What does a background actually give away?

The place, usually more precisely than you meant: a house number or a street sign in the corner, a shop front, a company or school logo, a colleague at the next desk, a monitor or a whiteboard, the label on a parcel by the door. The guide below walks through what to look for before you post.

Cut it out, blur it, or replace it — which one?

Cut it out when the background is irrelevant and you want a transparent PNG to drop onto something else. Blur it when the photo should still look like a photo of a real place. Fill it with a flat color when the room is a distraction, or when a listing wants a clean white background. The comparison guide takes all three apart.

Can I keep one person and hide another?

Not with this. The subject is found as a single mask, so two people standing at different depths are either both subject or both background, and the mask decides that, not you. To hide one specific person in an otherwise untouched photo, draw a region over them instead — that's what Blur part of an image is for.

Does it work on a product, a car, or a pet?

Yes. The mask is not face-specific — it finds whatever the photo is obviously of. A product photo cut out onto a white background is the same operation as a portrait with the room removed behind it.

Is anything of the original background left in the file?

No. The export is a destructive re-encode, not a filter layered over an intact original: cut out and those pixels are transparent, filled and they are flat color, blurred and what is written into the file is the blur. Keep your own copy if you might want the room back.

Do you keep the photo?

No. It's uploaded to private encrypted storage, processed on Blurify's own servers rather than a third-party background service, and deleted within an hour. No account, no watermark, and the download carries no EXIF or GPS.

Hide the background in a photo — cut, blur or fill

Open the editor How it works

Two people playing chess stay sharp while the park behind them is blurred past reading — Blurify result — The subject is found as one mask: the two players keep their detail, the park behind them stops being a place you could name.Photo · Wikimedia Commons, CC0

Two people playing chess stay sharp while the park behind them is blurred past reading — original — The subject is found as one mask: the two players keep their detail, the park behind them stops being a place you could name.Photo · Wikimedia Commons, CC0

How it works for backdrop.

Drop the photo
JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC/HEIF — up to 20 MB each, up to 20 photos per batch. Nothing to trace by hand and nothing to install.
The subject separates from everything else
One mask, found automatically: a person, a product, a car, a pet. Hair and thin edges survive it. Everything outside that mask is what this page is about.
Cut, blur, or fill — then export
Remove gives you a transparent PNG (or lossless WebP). Blur keeps the scene but makes it unreadable. Color puts any hex color in behind the subject. Full original resolution, EXIF and GPS stripped.

Questions, honestly answered.

What does a background actually give away?: The place, usually more precisely than you meant: a house number or a street sign in the corner, a shop front, a company or school logo, a colleague at the next desk, a monitor or a whiteboard, the label on a parcel by the door. The guide below walks through what to look for before you post.
Cut it out, blur it, or replace it — which one?: Cut it out when the background is irrelevant and you want a transparent PNG to drop onto something else. Blur it when the photo should still look like a photo of a real place. Fill it with a flat color when the room is a distraction, or when a listing wants a clean white background. The comparison guide takes all three apart.
Can I keep one person and hide another?: Not with this. The subject is found as a single mask, so two people standing at different depths are either both subject or both background, and the mask decides that, not you. To hide one specific person in an otherwise untouched photo, draw a region over them instead — that's what Blur part of an image is for.
Does it work on a product, a car, or a pet?: Yes. The mask is not face-specific — it finds whatever the photo is obviously of. A product photo cut out onto a white background is the same operation as a portrait with the room removed behind it.
Is anything of the original background left in the file?: No. The export is a destructive re-encode, not a filter layered over an intact original: cut out and those pixels are transparent, filled and they are flat color, blurred and what is written into the file is the blur. Keep your own copy if you might want the room back.
Do you keep the photo?: No. It's uploaded to private encrypted storage, processed on Blurify's own servers rather than a third-party background service, and deleted within an hour. No account, no watermark, and the download carries no EXIF or GPS.