Drop in a photo. The subject stays the same, the background goes transparent, and you download a PNG you can place on white, a flat color, or another design. The free cutout runs in your browser and does not upload the picture. A sharper pro cutout and a new scene are optional.
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Drop in a photo. The free cutout runs in your browser and does not upload the picture. Download a transparent PNG, or place it on white, a color, or a new scene.
Drop a picture on this page and download a transparent PNG. The free cutout runs in the browser and does not upload the file. Desktop can ask for a finer local pass. Hair and glass can use the pro cutout at 2 credits. White and flat colors are composed locally. Studio, outdoor, and office cost 5 credits and paste the same subject onto a new empty backdrop. A solid-color backdrop can also use the color-key tool instead.
Three steps, on this page.
The free cutout starts in your browser. The picture is not uploaded. The first visit downloads the model.
Keep the result, ask for a finer desktop pass, or use the pro cutout at 2 credits for hair and glass.
Save the transparent PNG, or place it on white, a flat color, or a new scene before you download.
A cutout keeps the person, product, or logo you already photographed and only removes what sits behind it. The download is a PNG with a real alpha channel, at the resolution the cutout produced. Faces, packaging text, and product edges are not regenerated.
The default cutout runs on your device. The picture is not uploaded, and that pass does not spend credits. The first visit downloads the model, then the browser keeps it. On a desktop you can ask for a finer local pass. Phones stay on the default. Hair, glass, and soft edges can move to the pro cutout, which uploads the photo and costs 2 credits. A failed pro result is refunded.
After the cutout, a white or flat-color backdrop is composed on your device and does not cost extra. Studio, outdoor, and office are different: a new empty backdrop is generated, then the cutout subject is placed on it. That step costs 5 credits and does not redraw the subject. There is no brush for painting the matte back, and there is no batch queue on this page.
One photo in, a cutout you can reuse.
A catalog shot becomes a transparent PNG you can drop on white or a marketplace template.
A person or a mark comes off a busy backdrop without redrawing the face or the lettering.
The same PNG sits in a slide, a shop listing, or a design file because the background is actually transparent.
Background removal keeps the subject of an existing photo and makes the area behind it transparent. The result is a PNG with a real alpha channel, so that subject can sit on white, a flat color, or another layout. It is not the same as recoloring a solid backdrop, and it is not the same as drawing a new picture.
A transparent PNG stores an alpha value with the color of each pixel. Where alpha is zero, that pixel is see-through. Where it is partial, edges such as hair can blend into whatever sits behind. A JPEG cannot do this, because it has no alpha. Saving a cutout as JPEG paints a background back in.
Same photo, a different job.
Click one solid color and key it out. Best for white studio shots, green screens, and flat logos.
Fix scratches, sharpen blur, and colorize a black-and-white picture before or after the cutout.
Change the file type only. A JPEG has no alpha, so this does not remove a background.
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Removing the background is one job. ChatImg's editor can restyle the same photo, or you can start a new picture from a description. Free to start.
