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Remove the background from a photo

Clear it, paint it one colour, blur it or put your own picture there, behind a person, a pet or anything you tap. It all happens on your device, so your photo is not uploaded.

Drop a photo, or click to choose

JPG, PNG or WebP. It stays on your device.

How it works

  1. Choose a photo. It opens on your device, and the background is taken away as soon as a person is found. For a pet, a product or anything else, choose Tap to pick and tap it.
  2. Pick what goes behind. Keep it clear, choose a colour, blur it, or put a picture of your own there. Edge softness makes the cut around hair and shoulders softer or sharper.
  3. Download. A clear background is saved as a PNG, which keeps transparency. A JPG has no transparency, so it fills the background with white.

Four things to do with the background

Remove

The background becomes transparent, ready to place the person on another picture or a slide.

Colour

A plain white, grey or blue backdrop, for a profile picture or a form photo. Pick any colour you like.

Blur

The person stays sharp and the room behind them goes soft, like a phone’s portrait mode. Set how strong it is.

Picture

Put a photo of your own behind the subject: a beach, a city, a plain wall. Drag it into place, zoom in, soften it for depth, and match its light to the photo.

A person by itself, anything else by a tap

A person is found by a small model made to tell people from what is behind them, as soon as the photo opens. It works best on one or two people facing the camera; fine hair and things a person holds can be cut a little short, which Edge softness helps hide.

For a pet, a product, a plate of food or anything else, choose Tap to pick under Keep and tap it: a second small model marks the whole of the thing you tapped, and the background around it is changed. Tap something else to pick that instead, or choose Add a part to tap more pieces of it. Tapping a part again takes it out.

Once the page has loaded, your browser downloads the models that find the person from this site and the open-source engines that run them from a public CDN, and another model the first time you tap. After that the photo is worked on in your browser: it is never uploaded, and nothing generates or redraws the picture.

Need more than a new background? The full photo editor has the same tool beside crop, text, filters and lights.

Related tools

  • Crop image: Crop to a ratio, a circle, or a freeform box.
  • Blur image: Blur faces, plates or any area with a box or brush, or the whole photo.
  • Compress image: Shrink JPG, PNG or WebP to a target file size.

Guides

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Common questions

How do I remove the background from a photo?
Choose a photo. The background is removed as soon as a person is found; for anything else, choose Tap to pick and tap it. The file is saved as a PNG so the background stays clear. Download it.
Does it work on objects, products or pets?
Yes. When no person is found, the page offers Tap what to keep: tap the pet or the product and the background around it is removed. If the tap misses part of it, choose Add a part and tap that part too.
Is my photo uploaded?
No. The subject is found and the background changed in your browser, so the photo stays on your device. The models themselves are downloaded once from this site.
Can I put a white or blue background behind the person?
Yes. Choose Colour and pick white, light grey, pale blue, blue or any colour of your own. Check the exact colour a form asks for.
Can I put a different photo behind the person?
Yes. Choose Picture and pick a photo from your device. It fills the background; drag the photo to move it and use Zoom to frame it. Picture blur softens it like a portrait lens, and Match light moves its colour and brightness toward the light of your photo. The picture stays on your device too.
Why is the background white in my JPG?
JPG cannot store transparency, so a cleared background is filled with white. Save as PNG or WebP to keep it clear.
The edge around the hair looks rough. Can I fix it?
Raise Edge softness to blend the cut, or lower it for a crisper outline. The models work at a small size, so very fine hair and fur are softened rather than cut strand by strand.
Is it free?
Yes, with no sign-up and no watermark on what you download.