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No. 08 — AI Tools · Cloud HDPro · on our GPU

Tourists, removed, the landmark stays.

You waited, and they did not move. Paint over the strangers scattered across the plaza and our GPU continues the paving, the stonework and the sky — one mask, however many people, one run.

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How it works

  1. Pick the landmark shot — JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 25 MB and 24 megapixels.
  2. Paint every figure into the same mask, shadows and reflections included. Everything you leave unpainted comes back untouched.
  3. PowerPaint fills the painted regions from the surrounding scene and returns a PNG at your original size. One HD run, of the 10 you get each month.

This page is the object remover, tuned to travel photography — many small figures rather than one large subject.

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Remove Tourists from Travel Photos — Pro, on our server

Scattered is easy; packed is not. The useful question at a monument is not how many people are in the shot but how much unbroken background sits between them. Fifteen visitors spread across a wide flight of steps each leave a small hole with stone on every side, and each one closes so well that the eye never finds it. The same fifteen bunched shoulder to shoulder across the entrance leave one long band in which the model can see nothing of what it is meant to rebuild, so it composes an entrance from what it knows about entrances. That version can look entirely convincing and still be architecturally invented, which for a picture of a real place is worth knowing before you print it at a metre wide.

Built structure is what makes landmarks demanding. Nature forgives: foliage, water, sand and sky have no lines that must meet. Classical architecture does nothing but repeat measured intervals — treads, balusters, cornices, window bays, mortar courses — and each one crossing your mask has to leave one edge and arrive exactly on the other. PowerPaint is good at this over short distances and increasingly approximate over long ones. In practice that means the people standing on plain paving vanish first, the ones against a blank wall vanish next, and the one leaning on the balustrade is the figure that takes a second attempt or a slightly different mask.

Paint one mask, not ten runs. A single mask can hold as many separate strokes as you like, and the whole thing is one HD run — so sweep the entire frame in one sitting, covering each person plus the shadow they throw across bright paving and any reflection in a glass door or a wet stone. Zoom in for the distant figures; they are small on screen but often only a hundred pixels wide, and a rough stroke around one leaves a leg behind. Then judge the result at full size and spend a second run only on what genuinely failed. Before any of that, consider a crop — a tighter frame often removes a whole corner of a crowd at no cost and with nothing reconstructed at all.

Afterwards, and where your photo goes. Removal is one step of a travel edit. Cutting the file down for a blog or a group chat is on-device work — the image compressor does it in your browser with no upload. A wider tidy-up of bins, signage and cabling is photo clean-up, and a single stranger who wandered into the frame behind your family is photobomber removal; the machinery under all of them is the same object remover. Removal itself is Cloud HD — Pro-only and opt-in, 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 allows 150 runs a month on Monthly and 200 on Annual, 10 of which may be HD.

How it works

  1. Open the tourist remover: Go to minipx.com/remove-tourists-from-photo with a Pro account.
  2. Upload the landmark shot: JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 25 MB and 24 megapixels, uploaded encrypted for this run only.
  3. Paint every figure into one mask: Work across the frame covering each person, their shadow on the paving and their reflection in any glass. Separate strokes, one mask, one run.
  4. Run it and check the architecture: Download the full-resolution PNG and follow the step edges and column lines across each filled area before you keep it.

Frequently asked questions

Can I clear an entire crowd in one attempt?
You can paint as many separate figures as you like into a single mask, and it is one run either way. Whether the result holds up depends on density. Twenty scattered people across a wide plaza, each small and standing on plain paving, generally comes back clean. A packed queue three deep along a facade is one continuous wall of bodies with no visible background to copy from, and the fill has to author the building.
Is it better to paint everyone at once or work in several passes?
Start with one pass covering everyone — it costs a single HD run and often finishes the job. Use a second pass only for what survived, painting over the specific artefact rather than starting again from the original. Passes are cumulative in effect but each one costs a run, so a considered first mask is worth more than a fast one.
What happens where people overlap steps, railings and columns?
That is the hard part of a landmark shot. Architecture is full of long straight edges and repeating rhythm — treads, balusters, window bays — and the model must carry each line across the gap and land it on the far side. Small gaps close convincingly; a figure hiding a whole column produces a column that is plausible but not the one that is really there.
Does the same approach work for a busy street rather than a monument?
It works better, usually. Street scenes give you road surface, pavement, shopfronts and shadow — broad even textures with fewer precise alignments to honour than classical stonework. The awkward remainder tends to be reflections in glass and the shadows people cast across a sunlit pavement, both of which need to be inside the mask or they stay behind as orphans.
Is there a way to get an empty shot in camera instead?
Yes, and it beats any edit. A tripod plus a strong neutral-density filter and a long exposure turns moving people into nothing at all, since anyone walking is not in one place long enough to register. Failing that, shoot early — most crowded sites are genuinely quiet in the first hour after opening, and an unedited photograph never has a seam to inspect.
Where is my holiday photo processed, and does it stay there?
It runs on our GPU in the United States, because this model is too heavy for a browser — that is Cloud HD, a Pro-only option you switch on yourself. The photo and your mask are encrypted in transit, used for the single run, then deleted when the run finishes and in all cases within 24 hours. Nothing is used to train anything.