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Improve focus with background removal.
Work smarter with AI.
Detect backgrounds and subjects with a little help from artificial intelligence. Adobe Sensei-powered tools act as a transparent background maker by automatically removing backgrounds in the Layers panel. Adjustable sliders let you control elements like contrast, edge smoothness and obscurity.
Expand your brand.
Showcase your style and boost brand identity by using transparent background images. You can place your isolated subjects, logos and more onto website banners, email signatures, digital ads and social media posts, which are common use cases in India’s growing digital design space.
Mask up.
Use mask layers to hide and reveal selected portions of your background — nondestructively. (That means without deleting any pixels, so you get as many re-lwork as you need.) Expand your selection area (the portion of an image defined for editing) or remove an unwanted background to further refine the image and create a transparent background.
Go global.
Tap into global refinement sliders to smooth and feather the edges of your image. This improves image contrast and sharpness to ensure that the details of your subject aren’t lost as you make the background transparent or convert it into a transparent image.
Different tools for different jobs.
If your image is especially busy or complicated, add extra editing control with precision tools. Whether you're working on transparent images for packaging, digital catalogues or social media creatives, Photoshop offers the precision your project demands.
Get close to the edge with the Quick Selection tool.
Quickly "paint" a selection with a fully customisable round brush tip with the help of the Quick Selection Tool. As you drag, the selection expands and automatically locates defined edges for easier editing, helping you make image backgrounds transparent with greater precision.
Transform your image with the Magic Wand.
Make a solid colour background transparent with one click of the Magic wand tool. Just click any part of an image and all other pixels of the same colour in the image will be selected. Then, you can mask or hide those areas to create a transparent image background.
Round up your edges with the Lasso.
Use your mouse or stylus to draw freehand selection borders using the Lasso tool. No need to worry about accuracy — you can easily add and subtract from the selections to clean up the edges and remove the background to make the image transparent.
Zero in with the Refine Edge tool.
Use Refine Edge to fine-tune rough or smooth edges of selections you made with the various selection tools. For detailed photos with complex edges, the Refine Brush Edge allows you to brush over certain areas to tell Photoshop where to improve the edge. This is especially helpful when trying to make a background transparent in intricate images.
How to make a background transparent in Photoshop.
Follow this step-by-step guide to isolate your subjects as you create a transparent background in Photoshop. Or make your background disappear entirely with AI-powered tools like Remove Background. These steps are ideal whether you’re working on images for e-commerce listings, presentations, or branding materials.
- Open it:
Upload or drag and drop your image file into Photoshop and then click › Window › Layers. - Duplicate it:
Press Control+A (on a PC) or Command+A (on a Mac) to select the entire image, then Control/Command+C to make a copy of the original image and finally Control/Command+V to paste it on a new layer. - Hide it:
In the Layers palette that appears on the right side of your image, click the eye icon to hide the background layer. - Remove it:
In the Properties panel, click Quick Actions › Remove Background. - Save it:
After Adobe Sensei analyses the image and removes the background, save as a PSD (Photoshop) or PNG file to keep the transparent background. - Tip: You can take a sneak peek at the layer mask by holding down Alt on Windows or Option on Mac and clicking the layer’s thumbnail.
Popular use cases for transparent backgrounds.
Transparent backgrounds are widely used across industries and creative fields. Whether you're preparing clean product photos for marketplaces like Flipkart or Amazon, designing social media creatives, or creating promotional banners for online ads, removing the background helps your subject stand out. Transparent images are also commonly used in:
- E-commerce listings to highlight products against dynamic or seasonal backgrounds
- Instagram reels, YouTube thumbnails and short video edits
- Online ID cards, certificates and student portfolios
- Marketing materials like brochures, flyers and event graphics
- Personal branding for job portals, CVs or digital business cards
- Creating a transparent background gives you flexibility to reuse your image in multiple formats without design constraints.
Discover more tools to up your edits.
Expand your image editing horizons with these helpful Photoshop tutorials.
Understand layers.
Discover what layers in Photoshop are, what they’re good for, and how to use them.
Be selective.
Learn how to create a selection and refine it, plus discover other popular selection tools.
Create composite photos.
It’s easier than you think to combine multiple photos to make dazzling new images.
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Replace backgrounds.
With a Photoshop transparent background, you can quickly give new life to your images.
Questions? We have answers.
You can create a script that takes a set of images and applies specific actions, including making backgrounds transparent, to all of them. To run this script, use the File > Scripts > Browse… menu in Photoshop and select the script file. This way you can save time and effort in making multiple backgrounds transparent without manually performing the task on each image.
