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    Remove shadow in the online photo editor

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    How to use the service “Remove shadow”

    The RetouchMe application is available on iOS and Android platforms. You can download it from the Apple App Store, Google Play or Amazon App Store.

    1. Launch or download the RetouchMe application.
    2. Select a photo from your gallery that you want to use the “Remove shadow” service on.
    3. Choose the category “Body”.
    4. In this category, select the desired service “Remove shadow”.
    5. Price of the “Remove shadow” service: 15 ⭐.
    6. After selecting the services you want to use for the photo, click on the "Proceed" button.
    7. Review your order once again and click "Send to designer."

    Pros and cons of "Remove shadow" service in photo editor

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    Difficulty of use
    Simple
    RetouchMe allows you to press one or multiple buttons to achieve great results with the "Remove shadow" service.
    Medium
    Free Photo editor requires good skills to achieve the expected results with the "Remove shadow" service.
    Medium
    Online Photo Editor requires good skills to achieve the expected results with the "Remove shadow" service.
    Simple
    AI Photo Editor allows you to press one or multiple buttons to achieve great results with the "Remove shadow" service.
    Retouching quality
    Excellent
    RetouchMe allows you to achieve excellent retouching results with the "Remove shadow" service.
    Good
    Free Photo editor allows you to achieve good retouching results with the "Remove shadow" service.
    Good
    Online Photo Editor allows you to achieve good retouching results with the "Remove shadow" service.
    Bad
    AI Photo Editor does not allow you to achieve good retouching results with the "Remove shadow" service.
    Time to edit
    Fast
    RetouchMe allows you to spend 3-5 minutes on editing for the "Remove shadow" service.
    Medium
    Free Photo editor allows you to spend 5-10 minutes on editing for the "Remove shadow" service.
    Medium
    Online Photo Editor allows you to spend 5-10 minutes on editing for the "Remove shadow" service.
    Fast
    AI Photo Editor allows you to spend 3-5 minutes on editing for the "Remove shadow" service.
    Naturalness
    Excellent
    RetouchMe allows you to achieve a fully aesthetic result with the "Remove shadow" service.
    Good
    Free Photo editor allows you to achieve a naturally acceptable result with the "Remove shadow" service.
    Good
    Online Photo Editor allows you to achieve a naturally acceptable result with the "Remove shadow" service.
    Bad
    AI Photo Editor does not allow you to achieve a naturally acceptable result with the "Remove shadow" service.

    When we take a photo, we usually try to capture interesting moments in our lives. Most of the time this happens on an intuitive level, and at such moments we rarely think about what will appear in the picture. If you are not a professional photographer such things as exposure along with most of the settings do not matter much to you, but it can make a big difference to the result. We took a good photo and found out that a shadow is falling on us because we have wrongly exposed the frame. After that, you can try to do a similar shot with the right settings, but we are unlikely to be able to capture that very moment, it will be a completely different shot no matter how hard we try. It is said not in vain that photos steal a part of the soul and fix it at the moment, so you can not recover it. Face expression, mood, the posture, you can continue the list of features that a particular photo may not recover with another shot. Then how do you save a good photo captured with bad settings?

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    How to get rid of shadow in a picture

    Shadows could be of various natures, it could be a foreground or a background shadow. Depending on what shadow we deal with we choose different methods of editing the image. If the shadow lays off the main subject and we do not want to see it anymore, then we need to remove the background shadow from the photo. If the subject occurs in the shadow itself caused by bad exposure settings then it is foreground shadow editing. As we get to know what we are dealing with, it is time to choose the correct photo editor to remove shadows from the image.

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    How to edit shadows out of photos with Adobe Photoshop

    Photoshop is probably one of the most powerful photo editing programs. Here we can find a myriad of tools to bring any photo to the right condition. In the case of working with the background shadow, we may need to use a content-aware filter. This filter allows generating of complex background objects taken from the original data within the photo. This makes it easier to edit materials containing compounded structures overlapping the foreground, such as railings for instance. You can also try to do it manually with the healing brush and patch tool, but usually, these tools are required for additional corrections of image areas where the content-aware filter can not cope. On the other hand, working with the shadows lying on the main subject is not the less difficult. We have to precisely expose the lack of light on the complex surface such as skin and clothing. And if some background details could be neglected in quality, this is not the case when we work with the subject and foreground.

    Working with Photoshop requires quite a serious skill in handling the program. You need to understand how all these tools work and interact with each other on an intuitive level. This is more of a job for professional editors or advanced users who prefer to do everything themselves manually. For everyone else, there are countless mobile applications that can do the job. Let us take a closer look at this option.

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    App to remove shadows

    When we open the App Store looking for a photo editor, we immediately encounter a problem - there are way too many options to choose from. This is a great way to clutter up your phone's memory and eventually find an app that does the job through trial and error. However, if it worked for one of your photos and did remove the shadow from the background, it might do a much worse job with the shadow on the main subject, because you need a more comprehensive approach there. And that is where the whole point of such applications comes in, they are based on automated algorithms that are very limited in performance when it comes to their flexibility and application to different photo cases. Here is where the RetouchMe service comes with the solution.

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    RetouchMe – remove shadow from photo app

    Unlike the other apps, RetouchMe does not use any automatics. All the editing is done by a team of professional photo designers manually. The app itself provides you with an interface where you place the order and it goes right to the actual editor. The interface of the app is very simple and intuitive so that users of any age can simply use it. All you need to do is to upload your photo to the app or select it from your storage, then choose the right option and send the photo for processing. On our end, there is a team of professional Photoshop editors who take your photo, look at the task and do the job online in a matter of minutes. We do everything manually to provide the best quality results for our customers. With the RetouchMe app, you simply get the professional editor’s power and photo assistant in your pocket. Remove shadow from picture online with the RetouchMe app, and here is a step-by-step guide on how to use it.

    Updated: Dec 7, 2025
    Created: Oct 24, 2018
    Time to read: 4 min
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    Co-founder of RetouchMe. In addition to business, he is passionate about travel photography and videography. His photos can be viewed on Instagram (over 1 million followers), and his films can be found on his YouTube channel.
    Moreover, his profile is featured on the most popular and authoritative resource in the film industry — IMDb. He has received 51 international awards and 18 nominations at film festivals worldwide.

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    What app can I use to remove a shadow in a photo?
    No need for photo retouching skills anymore. Upload your picture in the RetouchMe App and get an improved version from our highly experienced team of photoshop designers.
    How can I remove a shadow in a photo?
    You should select a photo in RetouchMe App from your gallery, find and select the remove a shadow retouch service, send us an order, and in 10-15 minutes you will receive your retouched photo back in the application.
    Why does RetouchMe app have a better quality of retouch to take shadow off a body in a photo?
    Every time your photos are processed by real people - an expert team of graphic designers using Photoshop. Professional processing gives you a much higher quality retouching, which can not be achieved in other automatic photo editors.
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