Choose the right background
- Studio backdrops (grey, white, dark, blue) give portraits and product shots a plain, tidy look. Add a shadow to ground the subject.
- Soft gradients such as peach, mint or lavender work well for profile pictures and social posts.
- Light effects like warm or city lights add mood behind a person without distracting from the face.
- Blur keeps the original scene but softens it, like a camera with a wide aperture. For more control, use the blur background tool.
- Your own picture: any photo from your device, scaled to fill the frame behind the subject.
Tips for a natural result
- Match the light. A subject lit from the left looks most natural on a background that is brighter on the left.
- Use a background with less detail than the subject, so the eye goes to the person or product first.
- For fine details such as hair against a busy original background, check the edges and use Sharper edges or the erase and restore brush.
- For marketplace listings that need pure white, the product photo tool sets the right size and margins.
Change the background without uploading
Many AI background changers send your photo to a server. TidyBG runs the AI model inside your browser, so the photo, the cut-out and the new background all stay on your device. That matters for family photos, ID pictures and unreleased products.