Can Lightroom remove a logo watermark I accidentally applied to my photos?

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I was organizing photos in Lightroom 4 and moved them into a folder using Lightroom. Afterward I noticed every photo has my logo on it, including images that aren’t mine. Is there a way to undo this or remove the logo watermark?

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Moving should not have been able to take any action like adding a logo. Export (and reimport) has this ability.

Applying a watermark is available only when doing Export, Print, Web or Slideshow creation. Could you have possibly Exported, then Imported, rather than moved?

Assuming you didn't Export and Import, select an image with the logo, go to Develop module and look at the History on the left hand side. You should be able to 'go back' to a time when the image did not have the logo, though frankly, applying a logo in Develop is not a feature of Lightroom.

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In Lightroom, simply moving files to another folder does not add a logo or watermark. Watermarks are normally applied during Export, Print, Web, or Slideshow output. So the most likely cause is that the photos were exported with a watermark and then possibly re-imported.

If that’s what happened, Lightroom usually can’t remove the watermark from those exported image files because it has been baked into the exported copy. You would need to go back to the original, unwatermarked files in your catalog and export them again without the watermark option enabled.

If the logo somehow appears as an edit on the image you’re viewing, select a photo in the Develop module and check the History panel on the left. If there is an earlier state before the change, you may be able to revert to it. But Lightroom does not normally add logos as a Develop adjustment.

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