How to Remove Stickers from a Photo

Delete Emoji Stickers and Overlays from Photos

Someone covered a photo with emoji stickers. Maybe it was sent that way on Snapchat, or someone added hearts and stars before posting. Now you need the clean original. AI can remove stickers by analyzing the surrounding image and intelligently reconstructing what the sticker was covering.

How AI Sticker Removal Works

EditThisPic's AI identifies the sticker overlay you describe, determines what likely exists underneath based on surrounding pixels, and generates a realistic fill. For stickers covering skin, it reconstructs skin tone and features. For stickers on backgrounds, it continues the scene. The smaller the sticker relative to the image, the cleaner the result.

Types of Stickers You Can Remove

• Emoji overlays covering faces or objects
• Snapchat and Instagram decorative stickers
• Heart, star, and sparkle stamps
• Text stickers and captions added by apps
• Date stamps and camera watermarks
• Drawn-on doodles and annotations

What to Expect with Large Stickers

Small stickers (covering less than 20% of the image) are removed cleanly because there's enough surrounding context for the AI to work with. Large stickers covering entire faces or major portions of the image are harder—the AI has to guess what's underneath, so results may not perfectly match the original. Multiple small stickers scattered across a photo can usually all be removed in one pass.

Tips for Best Results

Describe each sticker's location: 'remove the heart emoji on the left cheek' gives better results than 'remove all stickers.' For photos covered in many stickers, try removing them in groups by area: 'remove the stickers on the face' first, then 'remove the stickers on the background.' If the sticker was covering something important like an eye, run a second pass to refine the reconstruction.