Transparent background maker
Upload a product shot, a sticker design or a portrait, as a JPG or a PNG, and get it back as a PNG with the background gone and every pixel behind the subject see-through. A matting model finds the edge; your picture is not redrawn.
- 7 credits a run (about $0.07 on Starter), with any DreamBench plan.
- Runs on BiRefNet.Runs on BiRefNet, one of the models DreamBench renders with.
- A preset of the AI background remover.
What is a transparent background?
A transparent background has fully see-through pixels around the subject: a PNG stores how see-through each pixel is in its alpha channel. This tool makes one from a JPG or a PNG, for designers, sellers and anyone putting a cutout on a color, a slide or a sticker. It is part of every DreamBench plan, from $9.99 a month.
How to make a background transparent
Upload the picture
Drop in a product shot, a sticker design, a portrait or any picture with one clear subject. Paste it or pick it from your device.
Make the background transparent
Press Remove the background: transparent is already set on this page, so there is nothing to choose. A matting model works out the exact edge of the subject and makes every background pixel see-through, and you download a PNG with an alpha channel at the size of your upload. The first time, create a free account and choose a plan.
Download the transparent PNG
The cutout shows in the page over a gray-and-white checkerboard, which is how transparency is displayed. Download it full size and drop it onto any color, photo or slide.
Uses
Make a JPG background transparent
Upload a JPG, a WebP or a photo straight from a phone: it comes back as a PNG, the format that can hold transparency. A JPG saved at low quality carries blocky halos at its edges, which can follow into the cut, so upload the cleanest copy you have.
Transparent PNGs for stickers and Cricut
A die-cut sticker or a Print Then Cut design needs the subject with nothing around it. Upload the PNG to Cricut Design Space or send it to a sticker printer: the background is already gone, so the cut line follows the subject. Print shops commonly ask for 300 pixels per inch at the printed size, so a 5 cm sticker needs about 600 pixels across; the PNG is the size of your upload, up to 2048 pixels on its long edge, about 17 cm at that density.
Make a logo transparent
Logos are flat graphics with hard edges and sometimes hairline strokes, which matting finds harder than a photo. The logo page says what to upload and how thin lines fare.
Logo background removerA transparent background for an Amazon or Etsy listing
Amazon's main image must be on pure white, so make that one with the white background maker. Keep the transparent PNG for banners, secondary images and designs where the product sits on your own color.
White background makerA cutout for a YouTube thumbnail or a stream overlay
A person cut out with their hair kept, layered over a thumbnail background or an overlay in OBS or Canva. To keep the photo's own background but quieter, with room for a title, blur it instead.
Blur background toolWorks with
- What it takes
- JPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC, up to 40 MB, straight from a phone or a camera. An iPhone's HEIC photo becomes a JPEG on your device as you choose it, in any browser. A picture larger than 2048 pixels on its long edge is scaled to 2048 before the run.
- What you get
- A PNG with a transparent background, at the size of your upload, up to 2048 pixels on its long edge.
- Canva, Figma and Photoshop
- The PNG keeps its transparency: the cutout sits on any background with no box around it.
- PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides and Word
- Insert the PNG as a picture (Insert, then Image, in Google Slides) and the slide or the page shows through around the subject. No transparency setting is needed: the see-through pixels are in the file.
- Cricut Design Space
- Upload the PNG for Print Then Cut; there is no background left to erase.
Worth knowing
Which model runs it, and where it fails
Runs on BiRefNet. BiRefNet is an open-source model built to separate a subject from its background at high resolution. It decides, pixel by pixel, what is subject and what is background, with soft edges where the two meet, and draws nothing new. DreamBench runs it on fal, and the subject in the result is made of your photo's own pixels.
See-through, not a white box
The PNG carries an alpha channel: every background pixel is transparent, so the cutout sits on a dark page, a photo or a colored shape with no box around it.
Soft edges where they belong
The matte is estimated per pixel, so hair, fur, fringes and feathered edges stay soft and part-transparent instead of being cut with a hard line. It is worked out at 2048 pixels on an upload over 1280 pixels on its long edge, so a large, sharp upload keeps finer strands.
Your picture is not redrawn
A matting model only decides what is subject and what is background. The colors, lettering and detail of the subject are the pixels you uploaded.
Where it fails
- Very thin strokes, hairline lettering and a signature can thin out or break where the model is unsure what is subject.
- Glass, smoke and veils keep whatever was seen through them, so they come out tinted by the old background.
- A subject that matches its background in color gives a rough edge in the places where the two meet.
Transparent background maker FAQ
Will my download have a transparent background or a white one?
Transparent. On this page the background is always see-through and the file is always a PNG. For the subject on pure white instead, the white background maker gives the same cutout flattened onto #ffffff.
Can I make a JPG transparent?
A JPG cannot be transparent, because the format has no way to store see-through pixels. Upload the JPG here and you get a PNG back, with the background transparent and the subject's own pixels kept. Upload the cleanest copy you have, since a heavily compressed JPG carries halos into the edge.
Can I use the transparent background maker without a plan?
No. Every run needs a DreamBench plan; you create an account on the way, and the button shows the price in credits before you press it. A run that fails is refunded. The PNG you download carries no watermark: it is your subject's own pixels on transparency and nothing else.
Is a transparent background accepted on Amazon or Etsy?
Amazon's main image must be on pure white, so use a white background there and keep the transparent PNG for other images and designs. Etsy doesn't require white, but check how the PNG looks in the listing preview before you publish.
Can I make only one color transparent, like the white in a graphic?
This tool works by subject, not by color: it keeps what it reads as the subject and makes the rest see-through. A flat graphic on one plain color cuts cleanly that way. For a logo, the logo background remover says what to upload.
Why does my transparent PNG show a white, black or checkered background?
The PNG is transparent; the viewer is painting white, black or a checkerboard behind the see-through pixels so you can see where they are, as this page's preview does. Drop the file onto a colored shape in Canva or a slide and the color shows through. A site that shows black or white after an upload has flattened the file: upload the PNG itself, not a JPG copy.
Why is my PNG not transparent?
A PNG is only transparent if it was saved with an alpha channel. A photo saved as a PNG, a screenshot or a JPG renamed to .png still has its background pixels. Run it through this page and the background pixels become truly see-through in the PNG you download.
Does making a background transparent change the subject itself?
No. The matting model only decides which pixels belong to the subject and how opaque each edge pixel is. Colors, lettering, textures and faces are the pixels you uploaded; nothing is repainted or generated, and the PNG is lossless. A 4K or larger picture is scaled to 2048 pixels on its long edge before the run, so the result is at most that size.
Can I make a background transparent in Canva or on my iPhone instead?
Yes: Canva's background remover makes a transparent PNG inside its editor, and on an iPhone you can lift a subject off its background in Photos and paste it elsewhere. This page runs in the browser on a phone, a tablet or a computer, nothing to install, and gives you the full-size PNG with soft edges kept, without an editor around it.
Can I make a transparent emote, emoji or profile picture from a photo?
Yes: the cutout is a transparent PNG, the format emotes, emoji and profile pictures are usually made from, Discord and Twitch included. Each platform sets its own pixel size and file-size limit, so resize the PNG in your editor after the cut, and check a small emote at the size it will be shown.
Can I make a screenshot transparent?
Yes, a screenshot is a PNG like any other upload. It cuts cleanly when there is one clear subject, a logo or a product on a page. An interface full of text and boxes has no subject the model can pick, so crop the screenshot to the part you want before you upload it.
Can I download it as a WebP, GIF or SVG?
No. The download is a PNG, which every design tool and browser reads with its transparency. Convert it to WebP in your editor if a site asks for one; a GIF holds transparency with hard edges only. An SVG is a vector and needs tracing, which the logo page explains.
Can I make several images transparent at once, or through an API?
No. Each run takes one photo, so a set of pictures is one run each, and there is no API: the tool is used through this page, in the browser. Every cutout is matted on its own, so check each edge at full size before you use it.
Why does my cutout have a light fringe on a dark background?
A light fringe on a dark background is the old background's color left in the soft edge pixels. The matte gives each edge pixel its own opacity, so a pixel half hair and half white wall keeps some white, which only shows once the cutout sits on something dark. Upload the sharpest, least compressed copy you have, and check the edge at full size before you use it.
Can I crop the cutout or add a shadow before I download it?
Yes, in the page after the run, with no new run: crop to 1:1, 4:5, 9:16 or 16:9, or to a square with padding around the subject, and add a soft shadow, a contact shadow or a reflection. The background stays transparent unless you pick a color, a gradient or a photo of your own, which stays in your browser and is never uploaded.
Why is the edge of my cutout jagged or rough?
A jagged edge usually comes from a small or heavily compressed upload. The matte is worked out at 1024 pixels on a photo up to 1280 pixels on its long edge and at 2048 pixels above that, so a small picture gets a coarser edge, and a JPG saved at low quality carries blocky halos into it. Upload a larger, cleaner copy.
How much does the Transparent background maker cost?
Each run uses 7 credits from your DreamBench plan. Starter, $9.99 a month, includes 1,100 credits a month, about 157 runs of the Transparent background maker, plus AI video. A run that fails is refunded.
Do I need an account to use the Transparent background maker?
Yes: a free account and a DreamBench plan. The tools are part of every plan, from Starter at $9.99 a month.
Which image files does the Transparent background maker take?
A photo up to 40 megabytes: JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC or another format your browser opens. A photo straight from a phone is fine, an iPhone's HEIC included: the page scales a large picture down to 2048 pixels on its long edge before the run, so the result is never larger than the page says.
Can I use what the Transparent background maker makes commercially?
Yes. Under the DreamBench Terms you may use what a tool makes for personal and commercial purposes, including advertising, monetized content and work for clients, with no separate commercial-use upgrade. The Terms don't guarantee copyright in a result or clear another person's rights in your upload, so only use photos you have the rights to.
Is my photo used to train AI?
No. DreamBench doesn't use your prompts, uploads or videos to train or fine-tune AI models, and any future training program would be opt-in.
What happens to my uploaded photo?
It stays in your browser until you make a result. Then it is used to make that result and nothing else, and removed from the tool's storage after seven days along with the result. A result you keep in your library stays as long as you keep it.
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- Guides
How to remove a background on iPhone
Lift a subject off its background in the Photos app, then copy, share or make a sticker.
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The built-in background removal of Word, PowerPoint and Google Slides, and when a PNG is easier.
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Remove a background and save a real transparent PNG on a Mac, in Paint or in PowerPoint, then check it.
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Keep what the Transparent background maker made in your library and open it in the composer as a reference image. DreamBench writes the scenes and renders them on the model you pick, from Seedance 2.5 to Veo 3.1 and Kling 3.0. Rendering uses credits, which come with a plan.