How to remove the background from a photo and save a transparent PNG

Drop your photo into Remove background. If there is a person in it, the background is taken away as soon as they are found; for anything else, choose Tap to pick and tap it. Download, and the file is a PNG with a transparent background.

Steps

1. Open Remove background and choose a photo. JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP and AVIF files open.
2. Wait a moment while the person is found on your device. The first time, the page downloads the models it needs from this site, with a progress bar.
3. If the subject is not a person, or no one was found, choose Tap to pick under Keep and tap the thing you want to keep: a pet, a product, a plate of food.
4. If part of it was missed, choose Add a part and tap the missing piece. Tapping a part again takes it out. New pick starts over with a single tap.
5. Under Background, keep Remove for a clear background, or choose Colour, Blur or Picture.
6. Move Edge softness up to blend the cut around hair, or down for a crisper outline.
7. Download. A cleared background saves as PNG, which keeps transparency.

The four background choices

Off puts the original background back.

People are found by themselves, everything else by a tap

The page finds people on its own, and works best on one or two people facing the camera. It does not look for objects by itself. A product, a pet or a cup only gets cut out when you tap it, and a second model then marks the whole of the thing under your tap.

For multi-part objects, tap the main part first, then use Add a part for the rest: a cup and its saucer, a dog and its lead, a shoe and its laces.

Why the JPG came out with white

A JPG cannot store transparency. If you save a cleared background as JPG, the clear part is filled with white. Keep PNG (the default on this page) or WebP when you need the background to stay clear. If you want white on purpose, choose Colour and White so you see it before saving.

Getting clean edges

The models work at a small size and are scaled up to your photo, so fine detail has limits:

• Hair and fur come out softened rather than cut strand by strand. A little more Edge softness hides most of it.
• Things a person holds can be cut a little short. Tap them with Tap to pick and Add a part if they matter.
• Low contrast between subject and background (a white shirt on a white wall) is the hardest case. A photo with a different-coloured background behind the subject cuts more cleanly.
• Small subjects in a wide shot cut better after you crop closer with the Crop tool in the same editor.

What to do with the cut-out

• Make it a chat sticker with an outline: the sticker maker does the cut and the 512 × 512 file in one step.
• Put a person on another photo: open that photo in the photo editor, add the picture with the person under Pictures and choose Make it a sticker, which cuts them out and outlines them.
• Get a product shot ready for a listing: see product photos with a white background.

Questions

Is it free to remove a background here?

Yes. There is no sign-up and no limit, and the PNG you download has no watermark.

Does my photo get uploaded to remove the background?

No. The subject is found and the background changed in your browser. Only the models are downloaded, once, from this site.

Can it remove the background from a logo or a drawing?

Try Tap to pick and tap the logo. It marks the thing under your tap, so a logo with a clear shape on a plain background is the easiest case. If it misses letters, use Add a part for each one.

Is anything in the photo redrawn?

No. The page decides which pixels belong to the subject and changes only the ones behind it. Nothing is generated.