Remove or replace an image background, without uploading the photo
Cut the background out to transparency, swap it for a colour or another picture, or clean a near-white studio shot up to pure white. Your image is decoded and edited by your own browser, so the photo itself is never sent anywhere.
- Your image never leaves your browser
- Free, no account
- JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, GIF, BMP, SVG, AVIF, HEIC
- Up to 100 MB per file
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Accepted: JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, GIF, BMP, SVG, AVIF, HEIC · Single image only
Your photo stays on this device.
The image is decoded and edited by your browser. There is no upload, no server copy and nothing to delete afterwards.
Pick it now and the image arrives already processed that way. You can still change any of it once the photo is open.
Replacing the background with another picture needs a second file, so that one is chosen after your photo is open.
How to change an image background
Drop your photo in
It decodes on your device. Fast detection runs straight away, so you see a first cutout before you have touched a single control.
Say what the background should become
Remove it, fill it with a colour, drop another picture behind the subject, or force a near-white studio backdrop to pure white. Switch to AI when the background is not one flat colour.
Tidy the edges and download
Nudge the tolerance, or brush the last few pixels away by hand. PNG and WebP keep transparency; JPEG flattens it, so it is only offered when the background is being filled.
Which background to use
Pure white (#FFFFFF) is the only background value stated as a number anywhere in our platform data — it is Amazon's main-image target. eBay and Google Merchant ask for a white or neutral backdrop in prose a person has to judge, and everything else below is a practical choice rather than a rule someone enforces. Each row is one click in the tool.
| Background | Value | Where it fits | Use this background |
|---|---|---|---|
Practical choice Transparent | No fill | A cutout you can drop onto any later layout — a banner, a lifestyle mock-up, a slide. Keep it as PNG or WebP, and remember Amazon rejects an image with an alpha channel outright while Etsy can render transparent areas black, so flatten before you list on either. | |
Platform requirement Pure white | #FFFFFF | Amazon's main image has to sit on pure white, which its spec fixes at #FFFFFF. Fix to pure white when your studio backdrop is already close and only needs cleaning up; replace with this colour when the original background is something else entirely. | |
Practical choice Light grey | #F5F5F5 | A softer alternative to white for site heroes and lookbooks, where a hard white edge makes the product look cut out. Not for a marketplace main image. | |
Practical choice Black | #000000 | Jewellery, glassware and anything with a bright rim that vanishes against white. Watch the shadows — a dark product on black loses its outline as easily as a white one does on white. | |
Practical choice Warm beige | #F5F0EB | Ceramics, textiles, wood and skincare, where a neutral warm tone reads as natural light rather than a studio. | |
Practical choice Soft blue | #E8EDF2 | A cool, calm backdrop for electronics and tools. Enough contrast to hold an outline without competing with the product. | |
Practical choice Sage green | #E8EDE5 | Plants, food and anything sold on a natural or sustainable angle. Sits behind greens and browns without fighting them. | |
Practical choice Blush pink | #F5E8E8 | Beauty, accessories and gifting. Warm enough to flatter packaging, light enough not to tint the product in the thumbnail. |
- Practical choice
Transparent
A cutout you can drop onto any later layout — a banner, a lifestyle mock-up, a slide. Keep it as PNG or WebP, and remember Amazon rejects an image with an alpha channel outright while Etsy can render transparent areas black, so flatten before you list on either.
- Value
- No fill
- Platform requirement
Pure white
Amazon's main image has to sit on pure white, which its spec fixes at #FFFFFF. Fix to pure white when your studio backdrop is already close and only needs cleaning up; replace with this colour when the original background is something else entirely.
- Value
- #FFFFFF
- Practical choice
Light grey
A softer alternative to white for site heroes and lookbooks, where a hard white edge makes the product look cut out. Not for a marketplace main image.
- Value
- #F5F5F5
- Practical choice
Black
Jewellery, glassware and anything with a bright rim that vanishes against white. Watch the shadows — a dark product on black loses its outline as easily as a white one does on white.
- Value
- #000000
- Practical choice
Warm beige
Ceramics, textiles, wood and skincare, where a neutral warm tone reads as natural light rather than a studio.
- Value
- #F5F0EB
- Practical choice
Soft blue
A cool, calm backdrop for electronics and tools. Enough contrast to hold an outline without competing with the product.
- Value
- #E8EDF2
- Practical choice
Sage green
Plants, food and anything sold on a natural or sustainable angle. Sits behind greens and browns without fighting them.
- Value
- #E8EDE5
- Practical choice
Blush pink
Beauty, accessories and gifting. Warm enough to flatter packaging, light enough not to tint the product in the thumbnail.
- Value
- #F5E8E8
Three things worth knowing before you cut a background out
The two detection modes fail in completely different ways, and so do the two ways of storing the result. Knowing which one you are using explains almost every disappointing cutout.
Fast: floods from the edgesAI: finds the subject Edge flooding or subject detection
Fast mode starts at the border of the image and spreads inwards for as long as the colour keeps matching. It is instant and exact on a flat backdrop, but it only ever reaches background that touches an edge — and if the product touches an edge too, the flood walks straight into it. AI mode has no such rule: a model looks at the whole picture and decides what the subject is.
Use Fast for a product on one flat colour, and switch to AI the moment the backdrop is a real scene, a gradient, or anything with hair, fur or foliage in front of it.
Transparent PNGFilled with white Transparent is not the same as white
Removing a background gives you a PNG with nothing behind the subject. That is perfect for compositing, and wrong for most marketplaces: Amazon rejects any image carrying an alpha channel, and Etsy can draw transparent areas as solid black. Filling the background with white instead gives you an opaque file that looks the same to you and completely different to them.
Keep the transparent PNG as your master, then fill to white and export a second file for any listing.
Too low: halo leftToo high: edges eaten Tolerance decides where the edge lands
A photographed backdrop is never one exact value — lighting, compression and the camera's own noise spread it over a range. Tolerance is how much of that spread still counts as background. Too little and a pale halo of not-quite-matching pixels survives around the subject; too much and the flood crosses into the product itself, eating highlights and light-coloured edges.
Raise it until the halo disappears, then stop. If the product starts losing its edges before the halo goes, the backdrop is too uneven for Fast mode — switch to AI.
What this tool can and cannot separate
Both modes produce a hard, per-pixel decision: a pixel is either subject or background. That is exactly right for a solid object on a clean backdrop and inherently approximate everywhere else. Anything genuinely semi-transparent — a glass, a veil, a wisp of steam — has no correct answer to give, so it comes out either fully kept or fully cut. The manual brush exists for those cases, and for the few stray pixels no threshold gets right.
AI mode needs a segmentation model, and that model is not part of the page. The first time you switch to AI your browser downloads it — the runtime from the jsDelivr CDN and the weights from Hugging Face, about 170 MB in all — and caches it for later visits. Your photo takes no part in that: it is never sent with the request and never leaves the tab. If you would rather your browser made no third-party request at all, stay in Fast mode, which downloads nothing.
"White" is stricter than it looks. A backdrop that reads as white on your screen is often a few points below it, and a marketplace that specifies pure white means the exact value. Fix to pure white snaps a near-white backdrop onto it, and the Amazon main-image checker will tell you whether the file you ended up with actually passes.
The cutout does not change the pixel dimensions — a background edit gives you the same width and height you started with. If the listing also has a minimum size, or the image needs to fit a particular slot, resize it afterwards; doing it the other way round just means re-running the detection on a smaller image.
Formats and limits
- Input: JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, GIF, BMP, SVG, AVIF, HEIC. Output: PNG, WebP, or JPEG when the background is being filled.
- Files up to 100 MB. A very large photo still works, but each pass takes longer — and AI mode is slower again, because the model runs on your device.
- Animated GIFs export as a single static frame.
- Fast mode only reaches background connected to the edges of the image, so an enclosed gap — the hole in a mug handle, the space inside a ring — stays filled until you brush it out or switch to AI.
Background removal FAQ
Is my image uploaded to a server?
No. The photo is decoded and edited by your browser and never leaves your device, so there is no copy to delete afterwards. The only things the page fetches from the network are the AI segmentation model and the runtime it needs — about 170 MB in all, and only if you switch to AI mode. Your image is not part of that request.
What is the difference between Fast and AI mode?
Fast mode matches a colour: it spreads inwards from the edges of the image and treats everything close enough to the reference colour as background. It is instant, needs no download, and is exact on a product shot against one flat colour. AI mode runs a segmentation model that finds the subject instead, which handles busy scenes, gradients, hair, fur and foliage. The model is about 170 MB, downloaded the first time you use it and cached by your browser; it runs on your device, not on a server.
How does the fast background detection work?
It starts from the border of the image and spreads inwards for as long as the pixels stay within the tolerance of your reference colour. Because it only follows connected pixels, it never removes a matching patch in the middle of the product — but it also cannot reach an enclosed area, such as the gap inside a handle, and it can walk into the product itself where the two touch an edge.
What kinds of images work best?
A product photographed against one even backdrop, with a little space between the subject and every edge of the frame. Soft, uniform lighting helps, because it keeps the backdrop within a narrow range of values. Scenes, gradients, patterned surfaces and anything with fine hair or fur are what AI mode is for.
What does the tolerance slider do?
It sets how far a pixel may differ from the reference colour and still count as background. Raise it and more of an uneven backdrop is caught, at the risk of eating into light-coloured product edges; lower it and the detection is stricter, at the risk of leaving a halo. The default of 10 suits a typical white-backdrop product photo, and the slider is live — you can watch the edge move.
Should I use a transparent PNG or a white background?
Transparent for compositing — banners, mock-ups, slides — and white for listings. Amazon rejects an image with an alpha channel outright, and Etsy can render transparent areas as solid black, so a transparent PNG that looks perfect on your desktop can be the reason a listing image fails. Keep the transparent file as your master and export a white-filled copy for marketplaces.
What image formats are supported?
Input: JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, GIF, BMP, SVG, AVIF, HEIC. Output is PNG, WebP or JPEG. PNG and WebP can carry transparency; JPEG cannot, so it is only offered when the background is being filled with a colour or another image rather than removed.
Can I put a different picture behind the product?
Yes. Choose "Replace with an image" once your photo is open and pick a second file. It is scaled to cover the frame and centred, so a background narrower or shorter than your photo is cropped rather than stretched, and the detected subject is drawn back over the top.
Next steps
- Resize ImageSet the pixel dimensions the listing asks for, once the background is settled.
- Crop ImageReframe the subject after the distracting backdrop is gone.
- Compress ImageBring a large PNG cutout back under a marketplace's file-size limit.
- Amazon Main Image CheckerCheck whether your white background is actually pure white before you list.
- Etsy Listing Image CheckerCheck a listing photo against Etsy's requirements, including its transparency caution.
- Google Merchant Center Image CheckerCheck the image against Google Merchant's product-image rules.
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