Image background remover
Automatic where automatic is good enough, manual where it is not. Most tools give you one or the other.
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Three quality levels
Balanced is the default and suits most photos. Fast is lighter on memory and quicker to download; High is a considerably larger model and a slower first run, worth it for hair, fur and thin edges. Switching re-runs the same image.
Erase and restore brushes
Remove a leftover patch of background, or paint back a piece of the subject the model dropped. Twelve steps of undo.
Trim to the subject
Optionally crop the export to what is left, with adjustable padding, so you do not ship a mostly-empty canvas.
How to get a clean cutout, automatic pass first
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Start with the automatic pass
Load the image and run it. For a clear subject this is often the whole job.
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Judge the edges
The checkerboard shows exactly what became transparent. Look at hair, straps, handles and anything thin.
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Correct what is wrong
Erase takes away what should not be there; Restore paints the original pixels back where too much was cut.
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Raise quality if the edge is fuzzy
Switch to High and run again. It costs a few seconds and usually improves fringes noticeably.
Automatic and manual are not opposites
Fully automatic tools are excellent on the eighty percent of images with an obvious subject and a plain-ish background, and frustrating on the rest, because there is no way to tell them they got it wrong.
Manual selection tools give total control and cost far more of your time than a quick cutout is worth. Doing the automatic pass first and then correcting a handful of pixels is usually the fastest route to something you would actually ship.
What the three quality settings change
All three run the same family of segmentation model at different numeric precisions. Fast is quantised and smallest, Balanced is a half-precision build, High is the full-precision model.
Higher precision mostly shows up at the boundary: strands of hair, mesh, wire, transparent glass edges. On a solid object against a plain wall the three will look nearly identical, so start at Balanced and only escalate if the edge disappoints.
Where the focus area earns its keep
When a photo has several plausible subjects — three bottles on a table, two people, a bike beside a bench — an automatic model picks whichever is most visually salient. That may not be the one you meant.
Drawing a box settles it, and the export is limited to that region, so you also avoid a canvas full of empty space around a small object.
Common jobs this handles
Difficult hair and fur
High quality plus a few restore strokes handles most portrait and pet edges.
One object among many
Point the model at the item you care about instead of accepting its guess.
Assets for a layout
Trim to the subject with padding so the cutout drops into a grid cleanly.
Frequently asked questions
Which quality setting should I use?
Balanced for most images. Move to High when the subject has hair, fur or fine detail at the edge, and to Fast if your device is struggling or the image is very large.
Does switching quality make me start over?
No. It re-runs the image you already loaded, keeping your focus area. Retouch strokes are reset because the underlying cutout changes.
How many undo steps are there?
Twelve. Reset returns to the automatic result without discarding your image or your focus selection.
Can I zoom in while brushing?
Not yet — the brush works at the size the image is displayed. For very fine work, export the PNG and finish it in an editor that offers zoom.