Overview Cleanup.pictures is the AI object remover that popularized the "paint over it, and it's gone" workflow for the general public. Built by ClipDrop — the AR first tooling company that was acquired by Stability AI in early 2023 and then spun back out to Jasper in mid 2024 — Cleanup.pictures made the LaMa inpainting model accessible to anyone with a browser, no signup required for the free tier, no software to install, no learning curve beyond "brush over what you want to remove." Seven plus years after the underlying research landed, it remains the tool most people are thinking of when they say "just erase that person in the background." The pitch is narrow on purpose. Cleanup.pictures does not want to be a full photo editor. It does not generate images, restyle them, or upscale them meaningfully. It removes unwanted objects — people, signs, watermarks, power lines, tourists, ex partners — and reconstructs the pixels underneath. That is the entire product. In a market where nearly every AI image tool has ballooned into a "creative platform" trying to cross sell you a stock library and a video generator, Cleanup.pictures still respects the specialist bet: one job, done well, with an interface a five year old could figure out in under thirty seconds. The 2026 version has evolved technically without breaking that promise. The default inpainting engine is materially better than the original LaMa model — it handles textured backgrounds (grass, brick, water) and reconstructs plausible geometry in scenes with…