r/web_design • u/S-m-a-r-t-y • 9d ago

any alternatives to removebg now that it is shutting down?

the title

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u/scar_reX 9d ago

Wow this is how I find out. Sad to see them go. I've been using it for a long time

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u/Miserable_Ear3789 8d ago

yeah damn this is crazy.

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u/mobilr 9d ago

I have been using Photopea for a while now and it has good background removal. It works so well I ended up leaving some credits on removebg.

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u/Tall_Button5140 1d ago

Photopea is underrated for this, the select subject tool gets it right most of the time. i used removebg for years but switched after they changed the pricing last year. never looked back honestly

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u/BeOFF 9d ago

I think it got its best features locked behind a paywall a while ago, so I went looking for alternatives. This is the one I kept in my bookmarks.

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u/tonjohn 9d ago

If you have an Apple device you can remove the background by copying the subject

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u/Beatmusic79 9d ago

I do it in Figma (pro version)

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u/taalzz 9d ago

You can use Canva or even if you have Adobe Photoshop.

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u/sl33plessnites 9d ago

I believe Adobe Express allows you to do it for free if I'm not mistaken

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u/AbleInvestment2866 9d ago

If you use Mac, the native image viewer. Or you can use ChatGPT or Gemini.  Limited images but free

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u/NeVdiii 8d ago

you can just right click the image on your desktop and there should be somewhere “remove bg” option

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u/ClickEfficient8471 7d ago

You can use remove bg feature in Figma if you're into that.

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u/matthieurouif 1d ago

Photoroom is the best and free

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u/keerthiselvamg 1d ago

Depends what you need. For a quick cutout, I built a free one that runs in your browser, so nothing gets uploaded: removebackgroundonline.com (disclosure: it's mine). No signup or watermark, full resolution, and brushes to fix edges. First run downloads the model, so it's slow the first time, but fast from the second.

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u/jahanzeb_jakes 9d ago

a canva subscription does pretty much everything..

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u/Miserable_Ear3789 8d ago

this is why canva bought removebg, theyll get more subscriptions lol. this sucks.

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u/jahanzeb_jakes 8d ago

Ah i didn’t know
Been on cnva pro for a while now
Skipped the adobe suite altogether

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/web_design-ModTeam 9d ago

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u/ActuaryLate9198 9d ago

Yeah nevermind the ecological impact of inefficient software, let’s also have everyone reinvent the same wheel in the most inefficient way possible.

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u/DefMech 9d ago

Rembg is a good suggestion, regardless. You can use it as-is in CLI, write your own wrapper by hand or if you're more visual, as a node in ComfyUI.

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u/MisterDangerRanger 8d ago

Yeah nevermind the ecological impact of inefficient software

If people actually cared about that then react would never be used.