Remove backgrounds from team photos

Download for Mac

see how it works

Original photo of a man with glasses, taken by an office window

Portrait of a man with glasses, background removed

automatic

Removing background… 3 of 12

automatic

Removing background… 3 of 12

automatic

Removing background… 3 of 12

Mac app
free to start
one look for the whole team
export for LinkedIn, Slack and email

Same photo, one background

The photo you get.
The photo you need.

Taken in his kitchen, kettle and all.

The same man with the background removed, ready for a new background

Background removed on his own Mac.

Portrait of a young woman with long blond hair, background removed

Portrait of a man with dark curly hair, background removed

Portrait of a woman with short grey hair, background removed

Portrait of an older man with grey curly hair, background removed

And the rest of the team on the same background, the same crop, one export.

How it works

From a folder of random photos to one matching team, in four steps.

Drop photos

Drop in the photos

Put the whole team in one folder. Backgrounds are removed automatically.

Pick a background

Choose a preset, match your brand colour, or upload your own.

Fill in body

Retouch

Fix the framing

Fill in missing shoulders and align every face to the same crop.

Export

Export the set

One click exports every photo, at a size that works for LinkedIn, Slack and email.

Good to know

Removing a background is a one-click operation almost everywhere by now. The question worth asking is where that click happens: on your own machine, or on somebody else’s server.

automatic · cloud edits optional

In Aaavatar the background removal runs on your Mac, using the same subject detection Apple builds into macOS. That step stays on the Mac. Only the optional cloud edits send a photo out, and you choose those per photo, which is a different conversation with your security or privacy officer than “everything goes to an API”.

Hair is where every cutout tool is judged. Curls, flyaway strands and hair against a busy background are the hard cases. The on-device pass handles most portraits well; for the difficult ones Aaavatar uses a stronger model it downloads once, and that one runs on your Mac too.

Batch matters more than the individual cutout. Cutting out one person is quick anywhere. Cutting out a set of eighteen and giving them all the same background, crop and export sizes is the actual job.