Put a product photo on a white background

Only a reduced copy, not the photo. To find the subject, the page shrinks the frame to 1024 × 1024 pixels, sends that copy to our server over an encrypted connection and gets back only the mask, the outline of the subject. Your original file stays on your device: decoding, the cut-out, the edges, the background colour and the PNG encoding all happen inside this browser tab. The copy is deleted as soon as the mask is ready, and the mask within about two hours. It works this way on every device, computers included.

In our check on October 21, 2026, in Chrome on a Mac, a photo took 16 to 18 seconds from Update result to the finished file. About 14 to 16 of those seconds were the wait for the outline from our server, and about two the cut-out itself. Nothing has to be downloaded into the browser first, so the first photo is as quick as the ones after it. The server works out masks one at a time, so when many people use the tool at once a photo can wait a little in the queue.

Because the network is heavy. Run inside a browser tab, it first has to be downloaded and then holds more than 2 GB of memory while it works: a phone closes the tab, and many computers take half a minute per photo or fail on some graphics cards. On our server the same network returns the mask in a few seconds on any device, and your browser downloads nothing. The cost is a reduced 1024 × 1024 copy of the frame travelling over the network, which is why the note under the settings says so.

Yes, one. Each photo is a request to our server and counts towards the shared hourly limit of the server tools: 30 jobs an hour. Changing the background colour or the edges of the photo you just processed reuses its mask and does not count again. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no daily quota. Twenty photos per batch is a separate limit, set by the memory of the browser tab.

Good, not perfect. Individual strands against a plain, contrasting background come out convincingly; hair against a busy background of similar colour is where every tool in this category struggles, including the paid ones. Precise edges is on by default and does most of the work; it is what stops a portrait shot on white from carrying a pale rim onto a dark backdrop. Widening Edge softness hides what is left. Switch to Fast if you would rather have the seconds back than the last of the fringe.

Yes, up to 20 files, all with the same settings, returned as a ZIP. Each photo goes to the server as its own 1024 × 1024 copy, so a batch of twenty uses twenty of the hourly server jobs. If one file cannot be read, the rest still come back and you get a note saying how many were left out.

Transparent Background removes one colour that you point at. It is the right tool for a logo or a scan on a flat white sheet, it needs no model and it runs instantly. This tool understands what a subject is, so it works on real photographs where the background is a room, a street or a sky. Use the simple one for flat backgrounds and this one for photographs.

JPG, PNG and WebP. HEIC and AVIF photos need converting first, and the tool will point you at the converter with your file already loaded. Format is detected from the file's contents rather than its name, so a mislabelled file is recognised for what it really is.