Remove the background from a photo

Best treats everything that stands out as the subject, so a hand holding a bottle stays in the cut-out, and so does a second person at the edge of the frame. Crop the photo first if you only want one thing. Fast looks for people and nothing else: a product shot gives it nothing to find, while for a selfie or a group photo it is the quicker, lighter choice. If Best finds no clear subject in a photo of a person, the tool offers to try Fast.

The model looks at your photo at about 512 pixels across and works out, for every pixel, how much of it belongs to the subject. That map is then stretched back over the full-size original with a soft edge, so the saved file keeps every pixel of detail inside the subject. The Edge softness slider sets how that edge behaves: Crisp tightens it, which suits products and logos; Natural leaves it as the model drew it; Soft feathers it, which can hide a rough outline.

Hair and fuzzy edges are part subject and part old background. Left as they are, a dark room behind someone shows as a grey fringe once they sit on white. The tool replaces the colour in those see-through pixels with the subject’s own nearby colours before the new background goes in, which is what removes that fringe.

• Blurred photo puts the subject back on a softened copy of its own photo, with the subject painted out first so no glow shows around it.
• Transparent saves as PNG. White and colour backgrounds can be JPEG, which is far smaller, or PNG.
• A picture that already has see-through areas, such as a logo or a cartoon avatar, keeps them in the result.

Everything happens inside this browser tab. Your photos are opened, cut out and saved by your own device, and nothing about them is sent to us or anyone else. The only things downloaded are the model, from Hugging Face, and the runtime that runs it, from the jsDelivr network, once each; after that the browser keeps them.

The work goes to your graphics chip through WebGPU where the browser offers it. According to web.dev (November 2025) that includes Chrome and Edge on computers, Chrome on many Android phones, Safari on iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe, and Firefox on Windows. Elsewhere it runs on the processor, which works the same but is slower. Every result is checked: if a graphics chip returns an empty or broken mask, the photo is run again on the processor and the chip is skipped for the rest of the visit.

Tip: Cutting out a product for a shop? The product photo maker centres it on a clean background in a square frame, the shape Meta’s catalogue image guidance recommends. For a round profile photo, the profile picture maker frames your head and shoulders.