Photo background changer: any color or your own photo

A photo background changer takes the subject out of one picture and puts something new behind it. Drop your photo into the box above and the AI separates the person, pet or product from its surroundings on your own device. Then pick the new background: white or black, a color from the picker, or another photo. The download matches your original's size, has no watermark and needs no account, and neither picture is uploaded.

Choosing a background color

A plain color is the quickest change and often the most finished-looking, because there is no lighting or perspective to match.

• Profile pictures. Pick a shade that stands apart from your hair and clothes: light or pastel behind dark hair, deeper behind blond or gray hair, and anything but the color of your top. Profile pictures are mostly seen at thumbnail size, where an even, calm color keeps attention on the face.
• ID-style and team photos. White or light gray gives the plain look of a badge, a staff directory or a résumé headshot, and turns photos from different rooms into a matching set. Official documents have their own rules; see the questions below.
• Brand colors. Match your brand color with the picker, typing the exact hex code or RGB values where your browser's picker has a field for them, so every image in a series agrees. Save those as PNG, since JPG compression can shift a flat color slightly.

Using your own photo as the background

Click Image and open any picture on your device, such as a view you photographed or a plain textured wall. It stays on your device too.

The picture is scaled to cover the whole frame: it keeps its proportions, sits centered, and whatever extends past the frame on two sides is cut off. You can't drag or resize it, and the subject keeps the position and size it had in your original photo. So choose the picture with care:

• Match the orientation. A tall portrait over a wide landscape keeps only the middle of the landscape, so pick a background shaped like your photo, with the part you want to see near the center.
• Use a big enough picture. A background with fewer pixels than your photo is enlarged to fill the frame, which softens it; one at least as large as your photo stays crisp.

Matching light and color

A new scene looks believable when the subject could have been photographed there. Compare the two photos first:

• Direction. Notice which side of the face or product is brighter. If the subject is lit from the left and the sun in the scene comes from the right, the edit gives itself away.
• Warmth. Indoor lamps make skin look yellow-orange, while shade and cloudy daylight look bluish. Pair warm light with a warm scene and cool with cool.
• Brightness. A softly lit portrait on a scene in harsh midday sun never quite sits together.
• Camera height. A photo taken at eye level belongs on a scene shot at eye level; a background shot from high up puts the horizon in the wrong place and makes the subject seem to float.
• Focus. Behind a portrait, a slightly out-of-focus scene usually looks more natural than a pin-sharp one. The Blur option softens only your original photo, not a picture you add, so pick a scene that is already soft, or blur the original background instead.

A big jump in brightness between the old background and the new one makes any trace of the old color along the outline easy to spot, so inspect the edges after that kind of change; the walkthrough for fixing edges covers the cleanup.

What the changer does not do

• No AI-generated scenes. Nothing is invented from a text description; the background is a color, a blurred copy of your photo or a picture you supply.
• No shadows. No shadow is drawn under the subject, and one in the original photo usually goes with the old background, so a full-length figure can look like it's hovering. Head-and-shoulders and waist-up photos swap more convincingly.

For marketplace listings, the product photo background preset puts the product on pure white and trims and squares the photo. For photo tips by subject, see removing the background from people, pets and products.