How to easily remove the background from an image on Mac

From time to time you may find yourself in a situation where you need to quickly remove the background from an image within macOS. There are a ton of programs in which you can easily remove the background of images, such as Photoshop and others, however, most of these graphics programs are paid. If you only need to remove the background from an image occasionally, you will most likely not subscribe to any graphics programs. What might interest you even more is that you can easily remove the background from an image in macOS in the native Preview app. Let's see how to do it together in this article.

How to easily remove the background from an image on Mac

If you want to simply remove the background from an image on your Mac or MacBook, all you have to do is follow these steps:

• First, of course, you need to open the image for which you want to remove the background in a native application Preview.
• Once you have done so, click on the icon in the top bar of the application Annotation (pencil icon).
• Clicking this icon will display all available image editing tools.
• Among these tools, you are interested in the tool called Instant alpha channel. It is the second tool from the left and has magic wand icon.
• Click tool choose, and then drag it along part of the picture, which you want remove, so after background.
• The part of the image that will be deleted after confirmation will be marked red.
• After you have the entire background selected, the tool let go Tedy raise your finger from a mouse or trackpad.
• When launched, the entire section you selected mark as selection.
• Now press the button on the keyboard backspace, making the selection (background) removes
• If you edited the image in a format other than PNG, a notification about the possibility will appear transfer, which confirm.
• Finally, a picture is enough save by closing possibly you can export using a card File.

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In the procedure above, I mentioned that the image needs to be converted to PNG format. It should be noted that only this format is capable of transparency. If you were to save the image in JPG again, the transparent area would become white again. Either convert the image before editing, or confirm the conversion to PNG after editing. Removing the background within the Preview application is very simple, but of course it is necessary that the background is easily distinguishable from the foreground of the image. Problems can also arise if you want to remove the background of the hair. In addition, the option to remove the background using Preview is safer compared to various internet applications, as it takes place locally and not somewhere on a remote server.