How to remove the background from an image
- Add your image — drop it into the box above, choose it from your device or paste it from the clipboard.
- Click “Remove background automatically” — the tool detects the colour around the edges (white, grey, green…) and removes it.
- Fine-tune — click any leftover area with the Magic wand, use Remove colour for the holes inside letters such as “o” or “a”, and paint with the Eraser or Restore brushes for the details.
- Download the transparent PNG, or click Use as watermark logo to put it straight onto your photos or PDFs.
What it works best with
This tool removes backgrounds by colour, not with AI, so it is fast, precise and completely private. It gives excellent results when the background is a fairly uniform colour:
- Logos saved as JPG with a white background — the most common reason to need a transparent PNG.
- Scanned or photographed signatures on white paper, ready to place on documents.
- Product photos on a white or coloured backdrop, for online shops and marketplaces.
- Icons, illustrations, stamps and screenshots.
Photos of people, hair or busy backgrounds with many colours need an AI tool; here you would have to paint those areas by hand with the brushes.
Remove a white background and make it transparent
For a logo on white, one click is usually enough. If a light halo remains around the edges, increase Edge softness a little: semi-transparent edge pixels are kept smooth and the white is removed from their colour, so the logo looks clean on dark backgrounds too. Use the preview backgrounds (transparent, white, black, green) to check the result before downloading.
From transparent PNG to watermark in one click
A transparent logo is exactly what you need for a professional watermark. Click Use as watermark logo and the result opens in our add logo to photo tool, ready to place on as many images or PDFs as you want — still without uploading anything.
Private: your image never leaves your device
Most background removers upload your images to their servers. This one runs entirely in your browser: the image is processed on your computer or phone, never sent over the internet, and we never see or store it.