Remove.bg is a website that allows you to upload an image or add a link to an image before it magically removes the background. And all of this happens in 5 seconds or less! I have uploaded a couple of images and it works like a treat.
Call in the Removing Team
The service is free, but only for images of up to .25 megapixels, which is 625 pixels by 400 pixels. Alternatively, there are various subscription services that allow you to upload images up to a whopping 4 megapixels or 2500 pixels by 1600 pixels.
There are a bunch of simple uses for this neat little website, both in the classroom and beyond. For example, earlier this year we opened our first maker space/media lab. Our tech club students wanted to create a community board, which would be made up of portrait photos of each student, plus a background of their choice. So they used remove.bg – with awesome results 🙂
In fact, I also used it to remove background pixels from personality photos of our seniors that I needed to add to the yearbook. I did use it for one of the images, but the lighting in some of the other photos we took was too dark, so remove.bg had a hard time separating the subjects and the background.
Overall, I adore this program for making what can be an onerous task, into a very simple one. Check remove.bg out here.