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Remove the background from an image

Drop a photo and the subject is cut out — a person, a pet, a product — at the full resolution of your picture, with hair and edges kept. Save it transparent or on a new color. The photo never leaves your device.

I want Remove the background

Settings appear once you add an image.

Find the subject

Any photo finds the subject wherever it is. Plain background removes one flat color and is instant, which suits signatures and logos.

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Raise it to clear a faint halo around the subject. Lower it for fine hair and fur.

The background is

Auto reads the color from the border of the picture, which is right nearly every time.

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Raise it if patches of background are left behind. Lower it if parts of the subject disappear.

New background
Save as

PNG and WebP keep transparency. JPG can’t, so it gets the new background, or white.

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Crop to the subject Cut away the empty space once the background is gone.

Done on your device No upload, no queue, no sign-up.

Bytes sent anywhere: 0 B

For a product shot for a store, a portrait for a profile or an ID-style photo, a pet for a card, a signature to paste into a document, or a cut-out for a slide.

Works offline after you’ve used it once.

How to use it

Your picture goes into this browser tab, has its plain backdrop made transparent on your device, and comes back as a PNG. 0 bytes uploaded

  1. Add your files

    Drop one photo or a whole batch. The cutout model starts downloading straight away the first time (about 88 MB, then it is kept for offline use).

  2. Check the settings

    Leave Any photo selected, or choose Plain background for a signature or logo on white. Pick a new background: transparent, white or a color.

  3. Save the result

    Press Remove the background. Nudge Edge if you see a faint halo, and save as PNG or WebP to keep the transparency.

Why it doesn’t upload

The photos people cut out are portraits, children, pets and unreleased products — exactly the pictures not to hand to a stranger’s server. The model runs in this tab, on your graphics card where the browser allows it, so the photo is never uploaded. Only the model itself is downloaded, once.

How to check for yourself

Worth knowing

  • The first use downloads the cutout model, about 88 MB on a graphics card (176 MB where the browser has no WebGPU and it runs on the processor). It is cached, so after that it starts instantly and works offline.
  • With WebGPU, a photo takes about a second. Without it, the model runs on the processor and takes several seconds per photo, more on a phone.
  • It finds one main subject. A busy scene with several possible subjects, or a subject the same color as what is behind it, gives a less certain edge.
  • Hair and fur are the hardest part of any cutout. They are refined against the photo itself, but very fine, flyaway strands can be softened or lost.
  • Pictures larger than 24 megapixels are cut out at 24 megapixels, still more than any screen or print needs.
  • JPG has no transparency, so a JPG result always gets a solid background.

Questions

How do I remove the background from a photo?

Drop the photo here and press Remove the background. The subject is found by a segmentation model running in this tab, the edge is refined against your photo at full resolution, and you save it as a transparent PNG — or on white or any color. Nothing is uploaded and there is no watermark.

How does it know what the subject is?

A neural network trained on cutouts (ORMBG, an open model under the Apache 2.0 license) marks which pixels belong to the main subject. Its answer is then sharpened against the photograph itself with a guided filter, which is what keeps hair and fine edges instead of a blurry halo.

How do I make a white background transparent, or remove it from a signature?

Choose Plain background. It removes one flat color by its value — instant, with no download — which is ideal for a signature on white paper, a logo or a scan. Save as PNG to paste it into a document; a form that insists on JPG will put a white background back.

There is a faint halo around the edge. How do I fix it?

Raise Edge, which makes the boundary firmer and clears a faint fringe. Lower it for fine hair or fur, where a little softness is what makes the cutout look real.

Is the cutout full resolution?

Yes. The model decides what the subject is at 1024 × 1024, and the edge is then worked out at your photo’s own size, up to 24 megapixels — not a small preview scaled up.

Is my photo uploaded?

No. The model is downloaded to your browser once and runs in this tab. The network log under the tool shows what the page downloads and that nothing of your photo is sent.

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Next steps

Often used before or after Remove Image Background. These run on your device too.