AI Object Eraser — Pro, on our server
Erasing and filling are one move here, which is why the result is a photograph rather than a hole. In a conventional editor an eraser is destructive: it takes pixels away and leaves transparency, and the work of deciding what should be there instead falls to you and a clone stamp. This eraser hands that second half to a model. Your strokes define a region, the region is removed, and PowerPaint reads what surrounds it — the gradient of the sky above, the run of the fence on either side, the grain of the boards below — and paints in what that evidence implies. You get back a complete image at the same resolution, with every pixel outside your strokes exactly as it arrived.
There is no automatic detection, and that is a design decision rather than a gap. Auto-select is a pleasure when it agrees with you and a fight when it does not: it takes the shadow you wanted kept, stops at the edge of a strap you had not noticed, or merges the person with the railing they are leaning on. Each disagreement costs a run to discover. A brush has no opinions. Everything you cover goes; everything you leave stays; the selection is exactly as coarse or as careful as you chose to make it. In practice that means the skill on this page is masking, not prompting, and it repays the ordinary craft of working at high zoom with a small brush along the edges and a large one through the middle.
The mask lives at the photograph’s own resolution. You are not painting on a scaled-down proxy that gets stretched back up on our side, so a stroke laid between two fingers or along the top of a skirting board lands on those pixels and no others. When you run it, the mask travels as a small compressed image beside the photo, and the two are deleted together. Everything before that moment — loading the file, zooming, painting, erasing, changing your mind four times — happens in your browser with nothing sent anywhere at all, which is worth knowing if you are deciding whether to open a sensitive picture in it.
What it is for, and what it is not. Use it when one thing must go and the rest of the frame must survive untouched: the cases are set out under unwanted objects, people and the main object remover. Do not use it to lift a subject out of its background — that is a cutout, and the free on-device background remover does it in your browser with no upload and no run. The eraser is Cloud HD: Pro-only, opt-in, running on our GPU in the United States, with the photo and mask encrypted in transit, deleted when the run finishes and in all cases within 24 hours, and never used to train anything. Pro includes 150 runs a month on Monthly and 200 on Annual, of which 10 may be HD; erasing is HD, and a failed run is not charged.
