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Choose a picture
Drag in a photo, a product shot, a logo or a screenshot. The background comes off straight away.
Free tool
Blur the background of a photo.
Keep the person or the product sharp and soften everything behind it, like the portrait mode on a phone. Pick how strong the blur is and compare before and after. An open AI model finds the subject in this tab, so your photo is never uploaded. Full size, no sign-up, no watermark.
This runs in your browser. Your pictures are never uploaded.
How it works
Three steps, nothing to install.
02 / Check
Compare and pick a background
Drag the line to compare. Keep it see-through, or put the subject on a colour or a blurred copy of the photo.
03 / Save
Download it
A see-through PNG at the full size of your picture, or a JPG with the new background.
Questions
Good to know.
Does it look like a real camera blur?
It is close, not the same. A camera blurs things more the further away they are; this blurs the whole background evenly. Light or Medium usually looks the most natural.
Is my picture uploaded?
No. The AI model is downloaded to your browser and runs there, so the picture never leaves your computer. That also means there is no daily limit and no low resolution preview: you get the full size, free.
Why does it download a model first?
The AI that finds the subject has to run somewhere. Here it runs on your computer, so the page downloads it the first time: 88 MB in browsers with WebGPU, which use the graphics card, or a smaller 44 MB version that runs on the processor. Your browser keeps it, so the next picture starts right away.
Which AI model is it?
ormbg, the Open Remove Background Model, released under the Apache 2.0 licence. It is based on the DIS research (ISNet) for cutting out objects and was made for photos of people, so it is strongest on portraits. In our tests it also cut out a logo cleanly.
What do the edge settings do?
Clean removes the faint haze a soft cut can leave around the subject, and suits most pictures. Soft keeps every half see-through pixel, which helps with hair, fur and glass. Sharp gives hard edges, good for logos and objects.
What does not work well?
Pictures where the subject and the background are the same colour, very small subjects in a busy scene, and see-through things like a glass of water. Try Soft edges for these, or crop closer to the subject first with the image cropper.
Which browsers work?
Browsers with WebGPU, such as current Chrome and Edge, use the graphics card and are fastest. Other current browsers run the smaller model on the processor, which takes longer but gives a similar result.