Background Remover
Free background remover in your browser that makes a flat or solid-colour backdrop transparent, for sprites, icons and product shots. Auto-detect the colour or click to pick it, set the tolerance, keep soft edges, defringe the colour spill and trim to content, then download a transparent PNG. Batch-remove several images at once into one zip. Your image is never uploaded; no credits.
- Before you start
- A picture on a flat or nearly flat background — a sprite, an icon, a render or a product shot — as PNG, JPG, WebP or GIF. Free — it runs in your browser and your image is never uploaded.
- What you end up with
- A PNG with a transparent background, with soft edges kept and the backdrop's colour taken off them, trimmed to its content if you like.
Step by step
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Open a picture
Drop it on the tool, paste it or press Choose an image. The background colour is read from the picture's edges and removed straight away. The picture stays on your device.
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Check the colour
If the guess is wrong, click the background in the preview to pick its colour, or type a hex code. Auto-detect goes back to reading it from the edges.
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Tune the edges
Tolerance is how far from the colour a pixel may be and still go. Edge softness keeps part of a pixel that is only partly background, Feather softens a hard cut by up to 4 pixels, and Defringe takes the backdrop's colour off the edge pixels. From the edges keeps the same colour inside your subject; Everywhere also clears holes and gaps.
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Download
Tick Trim to content to crop to the visible pixels, with a padding if you want a clear border, then press Download PNG. Check the result on the checkerboard, black, white or your own colour first.
Worth knowing
- It is a colour key, so it suits one flat colour. A photograph or a busy scene needs an AI cut-out: Restyle & Edit Image can hand back a picture on a transparent background. That tool spends credits; this one never does.
- Drop several images at once to remove their backgrounds with the same settings and download them in one zip. If a drop is bigger than one batch on your account, the tool opens the first batch and says how many fit.
- Pictures over about 4 megapixels (2048 × 2048) are reduced by a whole number on the way in, and the download is that size.
- Nothing is saved for you, so download before you close the tab.
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