Free background remover for product photos
Drop in a photo and the background comes off in about three seconds — clean edges, transparent PNG, ready to drop straight into an Etsy or eBay listing.
Drop a photo here
Or click to browse — you can paste one straight from your clipboard too.
Choose an imageOpening the editor…
Your image is on its way. Cutting starts the moment it lands.
Drag the handle and check the cut yourself.
The part that matters in background removal is not the middle of the object — it is the edge. Hair, wicker, fabric fray and thin handles are where most tools leave a grey halo or eat into the product. Pull the divider across and look at the boundary.
Illustration · your own upload is the real test
Three steps, no settings to learn.
There is nothing to configure. The model finds the subject, cuts around it, and hands you a transparent PNG.
Add your photo
Drag it onto the box above, click to browse, or paste it from your clipboard. JPG, PNG and WEBP up to 10 MB all work.
It cuts on arrival
The editor opens with your image already loading and starts work immediately — you do not press anything. Most photos are done in about three seconds.
Download or keep going
Take the transparent PNG, or stay in the editor and upscale it, resize it for a marketplace, or compress it before you upload.
Built around marketplace photos, not stock portraits.
Most background removers are tuned for people. Ours gets pointed at products all day, because that is who uses it.
Etsy's white square
Etsy listings look their best on a clean, consistent background. A transparent PNG drops onto white without the grey rim you get from a rushed cut.
eBay's gallery rules
eBay wants the item filling the frame on a plain background. Cut first, then resize in the same editor — no round trip through another app.
Handmade and textured goods
Knitwear, wicker, dried flowers and jewellery chains are the hardest things to cut. They are also most of what sells on Etsy, so that is what we test against.
One balance, every tool
The same credits run the upscaler, the resizer, the compressor and the rest. Nothing separate to buy for each job.
Your photos are not kept
An image is processed for the job you asked for and then removed. Nothing is added to a training set and nothing is shared with another account.
No queue, no watermark
The result you see is the result you download — full resolution, no stamp across the middle, no waiting room.
What it handles well — and where it still struggles.
No background remover is perfect, and any page that says otherwise is selling you something. Here is roughly where the line sits, so you can judge before you spend a credit.
Clean, well-lit products
A single object with light behind it and a bit of contrast against the background comes out almost perfectly — ceramics, candles, bottles, boxes, printed goods, packaged items. This is the majority of listing photography and it is where the model is strongest.
Soft and textured edges
Knitted throws, macramé, dried flowers, fur, feathers and hair come out well most of the time, but expect to look closely at the edge. If a few strands are lost, re-shooting with a plainer background behind the item fixes it more reliably than any retouching would.
Glass, mesh and low contrast
Clear glass, thin wire mesh, tulle, and anything photographed against a background of the same colour are genuinely difficult — not for us, for every tool. The model has to guess what is object and what is behind it, and sometimes it guesses wrong.
Five things that fix most bad results.
When a cutout comes back wrong, it is almost always the photo rather than the model. These five habits take a minute each and they raise the hit rate more than any setting could.
- Put contrast behind the item. A white mug on a white table is the single most common cause of a poor cut. Any plain surface of a different tone will do.
- Light it from the front, not behind. Backlight turns edges into a bright fringe that the model reads as background.
- Keep the whole object in frame. A handle or corner running off the edge often gets cut off entirely.
- Upload the original, not a screenshot. Screenshots and re-saved JPGs carry compression artefacts along the edge, and those artefacts end up in the cutout.
- Shoot one item at a time. Several objects with gaps between them is a much harder problem than one object in the middle of the frame.
What each marketplace actually wants from a photo.
Every platform has its own idea of a good listing image, and most of them start with the same thing: get rid of whatever is behind the product. Here is what each one is looking for, and where a transparent cutout saves you the most time.
Etsy listings
Etsy's own guidance is to shoot on a plain, uncluttered background and keep the item filling most of the frame. The awkward part is consistency — a shop looks amateur the moment one photo is on a wooden table, the next on a bedsheet and the third on a rug. Cutting every product out and dropping it on the same white gives a shop page that reads as one brand rather than ten separate afternoons.
eBay gallery images
eBay is stricter: the main gallery image is expected to show the item on a plain background with no added text, borders or promotional graphics. Photos that break this can be suppressed in search. A clean cutout on white satisfies it without you having to build a lightbox, and you can resize to eBay's recommended dimensions in the same editor before you download.
Shopify and your own store
On your own storefront the win is different — transparent PNGs sit on any section background you choose, so a seasonal colour change to the theme does not leave every product on a mismatched white square. One cutout gets reused across the product grid, the hero, the email and the ad.
Print on demand mockups
Mockup generators expect artwork with a transparent background so the design sits on the garment rather than in a white box. Removing the background before you upload is usually the difference between a mockup that looks printed and one that looks like a sticker.
Social and ads
Product photos in feed ads perform better when the item is separated from its background and placed on a flat brand colour — it stops the picture blending into the rest of the scroll. The cutout is the reusable asset; the background becomes a design decision you can change per campaign.
Catalogues and spec sheets
For wholesale sheets and lookbooks, transparent products can be arranged tightly on a page without white rectangles colliding with each other. It is a small thing that makes a document look typeset rather than pasted together.
Why the result is always a PNG.
Transparency is not a visual effect — it is a fourth channel of data stored alongside red, green and blue, called alpha. Each pixel carries a value for how opaque it is, which is how a cutout can have a soft, half-transparent edge instead of a hard jagged one.
JPG has no alpha channel at all. That is not a limitation of any particular editor; the format simply has nowhere to put the information. Save a cutout as a JPG and the transparent area is filled — usually with white or black — permanently. This is why "transparent JPG" is a thing people search for and never find.
- PNG — carries alpha, lossless, the right choice for a cutout and what you get back here.
- WEBP — also carries alpha and produces smaller files, useful on your own site. Convert after cutting if page weight matters.
- JPG — no alpha, ever. Fine as an input, and fine as a final export once you have placed the cutout on a solid colour.
- Marketplace uploads — Etsy and eBay both accept PNG. If a shop shows a black background where you expected white, the platform has flattened your alpha onto black; place it on white yourself first.
Automatic cutting versus doing it by hand.
Cutting a product out with a pen tool in Photoshop still produces the best possible edge, and for a hero image on a homepage it can be worth the twenty minutes. For a catalogue of eighty listings it is not, and that is the trade this tool exists to make.
Best edge, worst pace
Fifteen to thirty minutes per product for someone who knows the tools, and a licence to pay for. Perfect control over every curve, and the only reliable option for glass, reflections and compositing work where the edge will be inspected closely.
Good edge, three seconds
A model trained on millions of images makes the same judgement in one pass. On ordinary product photography the difference is invisible at listing size. On difficult edges it is visible if you go looking, which is exactly why the comparison slider above lets you look.
Automatic first, hand-fix the few
Run the whole batch automatically, then spend your time only on the handful that came back imperfect — usually the glass and the fine mesh. Reshooting those few against a plainer background is faster than fighting the cut-out.
New accounts start with 100 credits free — about 33 cutouts — with no card and no subscription. The same balance runs every other tool in the suite, so nothing is ring-fenced to one job.
Background removal, answered.
Is the background remover free?
Every new account gets 100 credits at signup with no card required, and a background removal costs 3 credits — so roughly 33 images before you have paid anything. After that, credit packs are a one-off purchase rather than a subscription, and the same balance covers every other tool.
How long does it take to remove a background?
About three seconds for a typical listing photo. Larger files take a little longer because they have to upload first — a 10 MB image on a slow connection spends most of its time in transit rather than in processing.
What file types and sizes can I upload?
JPG, PNG and WEBP, up to 10 MB per image. The result comes back as a PNG with a real alpha channel, which is what you need for a genuinely transparent background — JPG cannot store transparency at all, so a "transparent JPG" is not a thing.
Will the image have a watermark?
No. What you see in the editor is what downloads: full resolution, no stamp, no reduced quality version behind a paywall.
Do you keep or train on my photos?
No. An image is held only for as long as the job takes and is then removed. It is not added to any training set, and it is never visible to another account.
Can I put a white or coloured background back on afterwards?
Yes. Once the original background is gone you have a transparent PNG, which you can place on any colour you like — most marketplace photos end up on plain white. Etsy and eBay both display cleanest that way.
Does it work on hair, fur and knitted textures?
Usually, but this is the edge case worth checking. Fine strands against a busy background are the hardest thing in the job for any tool. If a result loses detail, re-shooting the item against a plainer surface fixes it more reliably than editing afterwards.
Can I remove backgrounds from several photos at once?
Not yet — images are processed one at a time today. Batch handling is on the roadmap, and each image will cost the same 3 credits when it lands.
What if the cut comes out wrong?
Drag the handle to see exactly where the cut went wrong, then try the photo again against a plainer background — that fixes far more edges than any amount of touching up. Hair, glass and fine mesh are the hard cases, and no cut-out tool gets all three.
Do I need to install anything?
No. It runs in the browser on desktop and mobile — Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge all work. There is nothing to download and no extension required for this tool.
Everything else you can do to the same image.
Once a photo is open in the editor, every tool below is one click away — no re-uploading.
Try it on your worst photo.
The hardest image you have is the honest test. Drop it in and see where the edge lands.