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Image background remover
Click the background color in a photo and this free background remover erases every matching pixel, then downloads a transparent PNG. It runs in this browser — no upload, no account, no watermark.
PNG, JPG or WebP up to 16 megapixels. Processed in your browser; nothing is uploaded. Or drag a file onto this box.
How to make a transparent PNG
- Choose a PNG, JPG or WebP up to 16 megapixels.
- Click the background in the photo — the top-left corner is preselected for you, which is right for most flat scenes.
- Adjust the tolerance until only the backdrop disappears in the live preview.
- Download the full-resolution transparent PNG.
The preview and the download use the same key color and tolerance, so what you see is exactly what you get.
Flat background or busy background?
Clean cuts
Products on white, logos on solid color, scanned line art, screenshots and stickers. The flatter the backdrop, the cleaner the cut.
Hard cases
Gradients, cast shadows, hair, fur, glass and motion blur leave a rim, because blend pixels are part background and part subject. Lower tolerance keeps more of the subject; a soft-edge selection in a photo editor handles the rest.
Same-color overlap
Keying is global: every pixel within tolerance goes transparent, including matching colors inside the subject. When subject and backdrop share a color, use a brush-based editor instead.
Transparent PNG or WebP?
PNG is the universal choice: every editor, chat and browser keeps its transparency. WebP stores transparency too, usually much smaller, but a few older tools still refuse it. If you need the smaller file, download the PNG here and re-encode it as WebP with our image converter — transparency survives the trip.
Working with an animation instead? Remove the background from a GIF, or build a GIF from photos first.
Background remover questions
Is this a one-click AI background remover?
No, and the difference matters. This tool keys out one background color you click, with a tolerance you control, so the cutout is predictable and fully reversible — no sign-in, no upload, and no surprise about what the model decided to keep. It is the right tool for flat or near-flat backgrounds: products on white, logos, screenshots, stickers. Photos with busy, gradient or textured backdrops need a subject-selection editor, and we would rather say so than ship a one-click guess.
Is it free? Do you upload my photo?
Free, and no. The photo is decoded and filtered pixel by pixel inside this browser tab using the same canvas pipeline as our GIF background remover, so the file never leaves your device. There is no account, no credit and no watermark.
How do I get a clean edge around hair or fur?
Color keying gives hard edges: pixels either match the background or they do not, and blend pixels between subject and backdrop keep a rim of it. Lower the tolerance so fewer blended pixels are removed, or cut the subject out in a photo editor with soft-edge selection and export from there. This is a property of color-keyed cutouts, not of this tool specifically.
What if my subject contains the background color?
Those pixels are removed too — keying is global, not brush-like. A white shirt against a white wall disappears at the same tolerance as the wall. Click a distant background corner instead of a shadowed one, and keep the tolerance as low as the scene allows. For overlaps like that, an editor with a brush-based mask is the better tool.
Which formats work here, and what do I get?
Choose a PNG, JPG or WebP up to 16 megapixels. The download is always a PNG, because PNG keeps per-pixel transparency; JPEG cannot store alpha at all. If you need the cutout smaller for the web, our image converter can re-encode it as a WebP with transparency kept.
Can I remove the background from an animated GIF instead?
Yes — that is our dedicated GIF background remover, which keys every frame of the animation with the same color and tolerance and re-encodes a transparent GIF. This page handles still images only.