Background Remover

Drop, paste or click to choose an image

Remove background

Ready. The model downloads the first time you run it (~26 MB).

Removing a background by hand with selection tools can take a long time, especially around hair or soft edges. This tool does it automatically: choose a photo, and a segmentation model separates the main subject from everything behind it, leaving you with a PNG file whose background is transparent.

Your photo is handled inside the browser and never uploaded. That matters for portraits, family pictures and unreleased product shots. The model behind it is released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.

How to use it

1. Select or drag in a photo with a clear main subject, such as a person, pet or product.
2. On first use, the model downloads, about 26 MB, and is then cached by your browser.
3. Click remove background and compare the original with the cut-out preview.
4. Download the result as a transparent PNG and place it on any new background in your editor.

How it works

The tool runs MODNet (Xenova/modnet) through Transformers.js. MODNet is a matting network originally designed for portraits: for every pixel in a resized copy of your image it estimates how much that pixel belongs to the foreground, from fully opaque to fully transparent. That estimate, called an alpha matte, is scaled back to the original size and applied as the transparency channel of the output image. Because the matte has soft values rather than a hard cut, edges such as hair fade out more naturally than a simple outline would. MODNet is published under the Apache 2.0 license.

Good for

• Preparing a profile picture or avatar with a clean or coloured background.
• Making stickers, collages and school or hobby projects.
• Creating product cut-outs for personal mock-ups and drafts.
• Isolating a subject so it can be placed into a slide or poster.

Limitations

• MODNet was trained mainly on people, so it is most reliable on portraits and half-body shots; products, animals and busy scenes may need touch-ups.
• Fine hair, fur, glass, smoke and subjects that blend into a similar-coloured background may leave halos or missing pieces.
• Very large photos are processed at a reduced internal resolution, and results are generally less refined than professional cloud tools; desktop Chrome or Edge works best.

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