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Drop in the shot with the extra person. JPG or PNG up to 12 MB, no account needed.
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Remove a Person From a Photo Online
Brush over the person you want gone, erase the selection, then inspect the rebuilt background.
BEFOREAFTERDRAG TO COMPARE
Brush over the complete person and any shadow that belongs to them.
Erasing person
Reading your photo
Erasing the selection
Rebuilding fine detail
BEFOREAFTER
HOW IT WORKS
How to remove a person from a photo
Four steps. The hard part is the brush, not the buttons.
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Paint over them
Cover the person from head to feet, then their shadow and any reflection. Zoom in for hair and shoe edges.
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Erase the selection
The pavement, wall or sky behind them is rebuilt from whatever surrounds your brush.
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Check the spot they stood in
Drag the compare handle across that area, then download at the original resolution.
Facts about this tool
- Input: JPG or PNG, up to 12 MB, one photo per run.
- Output: the same pixel size you uploaded. Nothing is added to the photo.
- Free: 3 edits a day without an account, 6 a day with a free account. The daily edits are shared across all tools.
- Pro: $2.99 a week, $19.99 a year or $59.99 once. No daily limit.
- Where it fails: The background behind a person is invented; the camera never recorded it
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
Remove people from a photo
Remove people from photos free within the daily allowance: 3 edits without an account, or 6 with a free account.
Remove people from the background
Select one person and their shadow at a time. Plain paving, walls and sky are easier to rebuild than railings or overlapping faces.
WHEN THIS WORKS
The photos this handles — and where it struggles
A person comes out cleanly when there is ordinary background behind them, and badly when there is structure.
The passer-by in a travel shot
Someone walked into frame as you pressed the shutter. Pavement, grass and a blurred crowd rebuild well.
A stranger behind your subject
Your subject is untouched as long as the brush stops at their outline. Zoom in before painting near hair.
Someone on plain ground
Sand, water, sky, lawn and asphalt are the easiest fills — the rebuild only has to continue a texture.
A reflection in glass or water
A reflection is ordinary texture to the model. Brush it as a second selection after the person, or it stays behind on its own.
Where it struggles
People overlapping each other, or standing against a fence, tiled floor or brickwork — repeating lines rarely meet up again.
Two real removals
A passer-by in a travel photo
Brushed: the person and their shadow on the pavement. Rebuilt: paving and the wall behind them. Look at: the kerb line where it crosses the patch.
A stranger at the edge of a group
Brushed: the person up to the subject's outline. Rebuilt: the blurred crowd. Look at: the subject's shoulder, untouched.
ALL TOOLS
Every tool, its own page
Daily free edits are shared across all photo tools: 3 without an account, or 6 when signed in.
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Watermarks, people, objects and logos — brush over the target and erase it.
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Background1 tools
Cut the subject out onto a clean transparent or white background.
FAQ
Removing a person: the questions people ask
Can I remove a person standing in front of my subject?
Only where there is background behind them, not another person you want to keep. Where they overlap your subject, the rebuild has to invent the hidden part of the subject — and it will look invented.
How many people can I remove at once?
As many as you can brush into one selection. Results are usually better one at a time: erase, look, then run the next.
Does their shadow go too?
Only if you paint it. A shadow is just more pixels — brush it with the person or it stays behind as evidence someone was there.
Is it free to remove a person from a photo here?
3 edits a day with no account, 6 a day with a free one. No card, no trial, and nothing is added to the file.
Does the photo come back smaller?
No. You get the same pixel dimensions you uploaded, as a full-quality download.
Is it OK to edit someone out of a photo?
It is your photo to edit. Just don’t pass the result off as an unedited record of what happened, and don’t publish someone else’s photo altered.
How does the person remover handle someone behind my subject?
Brush only the person you want removed. Keep your subject outside the selection, then inspect their outline and the repaired background.
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THE RULES
What person removal can and can’t do
Works well on
- Strangers and passers-by in the background of your own photos
- One person standing clear of the subject, on plain ground or a plain wall
- Shadows and reflections — as long as you brush those too
Where it breaks down
- The background behind a person is invented; the camera never recorded it
- Overlapping people, fences, tiles and brickwork rarely rebuild cleanly
- An edited photo is not a record of what happened — don’t present it as one