Remove Shadows from Product Photos

A product photo has one job: show the product clearly and consistently. Harsh shadows work against both. They hide edges and texture, they make a white or light-colored item look dirty or uneven, and they make a catalog look inconsistent when half the photos were taken near a window and half under a lamp.

Fixing that normally means a reshoot with a light tent or a lot of manual retouching. For sellers with dozens or hundreds of items, or photos that were taken by suppliers and cannot be retaken, a one-step shadow remover is a practical shortcut.

This is the preset instruction for the product scene. It is worth reading because it shows what the tool will and will not do:

This is a product photo. Remove the cast shadows and harsh shadows around and under the product so the lighting looks clean and even, while keeping the product's shape, material, color, labels and logos exactly the same. Keep a natural soft contact shadow only if needed for realism.

Two parts matter most. First, the model is told to keep the product's identity: shape, material, color, labels and logos. Second, it may keep a natural soft contact shadow where the product touches the surface, because a product with no shadow at all can look like it is floating. Every run also adds a rule block that forbids inventing new objects or text and keeps the framing unchanged.

Better light means fewer corrections. A few cheap habits help a lot:

• Diffuse the light. Shoot beside a window with a sheer curtain, or bounce a lamp off a white wall instead of aiming it at the product.
• Add a white card opposite the light to fill the shadow side.
• Lift the product away from the backdrop a little, or use a sweep, so the shadow falls softly rather than as a hard edge.
• Keep your body out of the light path. A phone, a hand or a head can cast the shadow you later have to remove.
• Shoot at the highest quality your camera offers and keep the original file; the tool works best with sharp, uncompressed source images.

1. Logos and printed text on the product still match the original, letter for letter.
2. Color has not shifted. Relighting can shift white balance slightly, which matters for items sold by color.
3. Edges and shape are unchanged. Compare silhouettes, especially thin parts such as straps, handles and cables.
4. Glass, chrome and glossy surfaces. Reflections are not shadows, and the model may treat them differently from what you expect.
5. The contact shadow still grounds the product. If you want none, you can follow up with the background remover for a flat white backdrop.

Without a brush the model returns a re-rendered version of the whole picture. When you need to be certain that part of the photo is untouched, paint over only the shadow you want gone and the rest is taken from your original pixels.

Signed-in users run the product scene on GPT Image 2.5, the all-round editing model on Pixmint. Guests use Seedream 5.0 Flash, which is free but can be less exact on difficult photos. If a guest result is not good enough, sign in and run the same photo again.

Shadow Remover costs 15 credits ($0.15) per run, whichever model the preset uses behind the scenes. A failed run is refunded automatically.

Free ways to use it: guests get 3 tool runs per day without an account; those runs use Seedream 5.0 Flash (except document shadow removal, which uses Nano Banana 2 for everyone), are limited to 1024 px and carry a small watermark. Signed in, your 50 first-sign-in credits cover 3 runs and the 20 daily credits cover one run every day, and your runs use the preset's stronger model.

Planned paid plans (not available yet): 500 credits for $4.90, 1,100 credits for $9.90, 2,400 credits for $19.90, or a monthly plan of 1,200 credits for $9.90. Paid plans are planned but not available yet, so nothing can be bought today (see pricing).

Guests get 3 tool runs per day without an account (on the free Seedream 5.0 Flash model, except document shadow removal, which uses Nano Banana 2 for everyone; up to 1024 px, small watermark, personal non-commercial use). Signed in, you get 50 credits at first sign-in and 20 every day.