How to Remove the Background on Photos for Free!

As a blogger, learning how to remove the background on photos for FREE was a game changer! I wanted to give you a step-by-step tutorial on how to do this yourself from your phone.

Why would I need to remove the background of a photo?

Removing the background of a photo can come in handy when you are wanting to make a photo a ‘sticker’ and overlay on another photo. Like this for example:

If you are a part of affiliate marketing (rewardstyle, shopstyle, amazon, etc.) you have probably made a collage or two, right? I know how annoying it can be to have to stick with a white background just to add products in a collage!

NOT ANYMORE! You can use this to remove the entire background and make a seamless collage of products that can even overlap each other. Like this for example:

Okay, okay. I hope you get the gist now of how great this is. Most apps I have found cost $5-$100 (canva pro) to remove the background. So finding a solution that was free, I knew I had to share it with the world!

Download the app PicsArt, you can find it in your app store.

When the app opens, you’ll click the plus sign in the middle and select the photo you want to work on.

When your photo loads, slide over on the bottom until you find “cutout”.

For this photo, I am selecting person. But if you are wanting to do a clothing item (or purse in my example) you will select clothes.

This will give a rough cut of what it will keep in red. You can click the recover tool to draw over any area you want to bring back, or erase if you want it to not keep anything selected.

You’ll click the top right to save. If you are satisfied, you will click save again and save to your camera roll.

Now I personally like to use Canva for this next step. I will upload this edited image in Canva and add whatever background I want to it!

More recently, I have liked to add an outline, so I will show you how I did that.

Select the photo, click effects, and find “glow” under the shadows menu. Double click it and it will allow you to change the outline color and transparency. I made mine white and 100% transparency with no blur so it was a solid outline.

I hope this was a helpful tutorial! I have loved being able to remove the background on photos for various scenarios. I share blogging and social media tips here and would love for you to stick around. You can head over to similar posts below.

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