Cut out silhouette
Pull the subject's outline away from the rest of the scene.
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Silhouette, mask and transparent background
A silhouette is an object's shape without its inside: the shadow it would cast. This tool finds the main subject and returns that shape filled with a flat colour on a transparent background, which is what a stencil, a sticker, a pictogram or a cutting template needs.
It isn't the same as removing the background. There you keep the photograph and lose what's behind it; here you lose the photograph too and keep only the outline. If you want your subject cut out with its own colours, the tool you want is remove background.
The other output is the mask: the black and white the model computed, exactly as it came out. In an image editor it works as a layer mask, and from there you can crop, blur or fill anything you like with the control that working in layers gives you.
Colour and cropping are applied in your own browser from that mask, so trying fills costs no waiting at all: the image is uploaded once.
Common questions
- How is this different from removing the background?
- Removing the background keeps your photo and erases what's behind it. The silhouette discards the photo too and leaves only the shape, filled with a colour. Two different results from the same analysis.
- What is the mask download for?
- To use as a layer mask in Photoshop, GIMP, Affinity or After Effects. It gives you the model's cut with an editor's control, instead of a result that's already closed.
- Can I get the silhouette as an SVG?
- Not yet. An SVG describes curves, and turning this shape into curves means vectorising it, which is a separate operation. A clean silhouette is exactly the right starting point for it.
- Why does the silhouette have ragged edges?
- Because the mask inherits the model's uncertainty. Around hair, transparency or low contrast between subject and background the boundary really is fuzzy, and a flat fill makes that more obvious than a cut-out photo would.