Image tool

Background Remover

Cut a subject out of a photo and download it with a transparent background.

Your image stays on this device. The cutout model runs in this browser, so nothing is uploaded and there is no retention window, because there is nothing to retain.

You download about 4.5 MB of model the first time. Your browser caches it, so later visits start immediately.

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What this gives you, and what it costs

This uses U²-Net Lite, about 4.5 MB. The server version used the full ISNet model at 170 MB: sharper, and far too large to send to a phone.

So: clean edges on people, products and anything with a reasonably distinct background. Weaker on hair, fur, thin straps and busy backgrounds. A bottle on a table will match the server. A cat on a patterned rug will not.

The trade is worth making because a cutout that never leaves your device cannot be retained, logged, or used for something you did not intend.

What separates a clean cutout from a ragged one

The model works from contrast between subject and background, so the photograph matters more than any setting you can change afterwards. A subject that is clearly separated from what is behind it will cut cleanly almost every time; a subject that shares colour or brightness with the background will not, regardless of what you do next.

Highest success rates: a person against a plain wall, a product on a white or seamless backdrop, a single object on a table with reasonable light. Hair, fur, thin straps, bicycle spokes, and glass are where edges degrade, because the boundary is genuinely ambiguous rather than merely difficult, and the model has to guess.

If the first attempt is ragged, the fastest fix is usually a better photograph rather than a retry. More even lighting, a background that differs in tone from the subject, and a subject that fills more of the frame all help more than any post-processing step.

A cutout does not replace a proper mask for print work. For a catalogue or anything destined for a large format, check the edge at 100% zoom before you commit, because a soft edge that looks fine in a thumbnail is visible on a printed page.

Further reading: Read the full guide: Background Remover

Common questions

Are my images uploaded?

No. The removal runs in this browser tab. The first visit downloads the model from this site, and after that the work happens on your machine. The photo itself is never sent anywhere.

How accurate is it?

It is good when the subject is clearly separate from its surroundings: a person against a plain wall, a product on a clean surface, a pet in grass. It struggles where a person would also hesitate, which is mainly thin or wispy detail such as hair, fur, glasses frames and bicycle spokes.

What are the two brushes for?

The first pass already removes most backgrounds, and the brushes are for the places it got wrong. The smaller brush puts back anything that was taken away that should have stayed, such as a hand or a shoe. Most images need nothing, but a portrait with flyaway hair usually needs a few careful strokes.

Will it flatten an image that is already transparent?

No. Where the image already has transparency, that is treated as the background and left alone, so working on a cut-out does not fill it in.

What format do I get?

A PNG, because PNG is the format that can store transparency. A JPEG cannot, so saving this as a JPEG would put a solid block where the background used to be.