Cutout

What you get, and what the paid ones do

The download is the full-resolution image with a real alpha channel. That is worth saying plainly because the standard move in this category is to show you a good preview and then hand over a small, watermarked version unless you pay — which you discover after doing the work.

There is no watermark here, no reduced resolution, and no account. What the preview shows is what the file contains.

Where it works well and where it struggles

Segmentation is confident about a clear subject against a distinct background — a person, a product on a table, an animal. It is much less confident about fine hair, fur, smoke and anything semi-transparent, which are exactly the cases every background remover is judged on.

Expect a clean edge on a jacket and a rougher one on flyaway hair. If the result is close but the edge is wrong, cropping tighter around the subject before uploading often helps more than any setting, because it removes competing objects the model has to rule out.

Several images at once

Up to five files can be dropped, chosen or pasted together. They are processed one at a time, and that is deliberate rather than a simplification: the model holds a whole image in memory, so five at once would be five times the peak usage for the same total throughput — and the thing that falls over is the server, which affects everyone rather than just the impatient.

Click any finished image to open it in the editor. Your brushwork is kept when you switch between them, so you can refine one, look at another, and come back. A failure on one image does not stop the rest — the next one is often fine, and re-uploading four good files because the third was a landscape is not a reasonable thing to ask.

Changing the background re-runs the whole batch. Leaving four images transparent and one on white would be quietly wrong in a way you might not notice until after you had used them.

Transparent or a solid colour

Transparent is the right default: it keeps every option open, and you can put any background behind it later in anything that understands PNG alpha.

Solid colour is for the case where you already know the destination — a marketplace listing that requires white, a slide deck with a fixed palette. Doing it here rather than afterwards avoids a second round trip through an editor, and avoids the grey-fringe effect you get from flattening a soft edge onto the wrong colour.

Why it says how much it kept

The result reports what proportion of the frame survived. That number is the quickest way to spot a failure: near zero means the model found no subject at all, and near a hundred means it kept nearly everything and removed almost nothing.

Both happen on images with no clear subject — a landscape, a flat pattern, a screenshot — and both look like the tool did nothing. Saying so up front is more useful than letting you squint at a preview trying to work out whether anything changed.

Lift a subject off its background and get a PNG with real transparency, or drop a flat colour behind it. Up to five images at a time, with a brush for the hair and thin edges the model always misses. No watermark, no sign-up, no reduced-resolution preview that asks you to pay for the full one — the file you download is the file it made.

It's one of the free tools in the util.quest collection — nothing to install, and no account needed. Found a bug or want a feature? Reach out at [email protected].