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Evoto Shadow Remover
Evoto Shadow Remover clears harsh face and portrait shadows in one click while keeping skin tones natural, inside the Evoto editor.
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AI Ease Shadow Remover
Brush over a shadow and it erases it, rebuilding what should have been underneath, on a free daily credit allowance.
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Overview
AIEASE Shadow Remover takes a shadow out of a photo. You paint over the shadow with a brush rather than letting the tool pick it out. You mark it, the model works out what should sit underneath, and fills that in. Marking it yourself means the tool never has to guess which dark areas you want gone. It lifts a shadow off a face without touching the ones you want to keep. An eraser refines the selection and a before and after preview shows the result.
It runs in the browser, and an account is required. Free credits refresh daily and free downloads are low resolution. High-resolution downloads need a subscription. The same brush also removes objects, people, text and watermarks.
Key features
✓Brush over the shadow you want gone
✓Eraser refines the selection before running
✓Rebuilds what should sit under the shadow
✓Works on face shadows from harsh light
✓Works on shadows cast by objects overhead
✓Before and after preview before you download
✓Free daily credits, high-res downloads are paid
✓Runs in the browser, nothing to install
✓Shares a brush workflow with its object & text removers
When to use
Use AIEASE Shadow Remover if:
- Harsh sunlight has dropped a hard shadow across someone's face and you want that one gone.
- Something overhead, like a hat brim or a light fitting, cast a shadow into the frame.
- You want to fix one area and leave the rest of the photo alone, since you mark that area yourself.
- An automatic shadow tool has already flattened shadows you wanted to keep.
- You want to test it on your own photo first, since free credits refresh daily.
- You are cleaning up other things in the same picture, because objects, text and watermarks use the same brush.
When NOT to use
Skip AIEASE Shadow Remover if any of these describe you:
- The shadow is large or blends into detail you care about. The bigger the area you brush, the more the model is inventing rather than repairing.
- The shadow is nearly black. Once an area has gone solid dark, nothing survives underneath to recover, so what comes back is made up.
- The whole photo is badly lit rather than having one bad shadow. That is relighting, and a photo editor with exposure and curves is the right tool.
- You would rather not mark anything. Other shadow removers run automatically and decide for you.
Frequently asked questions
Because a shadow is not obviously a fault. A photo is full of dark areas that belong there. The shading that gives a face its shape, the shadow under an object on a table, the natural falloff of light across a scene. An automatic tool has to guess which of those you want removed, and a wrong guess flattens the picture. Marking the shadow yourself means only the area you mark changes. It is more effort.
A camera records almost nothing inside a deep shadow, so the detail you want back was never captured. The model can even out the brightness, but whatever it puts in that area is invented from the surroundings rather than recovered from your photo. Light and medium shadows, where some detail survived, recover more detail than a black one.
There is an eraser to refine the selection before you run it, so you can pull the marked area back off anything you did not mean to include. Everything you paint over gets rebuilt, including parts of the photo that were fine.
Usually not. The small shadow where an object meets the surface is what tells the eye it is sitting on something. Without it, a product can look like it is floating. If your problem is a long shadow thrown across the scene by bad lighting, brush that and leave the contact shadow alone.
You need an account. Free credits refresh daily, which covers occasional edits. Free downloads come at low resolution. High-resolution downloads need a subscription. There is no watermark on the result. Check AIEASE's current terms before relying on the free tier, since these limits change.
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