Background Remover

Cut out people, products and pets automatically and download a transparent PNG at the photo's full size — or put them on white, blue, red or any colour you pick. It all runs on your device; your photos are not uploaded.

Drop photos hereorChoose photosJPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC · batch supported · Ctrl+V to paste · nothing is uploaded

The first time, your browser downloads the AI model from capypix.com: about 97 MB, one time only. That takes under a minute on fast broadband and several minutes on a slow connection. The model is then kept in this browser, so next time it starts right away.

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White, blue and red are common ID-photo backgrounds. Check which colour your form asks for.

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🔒 Your photos are processed on your own device and never uploaded. Only the AI model is downloaded, from this site. Your settings are remembered in this browser.

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How to remove a background from a photo

1. Drop one or more photos into the box above, tap Choose photos, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V. The first time, the AI model (about 97 MB) downloads from capypix.com and is kept by your browser, so later visits skip that wait.
2. Pick a background. Transparent gives a see-through PNG; White, Blue, Red or Custom fills it with a solid colour that you can save as JPG or PNG.
3. Click Preview to flip between Original and Result, then download each cut-out, or all of them at once as a ZIP.

What downloads the first time, and what stays on your device

Opening this page loads nothing heavy. When you add your first photo, the browser fetches the cut-out model and the engine that runs it: about 97 MB in total, all from capypix.com. The model is IS-Net (the “general use” version), released by Xuebin Qin and colleagues with their DIS research project in 2022. We start from the ONNX copy of it distributed by the open-source rembg project and store its weights at half precision, which brings the download down from about 179 MB to 90 MB with practically the same results; it arrives in 12 parts. The licenses page lists the sources and exactly what we changed. The engine is ONNX Runtime Web from Microsoft, sent compressed at 6.6 MB.

A progress bar counts the megabytes and estimates the time left. You can cancel at any point — finished parts are kept, so Resume download picks up where it stopped instead of starting over. Every part is checked against a checksum before it is used, and a damaged one is fetched again.

Once everything has arrived, it is saved in this browser's storage for capypix.com. Next time the model starts within seconds without being downloaded again. A private or incognito window forgets it when you close the window, and clearing this site's data deletes it; if the browser refuses to store it at all, the tool tells you.

Your photos themselves never leave the device. The model runs inside the page, so unreleased product shots, ID photos and pictures of your children are handled locally. The tool downloads the model to you; nothing from your photos is sent back.

Graphics card or processor: how long a photo takes

If your browser supports WebGPU — current Chrome and Edge do on most Windows and Mac computers — the model runs on the graphics card. Otherwise it runs on the processor through WebAssembly, on a single core. In our tests on a Mac mini with an M4 chip in Chrome, a photo took about 0.3 seconds on the graphics card and about 6 seconds on the processor. Older and low-power laptops take longer, especially without WebGPU.

The small grey line under the tool tells you which one is in use and how long the last photo took. If the graphics card fails partway through, that photo is redone on the processor automatically. Working on one photo needs roughly 1.5 GB of memory, so on a computer that is short of memory, close a few tabs if you see an out-of-memory message.

Photos that cut out cleanly, and the hard ones

The model looks for the main subject of the picture and treats everything else as background. It does best when that subject is obvious:

• Clean results: a person against a wall or the sky, a product on a table or a plain backdrop, a dog on a lawn, a car in an empty street — anything with a clear outline and a background of a different colour or brightness.
• Harder: curly or flyaway hair in front of a busy background, glass and clear plastic, smoke and veils, bicycle spokes and thin plant stems, a white shirt against a white wall, and group shots where it is unclear which person is meant to stay.

Edges come out soft rather than traced strand by strand. The model looks at a copy of the photo squeezed to 1024 × 1024 pixels, and the mask it draws is then enlarged smoothly to the full size. On most subjects that gives a natural edge, but the finest detail — single hairs, the tips of fur — can blur, and a trace of the old background colour can stay in the fringe. In one of our test photos, a cat kept a faint pink tint from the blanket it was lying on.

Things touching the subject are often kept as part of it: a watch photographed on a display stand kept the stand. Shadows on the floor usually go with the background, so a cut-out can look as if it floats; add a soft shadow in your design app if it needs one. There are no brushes here for erasing or restoring areas. For that kind of touch-up, open the PNG in an editor such as Photoshop, GIMP or Photopea.

Taking a photo that is easy to cut out

• Choose a plain background that contrasts with the subject: a dark product on a light sheet, a fair-haired person in front of a darker wall.
• Light the subject evenly from the front or side. Strong light from behind blurs the outline.
• Leave a little space around the subject so no part of it is cut off by the edge of the frame.
• Let the subject fill most of the picture. Because the model sees the whole photo at 1024 × 1024, a small figure in a wide shot — or anything in a long panorama, which gets squashed into that square — has fewer pixels to work with. Cropping closer in your photo app first gives cleaner edges.
• Shoot at full resolution. The cut-out keeps the original's width and height (only photos above 16 megapixels are scaled down to that), so a sharp photo gives a sharp result.

Transparent PNG, white or a colour

Transparent always saves a PNG, because JPG cannot store transparency. Use it whenever the cut-out will sit on top of something else: a slide, a poster, a web page. If the original was a PNG that already had transparent areas, they stay transparent.

White, Blue, Red and Custom fill the background with a solid colour, and you choose JPG or PNG. JPG, saved at quality 92, is much smaller and accepted almost everywhere; PNG keeps the edges free of compression artefacts. White is exactly #FFFFFF. Amazon, for instance, asks for a pure white background (RGB 255, 255, 255) on main product images — check its current image requirements before you upload.

Blue (#438EDB) and red (#D9001B) are colours often used for ID-style photos, not an official standard. If a form gives exact values, choose Custom and enter them in the colour picker. Switching the background or the format does not run the model again: each cut-out is kept and only the colour is redrawn, so a whole list updates in a second or two. Your choice is remembered in this browser for next time.

Logos, signatures and other graphics

The model is built for photographs. It often copes with a dark logo on a white page, but flat graphics have a better route: the PNG to SVG converter traces the shapes into a vector and can drop a white background while it does so, which keeps the edges crisp at any size.

If an image you downloaded shows a grey-and-white checkerboard that will not go away, that pattern was painted into the picture; it is not real transparency. The WebP to PNG page explains how to tell the difference.

Using cut-outs in slides and designs

Transparent PNGs drop straight into PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, Canva and Figma, and the background stays see-through. A few touches help a cut-out look as if it belongs there:

• Add a soft shadow beneath or behind the subject so it sits on the page instead of hovering.
• Match the lighting. A face lit from the left looks wrong on a backdrop lit from the right.
• For a sticker look, give the cut-out a white outline (a stroke) a few pixels wide.
• Scale it down, never up: enlarging past the original size only adds blur. To make a lighter file for the web, Resize Image reduces the pixels and, with “Same as original”, keeps the PNG and its transparency.
• For the solid-colour JPG versions, Compress Image can bring a file under an upload limit such as 200 KB.

Built-in options you may already have

On supported iPhones and iPads with iOS 16 or later, touching and holding the subject of a picture in the Photos app lifts it off the background so you can copy or share it. PowerPoint has Remove Background on the Picture Format tab, and Paint in Windows 11 has a remove-background button. These are handy for a quick one-off. What this page adds is batch processing with a ZIP download, output at the original size, solid-colour backgrounds for ID-style photos, and a before-and-after check of every result.

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