Will this cut a person out of a photograph?

Only if they are standing against a plain backdrop. This removes a flat colour rather than identifying a subject, so a cluttered background needs a dedicated cutout tool that understands what it is looking at.

Why is there a coloured fringe around my subject?

Anti-aliasing blends the edge into the background over a pixel or two, and those pixels are partly background. Raising the tolerance a little removes most of it; the remainder is the practical limit of colour-based removal.

Parts of my subject disappeared.

The tolerance is too high and is now matching colours within the subject. Lower it until the subject is intact, and accept a small halo as the trade.

Why did my transparent background come out white?

The result was saved as JPEG, which has no alpha channel and fills transparency with white. Save as PNG or WebP instead.

Remove Solid Background

Cut out one flat background colour — logos, product shots, screenshots.

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Questions about what this tool does, which option to pick, or what it can and cannot handle.

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About the Remove Solid Background

Cutting the background out of an image is the everyday task behind a product listing, a profile picture on a coloured card, or a logo that has to sit on something other than white.

This removes a single flat background colour and replaces it with transparency. It is deliberate about its scope: it is not an AI cutout, and it will not separate a person from a cluttered room. What it does reliably is take an image with a uniform background — a logo on white, a product shot on a seamless backdrop, a screenshot, an icon — and make that colour transparent.

The tolerance setting is what makes that work in practice. A background that looks like one flat colour rarely is: JPEG compression introduces slight variation, and a photographed backdrop has gradients from the lighting. Tolerance decides how far from the chosen colour still counts as background. Too low and a halo of near-matching pixels survives around the subject. Too high and parts of the subject start disappearing, beginning with anything sharing a tone with the backdrop.

Edges are where flat-colour removal shows its limits. Anti-aliasing blends the subject into the background over a pixel or two, and those blended pixels are partly background — removing them leaves a hard edge, keeping them leaves a fringe. Fine detail such as hair is the hardest case and the one where a dedicated cutout tool earns its keep.

Save as PNG or WebP. JPEG has no alpha channel, and saving a cutout as JPEG fills the transparency with white, which undoes the entire operation.

How to use it

1Drop in an image with a reasonably uniform background.
2Pick the background colour, or let the tool take it from the corner pixels.
3Raise the tolerance until the halo disappears, then stop before the subject starts eroding.
4Save as PNG or WebP. Saving as JPEG discards the transparency and fills it with white.

Questions

Will this cut a person out of a photograph?: Only if they are standing against a plain backdrop. This removes a flat colour rather than identifying a subject, so a cluttered background needs a dedicated cutout tool that understands what it is looking at.
Why is there a coloured fringe around my subject?: Anti-aliasing blends the edge into the background over a pixel or two, and those pixels are partly background. Raising the tolerance a little removes most of it; the remainder is the practical limit of colour-based removal.
Parts of my subject disappeared.: The tolerance is too high and is now matching colours within the subject. Lower it until the subject is intact, and accept a small halo as the trade.
Why did my transparent background come out white?: The result was saved as JPEG, which has no alpha channel and fills transparency with white. Save as PNG or WebP instead.