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How to take the background off a photo

Select the picture and choose Edit › Take the background off a photo. Set Tolerance and Soften, check how much is taken away, and press Take it off.

Steps

  1. Select the picture.

  2. Choose Main menu › Edit › Take the background off a photo.

  3. Set Tolerance (how different from the edge color a pixel must be to stay) and Soften (the edge blur). Keep the background instead does the opposite.

  4. Read Taken away and What is left under the settings.

    Take the background off: the preview on a checkerboard, 98% taken away.Take the background off: the preview on a checkerboard, 98% taken away.

  5. Press Take it off. The picture is replaced where it sits, trimmed to what is left.

    The structure drawing with its white background gone.The structure drawing with its white background gone.

Tip

The background is found by flooding in from the edges of the photo, so a subject that touches the frame is cut into. Leave a margin around it.

Figures, diagrams and documentsHow to add a picture or file to the pageChoose Insert › Upload a file and pick the file. A picture is placed on the page and listed in Layers by its file name.

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Last updated Nov 12, 2026