Image Background Remover
Choose the subject you want to keep and remove everything else. Paint over the subject, mark a little of the background, and download a transparent PNG. It all happens on your device.
Auto remove works best when the background is fairly plain and the subject is near the middle. Afterwards, fix any mistakes with the brushes below.
Paint green on any part of the subject that was lost, and red on any background that was kept. Keep the brush inside the area you mean: the circle shows its size, and paint that spills onto the wrong side will be treated as that side. After Auto remove, the green and red washes show what the tool decided. Start with a small brush near the edges.
Click the background you want to remove. Click again on other areas to remove more. Increase Tolerance to remove similar shades. This works best for plain or studio backgrounds.
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Free Online Image Background Remover
Removing the background from a photo lets you place the subject on a plain color, a new scene, a product page or a presentation slide. This background remover works in two steps. Auto remove makes a first cutout by itself, and you stay in control: paint green over anything that should stay and red over anything that should go, and the tool redraws the edge. Your picture is processed in your browser and is never uploaded to a server.
How to Remove a Background
- Drop an image onto the box or click it to choose a file. The background is removed automatically. You can also press Auto remove background at any time.
- Look at the Result. The green and red washes on Your image show what was kept and what was removed.
- If part of the subject is missing, choose the Keep (green) brush and paint over it. If background is left behind, choose Remove (red) and paint over it. Use a small brush near edges. The circle on the cursor shows the brush size.
- Use Undo or the Eraser to fix a mistake, and Clear Marks to start over.
- Fine-tune with Edge softness and Edge shift, choose a background, and press Download PNG.
Three Ways to Remove a Background
| Mode | How it works | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Auto remove | Looks at the colors along the edges of the picture to learn what the background is, then treats what is clearly different in the middle as the subject and cuts along the edges between them. | Photos with a fairly plain or smooth background and a subject near the middle, such as products, portraits and clothing. |
| Mark the subject | You paint the part to keep and the part to remove. The tool follows the color edges between your marks. | Most photos, including busy backgrounds, as long as the subject differs in color from what surrounds it. |
| Click the background color | You click the background and the tool removes connected areas of a similar color, controlled by the tolerance slider. | Plain, white or studio backgrounds, product shots and logos. |
Tips for a Clean Cutout
- Check the washes. Green marks what is kept and red what is removed. Paint the right color over any wrong area.
- Mark close to the edge. Strokes near the boundary teach the tool where the subject ends.
- Keep the brush on the right side. If a green stroke spills onto the background, the tool treats that background as part of the subject.
- Leave the sliders near their defaults. A little edge softness (1 or 2) looks natural. High softness leaves a foggy fringe of the old background.
- Use a smaller brush for thin parts such as hair, straps, stems and fingers.
- Mark every different background area. If the background has a wall and a floor, paint on both.
- Turn off “Treat the image border as background” when the subject touches the edge of the picture.
- Use Edge shift to remove a thin halo of the old background (move it down) or to recover lost edge detail (move it up).
- Start from a good photo. Clear lighting and contrast between subject and background give the best result.
Download Options
The download is a PNG file, which supports transparency. Choose Transparent to place the subject on anything later, or pick a white, black or custom color for a ready-made background. Crop to the subject trims the empty space around it. Images larger than 3,600 pixels on the longest side are reduced to that size.
What This Tool Cannot Do
This tool does not use artificial intelligence. Auto remove and the brushes follow color edges, so they work best when the subject and background differ in color. Auto remove can miss when the background is busy, when the subject has a similar color to the background, or when the subject is not near the middle. It can struggle with soft, semi-transparent details such as wispy hair, fur, smoke or glass, and with subjects that are the same color as the background. In those cases, add more marks or use the edge sliders, and accept that very fine detail may need manual editing in a photo editor.
Privacy
Your image is opened and processed in your browser with your own device’s processor. It is not uploaded, stored or shared, and it disappears when you close or reload the page.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Is the background remover free?
Yes. It is free, needs no sign-up and adds no watermark to your image.
Is my image uploaded to a server?
No. The image stays in your browser. All processing is done on your own device.
Does it remove the background automatically?
Yes. When you open an image, Auto remove makes a first cutout. You can then correct it with the green and red brushes. You can turn off the automatic step with the checkbox if you prefer to mark the subject yourself.
Why is some of the old background still showing?
Either Auto remove missed it, or a green stroke covered it, or Edge softness is set high. Paint red over the leftover background, keep the brush on that area, and keep Edge softness at 1 or 2.
Why is part of my subject cut off or part of the background left?
The tool follows color edges. Add a green stroke on the missing part of the subject or a red stroke on the leftover background, close to the wrong edge, and it will correct itself.
What file formats can I upload and download?
You can open JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF and BMP images. The result is downloaded as a PNG so that transparency is kept.
Can I use it on my phone?
Yes. You can paint with your finger. Pinch zoom is not available inside the editor, so use a smaller brush for fine edges.
How do I keep the transparent background?
Leave the Background option on Transparent and download the PNG. Most websites, presentation programs and design tools show the empty area as see-through.