Image editing
Remove White Background
Turn the white background of a logo, signature or scan transparent — nothing is uploaded.
The checkerboard shows which areas are transparent.
Higher values also remove light gray shadows and paper texture.
Options
Fades pixels just above the tolerance into partial transparency so edges look smooth instead of jagged.
Works best for solid light backgrounds; complex photo backgrounds need an AI cutout tool.
Processed on your device — nothing is sent anywhere.
Works in your browser. No account needed.
Frequently asked questions
Why did white parts inside my logo disappear too?
The tool removes every pixel close to white, wherever it is — it does not know which white is background and which belongs to the design. White lettering, the whites of eyes or a white fill inside a shape become transparent along with the background. Lower the tolerance as far as you can while the background still goes; if the design itself contains pure white, you will need to refill those areas in an editor afterwards or use a cutout tool that selects the background by region.
What tolerance should I use?
It measures how far a pixel’s color may be from pure white and still be removed, from 0 to 180. The default of 40 removes clean digital white and very light gray such as #EEEEEE. Scans and phone photos of paper are usually gray rather than white — around #D0D0D0 to #E0E0E0 — and need roughly 60 to 90. Increase it a few steps at a time and stop as soon as the background is gone.
Why does my logo have a white halo or rough edge?
Smooth edges are made of in-between pixels that blend the logo color with white. Those pixels are too dark to be removed and too light to look clean on a dark background, so they show as a pale fringe. Raise Edge softening under Options: pixels just beyond the tolerance are made partly transparent in proportion to how close they are to white, so the edge fades out smoothly.
How do I make my signature transparent for a document?
Sign in dark ink on plain white paper, then scan it or photograph it straight on in even daylight with no shadow across the page. Drop the image here and raise the tolerance until the gray paper vanishes and only the ink remains — usually 70 to 100 for a phone photo. Download the PNG and place it on the PDF or document; it sits on the signature line without a white box.
Does it work on photos or colored backgrounds?
Only white and near-white backgrounds are removed. A blue studio backdrop, a green screen, or a person photographed in a room will not be separated from the background — those need an AI background remover. The tool is designed for logos, signatures, stamps, line art, clip art, icons and scanned drawings on white.
Can I download a JPG instead of a PNG?
No, because JPG cannot store transparency — the transparent areas would turn back into a solid color. The download is always a PNG at the original pixel size. If a site insists on JPG, the image cannot be transparent there anyway; WebP and PNG are the common web formats that keep transparency.
About this tool
This tool turns the white background of an image transparent and saves the result as a PNG. It is built for graphics on a plain light background: a logo exported with a white box, a scanned signature or stamp, a hand drawing, line art or clip art. Drop the image in and the checkerboard behind the preview shows exactly what has become transparent; the line under it reports what percentage of pixels are now fully transparent, which is a quick sanity check: a small logo on a large white canvas should show a high percentage, and a sudden jump as you raise the tolerance means the subject itself has started to disappear.
How it decides: each pixel’s color is compared with pure white as a distance in red, green and blue. Pixels closer than the tolerance become fully transparent. With Edge softening on, pixels just beyond the tolerance become partly transparent — the closer to white, the more transparent — which is what removes the pale halo around anti-aliased edges. Some reference points: #F5F5F5 is about 17 away from white, #E0E0E0 about 54, #CCCCCC about 88, and mid gray #808080 about 220, beyond the slider’s maximum of 180, so dark and mid-tone parts of a design are never removed.
For the cleanest result, start from the largest, sharpest source you have — a large PNG export of a logo rather than a screenshot or a heavily compressed JPG, whose blocky artifacts around edges survive as specks. Keep tolerance as low as possible, then add edge softening a little at a time and judge the edge against a dark color, where a halo shows most. For scans, raising the contrast or brightness of the paper first lets you use a lower tolerance and keeps pale ink strokes intact.
Everything runs on your own device in the browser; the image is never uploaded, which matters for signatures and unreleased brand assets. The honest limit is in the name: this removes white. For photographs of people or products on busy or colored backgrounds, an AI cutout tool is the right choice.