Remove Background from Image

To remove background from image files, add them to the box above. The AI finds the subject, cuts it out at full resolution and shows you the result on a see-through background, ready to download, put on a new colour or touch up with a brush. It works on people, hair, pets, products, cars, food and graphics.

This background remover uses BiRefNet, one of the most accurate open AI models for cutting out subjects, and then cleans every edge so hair and fur keep their natural look without a coloured fringe. There is no watermark, no low-resolution preview and no sign-up.

Most free tools use small, fast models that leave a halo round hair or eat into the edges of a product. This page runs BiRefNet, a large model built for high-resolution cut-outs, on our server, so the result does not depend on how powerful your phone or laptop is. Hair & fur mode uses a version of the model trained for soft, see-through detail such as loose hair, fur and veils.

After the AI, two more steps run at full resolution. The edge is aligned with the real edges in your photo, so it stays sharp when the picture is large, and the colour of the old background is taken out of semi-transparent pixels, which removes the green, white or grey fringe you often see round hair. The result is a clean cut-out you can put on any background.

When you only need the subject, keep Background on Transparent and download PNG. You get a transparent PNG at the full size of your photo, which you can drop into Canva, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Figma or a website, on top of anything. WebP keeps transparency too and is much smaller, which helps on websites.

JPG cannot store transparency, so choosing JPG fills the background with white. If an app shows a black or checked background, it simply means the background really is see-through.

Marketplaces such as Amazon, Shopify, eBay and Etsy want product photos on pure white, and passport and visa photos need a plain light background. To add white background, choose Colour and white, or pick the Product size, which centres the item on a 2000 by 2000 white square with a little space around it.

For ID photos choose Passport (35 by 45 mm) or 2 by 2 inch; the person is placed at the bottom of the frame with room above the head. Always check the exact rules of the office you are applying to, as some ask for a light grey or off-white background instead.

A logo on a plain background does not need AI at all. Choose Signature & logo mode, and the background colour is found automatically and removed by colour, which gives perfectly crisp edges and even clears the inside of letters such as o, a and e. Use the Tolerance slider if a light shadow or texture remains. You can remove background from logo files this way without anything leaving your browser.

For a logo that sits on a photo, use Best quality instead. Then add an outline in Effects to turn it into a sticker, or download it on a transparent background for your website or social media.

Online forms, contracts and email footers often need a signature on a transparent background. Sign on plain white paper with a dark pen, take a photo in good light and choose Signature & logo mode. To remove background from signature photos cleanly, the paper colour is taken out of every pen stroke, so the ink keeps a natural look instead of a grey edge.

Choose Ink colour Black or Blue to make a faint signature bold and even, crop to the subject in Size, and download PNG. Signature & logo mode runs entirely in your browser, so your signature is never uploaded.

On an iPhone or Android phone, open this page in Safari or Chrome and tap Select images. iPhone HEIC photos work as they are. The AI runs on our server, so phones get the same quality as computers and the battery is spared. To remove background from photo files of people, keep Best quality, or choose Hair & fur for portraits with loose hair.

When it is done, tap Download, or tap Copy to paste the cut-out straight into another app. Use Touch up and your finger to erase anything left behind or restore a part the AI missed.

Icons, clip art and illustrations often come with a white or coloured box around them. To make background transparent, add the picture and choose Signature & logo mode for flat colours, or Best quality for anything with shading, then keep Background on Transparent.

A see-through background lets the picture sit naturally on any slide, web page or design. Add a soft shadow in Effects to make it look placed rather than pasted.

Add up to 30 pictures at once. They are processed one after another for the best quality, and each card shows how many are ahead and roughly how long is left. The background, effects, size and format you choose apply to every picture, so a product catalogue comes out consistent.

When they are ready, All (ZIP) saves every picture in one file. This makes the page a practical bulk background remover for online shops, real estate photos and team headshots, with no credits to buy.

Many sites let you remove bg for free only at a small preview size and charge for the full picture. Here you always get full resolution, up to about 12 megapixels, which covers photos from almost every phone. Larger photos are reduced to that size before processing and the page tells you when that happens.

There is no watermark and no account, and the picture is yours to use for any purpose, personal or commercial.

No AI is perfect on every photo. Open Touch up to fix the rare mistake: Erase removes a leftover patch of background, Restore paints back a part that was cut away, with the original pixels. Change the brush size and edge softness, zoom to 200% or 400% for fine detail, and turn on Show the removed part faintly to see exactly where you are painting.

Undo and Redo work with Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y, and [ and ] change the brush size. Your touch-ups are kept for each picture when you switch between them.

Backgrounds can be transparent, any colour, a photo of your own or a blur of the original scene, which keeps the setting but makes the subject stand out like a portrait camera. A soft or strong shadow grounds the subject on a new background, and an outline in any colour makes stickers and YouTube thumbnails pop.

Size presets crop and centre the subject for you: Crop to subject, Square, Product (2000 by 2000), Passport, 2 by 2 inch, Instagram, Instagram portrait, Story, YouTube, or any custom size, with adjustable space around.

To make the best cut-out the AI runs on our server, so your picture is uploaded over an encrypted connection. It is used only to make your result and is deleted as soon as the result reaches your browser; if you close the page before that, it is deleted automatically within 20 minutes. Nothing is stored, shared or used to train AI.

Everything after the cut-out happens in your browser: backgrounds, touch-ups, sizes and downloads. Signature & logo mode does not upload anything at all. It is a private way to remove background from pictures of yourself, your family or your documents.

When you add a picture, it is sent over an encrypted connection to a background removal service on our server. The picture is turned upright, scaled to 1024 by 1024 pixels for the AI, and BiRefNet, a bilateral reference network designed for high-resolution dichotomous segmentation, predicts for every pixel how much it belongs to the subject. That prediction becomes the transparency of the result.

The transparency is then enlarged back to your photo's full size and aligned with its edges, and the colours of semi-transparent pixels are estimated without the old background. Your browser receives the cut-out, the colours and the transparency separately, so it can add backgrounds, shadows and touch-ups at full quality without asking the server again. Pictures are processed one at a time, which is why there can be a short wait when many people use the tool.

Everything works with a keyboard as well as a mouse or finger. Press Tab to move between controls and Space or Enter to choose. Ctrl+V pastes a picture, Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y undo and redo touch-ups, and [ and ] change the brush size.

Screen readers announce when pictures are added and when each one is ready, the tabs and choices have clear names, and the before and after divider can be moved with the arrow keys.

Use the largest photo you have. More pixels give the AI more detail around hair and edges.

A clear difference between subject and background helps: a dark coat on a dark sofa is hard for any AI.

For portraits with loose or curly hair, try Hair & fur; for products with hard edges, Best quality is usually crisper.

Photograph signatures and logos flat, in even light, without shadows across the paper.

After a new background, check the edges with Compare with original and fix any spot in Touch up.