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FlipMyFile

Image tool

Remove the background from an image

Drop in a photo and get the subject back on a transparent background, or on any solid colour you pick. No account, no watermark, and the full-resolution file is free to download — which is the part most tools quietly charge for.

  • 100% free
  • No signup
  • Batch convert

Drop your files here

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Supports JPG, PNG, WEBP · Max 25 MB per file · Up to 100 files

You can also paste a copied image with Ctrl+V / ⌘V

Your files are secure and privateDeleted automatically after conversion. We never look at or share your data.

Conversion settings

What replaces the background

Transparent keeps a cut-out you can drop onto anything. Marketplaces almost always want plain white instead.

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A little blur on the cut edge hides the stair-stepping. Raise it for hair and fur, drop it to 0 for hard-edged products.

Input, output and limits

Every figure below is read from the same configuration the server enforces, so this page cannot promise a limit the system will refuse.

Input formats
JPG, PNG, WebPWhat is JPG?What is PNG?What is WebP?
Output format
PNGWhat is PNG?
Maximum file size
25 MB per file
Maximum resolution
40 megapixels (about 6,325 × 6,325 pixels)
Batch processing
Yes — several files at once, downloaded as one ZIP
Price
Free, with no account and no watermark
Processing
On our own server, then deleted automatically
Engine
U²-Net (Apache 2.0) on ONNX Runtime
File retention
Upload and result both deleted after 24 hours

Output quality

The subject is separated using U²-Net, an open-source segmentation model, and the mask it produces is scaled from 320×320 back to your original dimensions — so the cut-out is exactly as large as the photo you gave us, with no downscaling. That upscaling step is also the honest limit of this tool: edges are smooth and accurate on defined boundaries, and softer than a paid studio service on flyaway hair. Your original pixels are never re-encoded inside the subject; the only thing added is an alpha channel. PNG output is lossless and often several megabytes, while WebP carries the same transparency at roughly a fifth of the size, which is usually the better choice for anything going on a web page.

See what this tool actually did to real files — median size change, speed and sample size, published whichever way the numbers fall.

Common use cases

  • Product photos for a marketplace listing

    Amazon, Etsy and eBay all want the product on plain white. Choose white as the background and the result is ready to upload, with no editor in between.

  • A profile picture or team page

    A transparent cut-out drops onto any brand colour or layout without a rectangle of someone else's wall around it.

  • Putting a subject onto a different backdrop

    Export as PNG with transparency and composite it wherever you like. The alpha channel survives into any editor.

  • Cleaning up a photo before printing

    A distracting background removed and replaced with white often matters more to how a printed piece reads than any amount of colour correction.

Settings you can change

  • What replaces the background

    Default: transparent.

    Transparent keeps a cut-out you can drop onto anything. Marketplaces almost always want plain white instead.

  • Edge softening

    From 0 to 5, default 1.

    A little blur on the cut edge hides the stair-stepping. Raise it for hair and fur, drop it to 0 for hard-edged products.

  • Output format

    PNG — works everywhere · WebP — same transparency, much smaller

Troubleshooting

The whole image came back transparent
The model found no subject it was confident about — usually a landscape, a texture, or a crowd with no single focus. This tool needs one clear subject; there is no setting that changes that.
Nothing appears to have been removed
The opposite case: the model read almost the entire frame as the subject, which happens when the background is very close in colour or the subject fills the frame. Crop in tighter around the subject and try again.
The edges look jagged or have a halo
Raise the edge softening a step or two. The mask is generated small and scaled up, so a hard edge shows the stair-stepping; a pixel or two of blur hides it. For hard-edged products, going the other way to 0 is sharper.
Part of the subject was cut away
Usually a limb or an object that is much darker than the rest, or overlapping something the same colour. Increasing the contrast between subject and background before uploading helps more than any option here.
The PNG is enormous
PNG stores transparency losslessly and a large photo will be several megabytes. Switch the output to WebP — same transparency, typically about a fifth of the size.

Something else went wrong? Tell us what happened — a person reads every report, and that is how this list gets longer.

Privacy and file deletion

  • Stored under a random nameUploads have no connection to the file name you sent and are never served from a public directory. This tool accepts files up to 25 MB, several at a time.
  • Deleted on a timerUploads are removed within 2 hours and finished results within 24 hours, whichever comes first.
  • Nobody looks at themNo one browses uploads, nothing is shared with third parties, and no file is used to train anything. The only thing kept past deletion is the size and timing of the job.
  • Encrypted in transitEvery request runs over HTTPS, so the file is encrypted between your device and our server.

Full privacy policyHow the system is builtWhat we measure, and why it is kept

Frequently asked questions

Browse image tools
  • Is the full-resolution result really free?

    Yes. This is where most background removers actually make their money: the preview is free, and the file you can use costs a subscription or arrives at a quarter of the size with a watermark across it. Here you get the same resolution you uploaded, unmarked, without an account.

  • How well does it handle hair and fur?

    Reasonably, not perfectly. The model produces a mask at 320×320 which is then scaled back up to your image, so individual strands come out softer than the studio-grade paid services manage. Raising the edge softening helps it blend; for a product shot with clean edges, set softening to 0 and it will be crisp.

  • What kinds of image work best?

    Anything with one clear subject against a background it does not blend into — people, products, animals, objects on a table. It struggles when there is no obvious subject at all (landscapes, patterns, crowds) or when the subject is the same colour as what is behind it. If the result looks wrong, that is almost always why.

  • Do you upload my photo?

    Yes, and this one is different from our PDF tools. The model is a 176 MB file, which is not something anyone should have to download to edit one photo, so it runs on our server instead. Your image is stored under a random name and deleted automatically, and nobody looks at it.

  • Can I do several photos at once?

    Yes — drop in a batch and take the results as a ZIP. They are processed one at a time rather than in parallel, so a batch of ten takes around twenty seconds rather than two.

  • What happens to the images I upload in a batch?

    Files up to 25 MB are accepted, and a batch is handled as separate jobs that are zipped together at the end. Every upload is stored under a random name, never served from a public folder, and deleted 24 hours after the job starts — the finished file goes at the same moment. We never share them and there is no account they could be tied to. The one thing we do is compare the original against the result in our own admin area, to be sure the compression has not softened the picture.

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