Remove Background

Background remover for plain backgrounds: free, private, no upload

To remove a background from an image free and private, click Select Image and open a photo, logo or scan with a plain background. Check the colour listed under Background colours to remove, move Tolerance until the background is gone, and click Download PNG. You get a transparent PNG at the original size. Nothing is uploaded: the work happens in your browser, and the Network tab in DevTools will show it.

This is a colour-based background remover, not an AI cut-out tool. It finds the most common colour along the image edges, makes pixels near that colour transparent and fades the border so outlines are not jagged. That suits a white studio backdrop, a flat-colour logo, a scanned signature or a green screen. It cannot separate a person from a busy street, because that background is many colours at once.

Trim the cut-out with the image cropper or set its final size with the image resizer. Keep it as PNG, because JPG cannot store transparency.

Table of Use: what to do for common images

Not sure which colour the background is? Read it with the image color picker.

Features

• Automatic background colour. The most common opaque colour along the four edges is chosen. A note warns when fewer than half the edge pixels are close to it.
• Click to add colours. Each click in the preview adds that pixel's colour. Without a mouse, choose a colour with Another background colour and press Add colour; it is removed from the edges inward. Up to 24 colours can be added. Remove one with its × button, or use the Forget added colours link. Detect from edges resets the main colour.
• Tolerance 0 to 60 and Edge softness 0 to 30. Both are percentages of the largest possible RGB colour distance, about 442 units.
• Two scopes. Background connected to the edges spreads inward from the border and stops at the subject. These colours everywhere (also inside shapes) removes matching colours anywhere.
• Colour fringe removal. On by default; it un-blends the background colour from soft edge pixels so no halo is left.
• Result and Original toggle, plus a readout of how much of the image was removed.
• PNG output at full size. The file is named like logo-no-background.png and keeps your original pixel dimensions. One image is processed at a time.

A pixel is background when its distance d to a background colour is at most T, where d = sqrt(dR² + dG² + dB²) and T is the Tolerance setting as a percentage of 441.7. At the default 12, that is about 53 colour units. S is Edge softness, converted the same way: between T and T + S a pixel keeps (d - T) / S of its opacity, so the edge fades in.

How to remove a background, step by step

1. Click Select Image, or drop a JPG, PNG, WebP or other image on "Open an image".
2. Look at the Result preview. The detected colour appears under Background colours to remove, marked "from the edges".
3. If the wrong colour was picked, change it with the swatch, or remove it with × and click the background.
4. Move Tolerance until the background is gone and Edge softness until the outline looks smooth. Switch between Result and Original to compare.
5. Click any patch that is left. Choose These colours everywhere only if you want matching colours inside the subject removed as well.
6. Pick Transparent or Colour under New background, then click Download PNG. Open another image starts again; Close clears the page.

Give the cut-out finishing touches with the round corner generator, or place it over a new photo with the image overlay tool. To keep transparency in a smaller file, convert the PNG with the PNG to WebP converter; the PNG to JPG converter fills transparent areas with a colour you choose instead.

Who can use it

• Online sellers with product shots on white who need a transparent cut-out for a listing or a catalogue.
• Small-business owners and designers preparing a logo for a coloured page, a slide or a favicon.
• Anyone signing documents who needs a scanned signature without the paper behind it.
• Video and photo hobbyists with green-screen stills.
• People who want a private tool because the image is unreleased, personal or confidential.

For photos with busy backgrounds, as of October 2026 many phones and computers have a built-in subject cut-out, such as lifting the subject in Photos on iPhone and iPad (touch and hold, then Copy), Copy Subject on a Mac, or the Remove background button in Windows 11 Paint. Browse the other image tools for more edits.

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