There are many reasons why you would like to remove the background of a certain picture and add your own.
Being an AI-powered tool means that not all the results will necessarily meet your expectations. Depending on the foreground image and the background to be removed, getting rid of the background is, in some cases, a tedious task that requires certain expertise and a great deal of manual effort. Think of a person's long hair waving in the wind or think of a background made up of not very uniform colors and shapes, and you'll know what I mean. AI-powered solutions of this kind work well only under certain circumstances. The results are usually more satisfactory than others performed also in an automated way by other tools, but there are still nuances that no AI-powered software solution has fathomed yet.
Therefore, you are advised to use photographs with a clear foreground image (a person, an animal, a big object, etc.), and to use this tool with backgrounds as uniform as possible. The more clearly defined are the boundaries of the object in the foreground, the better the results will be.
The program's free download for Windows is actually of not much use when it comes to see how real the magic is behind remove.bg. Instead, you can rely on the website's free service to test the tool with different foregrounds and backgrounds and see if it really fits your needs. You can upload up to 50 images and see their background—in most instances—neatly removed in no time. These low-resolution images are free for you to use, as long as you don't exceed that number per month.
If you require high-resolution PNG images either with a transparent background or with the background of your choice, you can buy individual 'credits' (from one to as many thousands of pictures as you need) or packages ranging from 40 to thousands of monthly credits that can be carried over to the next month if not used in full. Either way, remove.bg is a state-of-the-art option for image background removal and substitution. AI is here to stay, so why shouldn't we try to make the most of it?
Pros
- Takes only 5 seconds to remove the background
- Saves your PNG images in high resolution
- Offers 50 free low-resolution images per month
Cons
- Trial version is heavily limited
- Works well only under specific foreground and background requirements