Remove the background from an image – free, full resolution

Product shots, profile pictures, slides, posters and memes often need just the subject, not what was behind it. The tool finds the main subject of your photo (a person, product, pet or car) and turns everything else transparent.

Your image is never uploaded: the cut-out model downloads once and then runs in your browser. No sign-up, and no watermark on the result. Many similar services give you a small preview for free and charge for the full-size file; here the download is as large as the photo you started with.

Drop several images at once and they are processed one after another with the same settings; at the end you can download them all in a single ZIP file.

• Fast (U²-Netp, default): just 4.6 MB and quick even on phones and older computers. Good for objects, products, pets and cars; edges can be rougher on fine detail, which the touch-up brushes fix.
• Portrait (MODNet): a model of about 26 MB trained on people, for headshots and profile pictures; it gives hair a softer edge.
• Detailed (BiRefNet, experimental): the most precise edges on hair and fur, but it downloads about 115 MB the first time and only starts on stronger graphics cards (WebGPU). If your device can't run it, the tool switches to the fast model by itself and tells you so.

Your browser keeps every model after the first download, so next time it starts straight away.

An automatic cut-out is rarely perfect everywhere. The Touch up row has three brushes; while you use them the photo is shown in its original colours and the part that will be removed gets a red overlay.

• Restore: paint over anything the model wrongly removed, such as a hand or part of a product.
• Erase: paint over leftovers from the background.
• Hair & edges: brush along hair, fur or a see-through edge. The tool recalculates transparency from the nearby sure foreground and background colours, so stray hairs fade naturally instead of being chopped off.

The brush size is adjustable, every stroke can be undone, and you can zoom to 2× or 4× for fine work.

Three sliders shape the outline: Edge hardness (soft blend or crisp cut), Shift edge (tighter or looser cut-out) and Remove colour fringe. The last one removes the old background colour from semi-transparent edges, so hair shot against a green wall won't look green on a new white background.

For the background you can choose transparent, white, any colour, a blurred copy of the original photo, or an image of your own. Add a ground shadow or a drop shadow, and use Fit to subject to frame the picture around the subject with adjustable padding and aspect ratio (1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 16:9).

• Online shops and marketplaces: consistent product photos on white; the product photo page has ready-made settings with square framing and a ground shadow.
• Profile pictures and team pages: cut out the person and give everyone the same coloured or blurred background; see the portrait page.
• Slides, posters and invitations: a transparent PNG sits on any slide or design without a white box around it.
• Stickers, T-shirts and mugs: most print shops want a transparent PNG at high resolution, which is why the cut-out is made at the original size.
• Montages and memes: put the subject on a new backdrop with the change background page.

Every variant uses the same model and brushes; they simply start with different settings.

You get the best results when the subject stands out clearly from the background: a different colour or brightness, and an edge that isn't blurred. It is harder when subject and background have very similar colours, when the photo is shaky, or with transparent objects (glass, veils). The Hair & edges, Restore and Erase brushes help in those cases.

Choose PNG for a transparent background, because JPG cannot store transparency (the tool saves PNG automatically in that case). WebP gives smaller files for websites. For signatures or logos on a plain background, the dedicated signature and logo tools use a more precise method.