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Remove power lines from a photo
Paint over the wires that cut across your sky, and the eraser fills them in from the sky, wall or water around them.
Drop a photo to clean up
or paste it with ⌘V — anywhere on this page
From your gallery or camera
JPG · PNG · WebP · HEIC — up to 25 MP
- Never stored
- No watermark
- No sign-up
Works well on
- Date stampsOld camera dates in a corner
- App badgesOn photos and exports you made
- Text overlaysCaptions you no longer want
- PeopleStrangers behind you
How to do it
- 1Drop your photoJPG, PNG or WebP up to 25 megapixels.
- 2Paint over one section of wireUse the brush a little wider than the wire. Mark a short stretch at a time, not the whole line at once.
- 3Erase, then do the next stretchPress Enter to erase. Mark the next section on the result with Erase again, then download full size.
Why wires are worth removing
Power lines, phone cables and overhead streetcar wires are everywhere, and the eye ignores them in real life. In a photo they become thin dark lines straight through the sky, often across the best part of the picture. A sunset, a mountain view, a front-of-house shot for a rental listing or a street scene can all be spoiled by one cable.
Wires are also one of the easier things to erase. They are thin, and what is behind them is usually plain: sky, a painted wall, water. That is the kind of gap the eraser fills well.
How the eraser handles a wire
You paint over the wire with the brush. WipeMark cuts out the area around your mark, at most 1024 pixels, and sends only that to its server, where LaMa, an inpainting model, fills the marked part from what surrounds it. Your browser places the patch back into the full-size photo. It takes a few seconds, and nothing is stored.
The eraser does not detect wires for you. You choose what goes, which matters when you want to keep a pole, a lamp or a sign that the cables are attached to.
Paint in short sections
A long wire is the one case where how you mark matters most. Everything you mark in a single pass is treated as one area. If that area spans the whole width of a large photo, it is shrunk to fit the 1024-pixel limit before it is filled, and the fill is then stretched back to full size. Across clear sky that is often fine. Across textured clouds, water or a wall, it looks soft next to the sharp photo around it.
So mark a short stretch, press Enter, then mark the next stretch on the result with Erase again. Each section gets filled closer to the photo's own detail. Several short passes take a minute and look much better than one long one.
Paint slightly wider than the wire
A power line is a few pixels wide, but its edges are blended into the sky around it. If your brush only just covers the dark core, the pale edges are left behind as a faint ghost line. Press B for the brush and use the bracket keys to set a size a little wider than the wire, then paint along it in one steady stroke. Zoom in to check that nothing of the wire peeks out on either side.
What comes out cleanly and what does not
Easy: wires against clear or evenly clouded sky, plain walls, calm water, a blurred background, a sunset gradient.
Harder: wires crossing tree branches, where the eraser has to invent twigs and leaves. Wires passing in front of roof edges, window frames or a horizon, where straight lines can come out bent. Wires in front of text on a sign, which cannot be rebuilt because the eraser never saw it.
For the hard parts, mark very short sections, and accept a small leftover where the wire crosses a detailed area. A short stretch of real wire usually looks better than a smudge.
Real estate and listing photos
Removing wires from exterior shots of a home is common. If the photo is for a listing, check your listing site's photo rules before editing anything that changes what the property looks like. Wires running to the house are part of it, and a buyer will see them on a visit.
Which format to download
The download is your full photo at its original size. Choose JPG to keep a file size similar to a camera photo, PNG for no extra compression if you plan more edits, or WebP for smaller files on the web. Keep the original too, in case you want to redo a section differently.
Questions people ask
How do I remove power lines from a photo for free?
Drop the photo into the eraser above, paint over a section of the wire with the brush, slightly wider than the wire itself, and press Enter. The area is filled from its surroundings in a few seconds. Repeat for the next section, then download the full-size photo with no watermark.
Why does the fill look blurry along a long wire?
Everything you mark in one pass is sent as one area, reduced to at most 1024 pixels on its long side. A wire that crosses a whole high-resolution photo gets filled at a fraction of the photo's detail and scaled back up, which looks soft. Mark shorter sections so each area is small enough to keep its detail.
Can it remove wires in front of trees or buildings?
Sometimes. Against sky or a plain wall the fill is usually hard to spot. Where a wire crosses branches, roof edges, windows or lettering, the eraser has to guess the detail behind it, and lines can come out bent or smudged. Work in very short sections there and check each one.
Does it find the power lines on its own?
No. You paint over what you want removed. That keeps you in control of exactly which wires go and which stay, for example removing the cables but keeping a pole.
Should I remove the poles too?
Only if it still looks right. A wire that ends in mid-air at a pole looks odd, and so does a pole holding up nothing. Either remove both, or keep the pole and the short bits of wire attached to it.
Will the rest of my photo lose quality?
No. Only the area around your mark is sent and filled. The patch is placed back into your original full-size photo in the browser, and nothing is stored.