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Background colour

Change your image background color

Swap whatever is behind your subject for a flat colour — pure white for a marketplace listing, a brand shade for a deck, a deep grey for a headshot. The cutout is automatic, the colour is a click or a hex code, and the file comes back at the resolution you started with.

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  • Pure white

    #FFFFFF

  • Brand gradient

    #007CF0 → #FF0080

  • No background

    Alpha PNG

Swatches and hex

Pick a colour, or type the hex you need

Ten swatches cover the fills people reach for most — the neutral ladder for product photography, and the accents for social and ads. Next to them is a colour picker that takes any hex value, so a brand colour goes in exactly as specified rather than approximately.

The fill is applied live to the image on screen at full size, not to a thumbnail, so what you are judging is what you will download.

  • Pure white

    #FFFFFF

  • Off white

    #FAFAFA

  • Light grey

    #F2F2F2

  • Mid grey

    #8F8F8F

  • Ink

    #171717

  • Blue

    #0070F3

  • Violet

    #7928CA

  • Pink

    #FF0080

  • Cyan

    #50E3C2

  • Amber

    #F9CB28

Anything outside that ten goes in through the custom field as a six-digit hex. There is no palette limit and no premium colour tier — the fill is afillRect on a canvas in your own browser, which costs nobody anything.

Marketplace

The white that marketplaces actually require

“White” is not a judgement call on a product listing. Amazon wants pure white — RGB 255, 255, 255 — and a near-white from a lightbox will not pass. These presets set the fill, the canvas size and the padding together, so the file is to spec without you measuring anything.

Background colour, canvas size and padding for each marketplace export preset
PresetCanvasBackgroundPadding
Amazon2000 × 2000#FFFFFF7%
eBay1600 × 1600#FFFFFF5%
Shopify2048 × 2048#FFFFFF6%
Etsy2000 × 2000#FFFFFF6%
Passport600 × 600#FFFFFF8%

LinkedIn’s 1128 × 1128 preset is in the editor too. It sets the canvas but leaves the fill to you, because a profile photo on pure white reads as a passport document rather than a headshot.

Edges

Why a flat colour shows up every bad edge

A busy replacement background hides a rough cutout. A solid fill does the opposite: the moment the old background was, say, warm beige and the new one is pure white, every pixel that was half beige reads as a grubby outline around the subject. That halo is not a bug in the mask — it is the pixels where the old scene and the subject genuinely mixed.

Four controls deal with it, and none of them re-runs the model, so the picture updates as you drag.

  • Cutout sensitivity

    0 – 100

    Moves the threshold between subject and background. Raise it when a dark jacket is being eaten; lower it when a pale wall is surviving around the shoulders.

  • Feather

    0 – 12 px

    Softens the matte edge. Half a pixel is enough for a crisp product shot; two or three suits a portrait, where a razor edge is the thing that looks fake.

  • Shrink / grow

    −50 – +50

    Pulls the matte inwards or pushes it out. Shrinking a few steps is the direct fix for a halo, because it discards the pixels that were half old background to begin with.

  • Refine brush

    4 – 200 px

    Restore or erase the matte by hand where the model was wrong — the only thing that reliably rescues wispy hair against a busy backdrop.

The default already leans on this: the matte ships shrunk by six steps, because a hairline of the old background is the single most common complaint about an automatic cutout on a white fill.

Alternatives

When a solid colour isn’t the right answer

A flat fill is right for a catalogue and wrong for a portrait, where it makes the subject look pasted on. Three other options sit next to it in the same panel.

Gradient
Two stops drawn corner to corner. Six presets, and the same six are the brand-accent pairs used across this site — useful for ad creative and social, where flat white looks like a mistake.
Blur
Keeps the original scene and defocuses it, 2 px to 60 px. This is the honest choice for a headshot: the light on the subject still matches the room behind them, because it is the same room.
Your own image
Any PNG, JPG, WebP or AVIF, drawn to cover the frame. It loads from your disk into the same tab, so a background plate stays as private as the photo.
Nothing at all
Export a PNG or WebP with a real alpha channel and place it over whatever you like later. JPG has no alpha, so a transparent export saved as JPG lands on white rather than silently going black.

  • Blue to cyan

  • Violet to pink

  • Red to amber

  • Soft grey

  • Charcoal

  • Pale blue

At volume

One colour across a whole folder

Changing the background colour of one photo is a minute’s work anywhere. The reason people end up paying for it is the other ninety-nine. Here the queue takes as many files as you drop on it, the background you set applies to all of them, and the finished set downloads as a single ZIP — so a catalogue re-shoot costs the time it takes your laptop to run, and nothing else.

That is a direct consequence of where the work happens. A hosted tool has to charge per image because each one occupies a server; this one runs on hardware you already own, so the hundredth image is free for exactly the same reason the first one is.

The step-by-step guide to changing an image background walks through the whole sequence, and the comparison with remove.bg and Canva has the per-image numbers.

Drop an image. Keep the pixels.

No account, no credits, no downscaled preview. Just the file you meant to make.

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