Blemishes, gone, skin texture kept.

One mechanism, honestly described. Every AI editing tool on this site does exactly one thing, and this one paints over a region you selected with a reconstruction of what surrounds it. That is why the page is called blemish removal rather than portrait retouching. A retouching workflow separates colour from texture, balances tone across a face, sculpts light and preserves pores deliberately; nothing here does any of that, and a tool that quietly smoothed skin while claiming to remove a spot would be lying about what it changed. What you get instead is precise and limited: the pixels under your brush are replaced, every other pixel in the file is returned exactly as it arrived, and you can verify that by flipping between the two images.

Size is not a detail here, it is the whole story. A reconstructed patch is always slightly more regular than the skin it replaces — the model produces the average of what it saw around the hole, and real skin is not average. Across three millimetres nobody alive can see that. Across a cheekbone it reads as a soft plastic area, the specific artefact that makes an edit look cheap. So the discipline is to zoom in hard, take the smallest brush that covers the mark, and accept several separate dots rather than one confident sweep. If a blemish is genuinely large — a healing graze, a birthmark across half a face — the honest answer is that this tool will hand back a smooth region rather than skin, and you would be better served by a different photograph or by leaving it in.

Know which marks belong to the face. Spots, a stray eyelash on a cheek, a fleck of food, a shine of flash on a forehead, a pen mark on a printed portrait: discrete, temporary, and surrounded by ordinary skin. Lines, shadows, the set of a mouth and the shape under an eye: continuous, structural, and part of how the face is recognised. Masking the second kind removes the geometry that made the picture look like the person, and the fill returns something flatter and younger and less like them. If the portrait needs help for reasons that are not marks at all — soft focus, noise from a dark room, the general mush of an old phone camera — that is not a mask job and belongs to the photo enhancer, which works on the whole frame instead.

Where the file goes, and what else is on this site. This is Cloud HD: Pro-only, opt-in, run on our GPU in the United States because PowerPaint is far too heavy for a browser. Your photo and mask are encrypted in transit, processed once, deleted when the run finishes and in all cases within 24 hours, and never used to train anything. Pro gives 150 runs a month on Monthly and 200 on Annual, of which 10 may be HD runs. For the rest of a portrait edit, the wider frame is covered by the general object remover and by photo clean-up; a cutout for a profile picture is free and on-device in the background remover, which uploads nothing at all.