Web developers Benjamin Groessing and David Fankhauser have developed a tool which is now available online as remove.bg which performs exactly the task that its clever moniker suggests, remove backgrounds from images consisting of people in them. While this was already effectively possible using photo editing software like Adobe Photoshop, it’s a much more complex process of selecting finer details and areas in the image to be able to crop it out from the background, something that remove.bg does using just a single click. The developer claims to have built the service using Python, Ruby and Deep Learning algorithms and offers a no-frills experience and an easy-to-use UI.
How To Easily Remove the Background From Your Picture
The service is completely free as of now and the website itself provides an ad-free experience. The caveat, however, is that at least for now, only images with a person/people in them can be used to remove the background, so if you have a picture of an object or your pet, you may not be able to perform the background removal. We ran a couple of test rounds by trying to remove the background from a few images and the results are pretty impressive, so head over to remove.bg to start editing your own pictures with custom backgrounds!
