The single cheapest way to improve a generation
Background Removal
A cluttered background is the most common cause of a bad reconstruction. Cutting the subject out before it is submitted costs almost nothing and changes the result more than any other setting.
What it does
Isolates the subject
A transparent cut-out, so the model reconstructs what you photographed rather than what happened to be behind it.
Runs where it matters
Available on its own, and on by default in AI Texturing — where a backdrop’s colours would otherwise bleed into the inferred material.
Fixes the classic failure
The floor rendered as part of the object, a shadow becoming geometry, a wall fused to the subject’s back. All the same cause.
How it works
- Start with your photographWhatever you were going to submit.
- Remove the backgroundA transparent PNG comes back.
- Check the edgesHair, foliage and glass are where cut-outs fail, and they are worth a glance before you spend a generation on them.
- GenerateThe same prompt and the same model, on an image with nothing to misread.
What people use it for
- Preparing a phone photograph for image-to-3D
- Cleaning a set of reference views so they agree with each other
- Preparing a reference image for retexturing
- Producing product cut-outs from studio shots
What it cannot do
- Fine detail at the edge — hair, fur, foliage — is where any cut-out struggles
- Transparent and reflective subjects have no clear boundary to find
- It removes the background; it does not remove the lighting the background caused
The details
- Output
- Transparent PNG
- In texturing
- On by default
- Best for
- Photographs with a single clear subject