Background Remover

Most background removers send your picture to a server. This one doesn't. When you add your first image, the page downloads an AI model and the small program that runs it, and then the model does the work on your own device. Your photo never leaves it.

Two things follow from that. The first photo takes longer, because the model has to arrive first. The page shows the download size in MB while it happens, and your browser keeps the files for later visits. After that, each photo takes a few seconds.

Model quality has two choices. Standard is faster and runs on almost any device. High is better on hair and fine edges, but it needs WebGPU, which not every browser has. The page picks one for your device, and you can change it. The download is about 60 MB for Standard on a processor, about 117 MB for Standard on a GPU, and about 141 MB for High. The Model quality setting shows the size before you start.

Images are processed one at a time to protect your device's memory. On a phone, adding more than five at once asks first, because each one uses a lot of memory and battery. SVG files aren't accepted, since drawings have no photo background to remove.

The New background card decides what the result looks like.

• Transparent keeps nothing behind the subject, ready to place on any design.
• White and Color put the subject on a solid background. Pick a swatch or any color.
• Blur original keeps the original scene, softly out of focus, with a Blur slider.
• Image puts the subject on a picture you choose. Pick Fill to cover the frame, or Fit to show the whole picture.

The Output format is Auto unless you change it. Auto saves a PNG when the background is transparent, because PNG keeps transparency, and a smaller JPG for everything else. Choosing JPG for a transparent result fills the background with white. Choose PNG or WebP to keep it see-through.

Once you have a clean cutout, Crop Image can trim it to a square or a circle. If you only need to change the file type afterward, the Image Converter does that.

Automatic cutouts are good, but hair, fur, glass and busy backgrounds can trip them up. You have three ways to fix it.

Edges has a Smoothness slider from 0 to 10 and a Refine hair edges switch. With refine on, the edge follows fine hair and fur. With it off, you get the model's own softer edge.

Crop to subject trims the empty space around the cutout. Add Padding as a percentage so the subject doesn't touch the edge. Off keeps the original size.

Touch up edges appears on each finished image. It opens a brush with Erase and Restore tools and a size slider. Erase removes a bit of background that was left behind, and Restore paints back a piece of the subject that was removed. Your strokes belong to that image only.

One warning for passport photos: the U.S. State Department wants an original, unedited photo, so a replaced background can be rejected. For that, use the US Passport Photo Maker, which checks your photo and doesn't swap the background.