part you want to copy from (on a computer, Alt+click also sets it), then paint where the copy should go. What is under the marker appears under the brush, and the marker travels along with your stroke, so a long stroke copies a matching strip. Use Clone where Heal guesses wrong: along a hard edge, on repeating patterns like bricks, tiles or a fence, or when you want to duplicate something on purpose. Softness here sets how gently the copied area fades into the photo.
The brush keeps its size on the screen, the way phone retouching apps work, so to fix a tiny speck you zoom in rather than hunting for a smaller brush. Pinch on a phone, scroll on a computer, or pick Zoom and drag the picture around; a double tap fits it again. The magnifier button shows what is under your finger while you paint. On a keyboard, [ and ] change the brush size, H, S and Z switch between Heal, Clone and Zoom, Ctrl+Z undoes, Ctrl+Shift+Z redoes, and holding Space lets you drag the picture in any mode.
Every stroke is applied to the full-size photo, not to a smaller preview, so the file you download is exactly what you painted, pixel for pixel. Undo and redo step through every stroke, and the circular arrow restores the original in one go (redo brings your work back). A JPG comes back as a JPG by default; the menu next to the download button switches to PNG for a lossless copy or WebP for a smaller file. You can rename the file first, copy the result to the clipboard, or share it from a phone.
The photos people retouch are often the personal ones: a portrait before it goes on a profile, a scanned family picture, a close-up of skin. Here the picture is opened, retouched and saved inside your browser; it is never uploaded to a server, so nobody else sees it. There is no account, no watermark and no limit on how many photos you fix.
Select the photo, keep Heal selected and paint over the blemish so the red wash covers all of it, with a little margin. Let go and it is healed from the skin around it. Zoom in first if the spot is small, and use Undo if you want to try again with a bigger brush.
The healing brush chooses where to take texture from and blends the colour and light of the patch into its surroundings. The clone stamp copies exactly what is under its marker, with no blending, which makes it the right tool along edges and on patterns, where a blend would look soft.
The stroke probably covered only part of the object, or it crossed a strong edge such as a dark line on a light wall. Undo, then cover the whole object in one stroke, or switch to Clone and copy from a matching spot along the edge.
Yes. Zoom in on the numbers and paint over them in one stroke with Heal. On a busy background, Clone from a similar area next to the stamp gives the most control.
Yes. Paint with a finger, pinch to zoom, and turn on the magnifier to see under your fingertip. Fullscreen keeps the brush controls at the bottom of the screen while the photo takes the rest.
No. The photo is decoded, retouched and saved on your own device, and the page works the same with the connection switched off once it has loaded.