Remove the background of a photo

An AI model finds the person or the object in your photo and takes away what is behind it — right in your browser, without uploading the photo. Keep it transparent, put a plain colour behind, or blur the original background like a portrait camera.

How it works

1. Open a photo. People, pets, products and objects with a clear outline work best.
2. Remove background. The first time, the AI is set up in your browser; after that it starts at once, even offline.
3. Choose what goes behind: transparent, a colour (white, light grey, light blue or any colour) or the photo blurred, with the amount of blur you like.
4. Fix the edges. “Edge softness” and “Keep less ↔ keep more” tune the outline; the Erase and Restore brushes fix any spot by hand.
5. Export as PNG or WebP to keep the transparency, or as JPG with the colour behind.

Good to know

• The edge follows the photo's own outlines, so hair and fine edges stay soft instead of cut out.
• Everything stays editable: change the background colour or the blur later, or undo the removal in one step.
• For passport and ID photos, the Passport tool removes the background and puts the colour the rules ask for behind you automatically.
• To take an object out of a photo (a person in the background, a sign, a wire), use Remove Object instead: paint over it and it is filled in.

What people use it for

• Product photos on plain white for an online shop or a marketplace listing.
• A profile picture with a clean colour behind you, for work or social media.
• Cut-outs with a transparent background for slides, posters, stickers and school projects.
• A portrait with the background softly blurred, as if taken with a large-aperture camera.