Google Images is usually showing a copy or preview of an image hosted on another website. That creates two separate tasks: remove the image from the website that controls it, then address its appearance in Google Search.
1. Open the image result and identify the source website
Save the image-result URL and the page URL where the image is published. Search for other copies with Google Lens or another reverse-image tool. Removing one copy does not remove duplicates hosted elsewhere.
2. Ask the source website to remove or change the image
Google’s current help guidance says that, for most images, you need to contact the owner of the website containing the image. Use the site’s contact, privacy, abuse, copyright, account-deletion, or reporting process that actually matches the situation.
3. Use Google’s personal-content removal options when eligible
Google accepts requests for certain categories of private, sensitive, exploitative, or sexual personal content. Eligibility depends on the content and context. A removal from Google Search does not necessarily remove the image from the website or from other search engines.
4. Refresh an outdated result after the source changed
If the website removed the image or replaced the page but Google still shows the old version, use Google’s outdated-content refresh process. This is different from asking Google to remove content that still exists at the source.
5. Check alternate copies and thumbnails
Search your name, usernames, the image filename, and reverse-image matches. Also check social-media reposts, profile aggregators, cached pages, and sites that copied the original article.