Removing the background from a graphic

Remove background cuts the subject out of the current image and makes everything behind it transparent. You get a PNG with no background — ready to drop onto a poster, a thumbnail, a T-shirt mock-up or a slide.

Find it in the Tools rail on the left of the graphic studio, or just ask Sidekick:

Remove the background
Give me a PNG with no background
Cut out the character

It is a cutout, not a redraw

This is the important part. Removing the background keeps the subject's own pixels exactly as they are. Nothing is redrawn, reinterpreted or re-imagined — the picture you have is the picture you keep, minus the background.

That makes it different from generating again. A new render produces a new picture from a prompt; it cannot edit what is already on screen, so asking for "the same image but with no background" as a render would charge a full render and hand back a different image.

What it costs

Background removal costs 10 credits. A full render costs 50, so cutting out an existing image is much cheaper than trying to generate a new one with a plain background.

You are only charged when it works. If it fails, the credits go back.

Undoing it

The previous image is kept. Open Version history in the Tools rail and restore the earlier version — the background comes back exactly as it was.

When it will not work

You need an image first. On a graphic that has never been generated there is nothing to cut out, and the button stays disabled until you have rendered something.

Very low-contrast subjects — a pale figure against a pale background — can come out with soft or incomplete edges. If the cutout is not clean, restore the previous version from Version history and try rendering the subject against a simpler background first.

Updated on: 21/09/2026