Transparent Object Cutout

A see-through object shows the old background

Anything transparent is hard to separate from a background, because the background is visible through it: clear plastic, glass, a veil, packaging. In this example a man laughs in a transparent hooded poncho over a bright yellow hoodie at a rainy music festival. Mud, bunting and a tent show through the plastic, and drops of water sit on the hood. A simple cutout either turns the poncho into a solid shape or erases it and leaves a hoodie floating in the air.

Who uses this

• People making a scrapbook, travel journal or collage page from their own snapshots
• Anyone who wants a festival or hiking photo on a colored background for a poster or a card
• Sellers of rainwear, glassware, packaging and other see-through items who need the item to look transparent on a new background

How the edit is handled

A human editor, with AI tools assisting where they help, removes the field and replaces it with a flat deep purple. The poncho is kept see-through: the new color shows faintly through the plastic, the yellow hoodie and its drawstrings stay visible, and the water-drop highlights are kept so the plastic still reads as wet.

The greenish brown of the mud that showed through the plastic is taken out, and what appears there is an estimate of how the new color would look behind the plastic, not a record of the original scene. The face is compared with the original at full size. Other transparent things, such as a glass, a bottle or a veil, are handled the same way. Curved glass bends what is behind it, so on a new background that bending is an estimate too.

What to upload

Send the original photo, tell us what the transparent part is, and say the color or the page it will go on. If you want to try several colors, list them so the edge of the plastic can be checked on each.

Private: recreated on our own images, not customer photos

The before/after shown here is recreated on images created or licensed for this site — never a real customer's photo. Your upload is seen only by the editor working on it, and the edit comes with free revisions within 14 days of delivery if anything needs adjusting.