Background remover for artwork
Turn a logo, clipart or a product shot on a plain backdrop into a clean transparent PNG. Free, no signup, and your image never leaves this computer.
Transparent, and still crisp at the edges
Most free removers hand back a shape with a jagged rim, because they decide each pixel is either background or not. Edges in real artwork aren't like that: the pixel at the border is a mix of the design and whatever was behind it. This tool keeps that in-between pixel partly transparent, so the edge stays smooth when you put the design on a new colour.
It works in Lab, the colour space built so that "how different do these look" matches arithmetic. That's why a cream background can be removed while a nearly-white part of the design stays.
What to do with the result
- Print then cut. A transparent PNG is what the cut border is measured from, so the blade follows the artwork instead of a white box. Take it to the sticker converter or the sheet maker.
- Layered vinyl. Clear the background first and the colour layers come out clean.
- Shop photos. A product on transparent sits on any listing background without a white rectangle around it.
- Sublimation and HTV. Any leftover background prints, so getting it properly transparent is the whole job.
The controls, in plain terms
- How close counts as background — raise it when patches survive, lower it when parts of the design disappear.
- Edge softness — the width of the fade at the border. Higher is smoother on photos; lower is crisper on hard-edged graphics.
- Trim the edge — gives up the outermost ring of pixels, which is where a pale halo lives.
- Keep gaps inside the artwork — on by default, so the middle of an O survives.
Questions
What kind of images does this work on?
Artwork on a plain background: logos, clipart, scanned line drawings, digital designs, and product photos shot on a white or single-colour backdrop. That covers most of what gets cut, printed or listed in a shop.
Will it cut a person out of a holiday photo?
No, and it says so rather than making a mess of it. Separating a person from a busy room needs a trained model, which would mean either downloading one or sending your photo to a server. Both would break the two things this site is built on: nothing leaves your computer, and the free tools cost nothing to run. If the edges of your image are several different colours, the tool tells you it is the wrong job.
Why is there still a pale outline around my artwork?
The old background bled into the edge pixels when the image was first saved. Nudge Trim the edge up by one; it gives up the outermost ring of pixels, which is usually exactly the halo. Lowering Edge softness also helps on hard-edged graphics.
It removed the middle of my letter O. How do I keep it?
Leave "only remove background around the artwork" switched on. With it on, only background connected to the outside is removed, so enclosed areas stay. Switch it off when you genuinely want every white area gone.
Can I choose what counts as the background?
Yes. Press Pick a colour from the image and click the colour you want gone. That's the way to drop a coloured backdrop while keeping white parts of the design.
Is anything uploaded?
No. The image is decoded by your browser and the pixels are worked on by code running on this page. Open the Network tab in your browser's developer tools and watch while you use it: nothing leaves this computer.