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Background changer

Keep the subject. Change the background behind it.

The cutout does not move. What sits behind it is yours to choose — a plain colour, a scene from the library, or a backdrop of your own that you reuse across a whole batch.

Previews are free and unmetered. Exports cost one credit each — from £2.66for 3.

A red 1966 Ford Fairlane cut out from its original photograph, shown against a background you can change

Three kinds of background

Pick the one the picture is for

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Solid colour

White for marketplaces, your brand colour for advertising. A flat field has no lighting of its own, so it can never contradict the subject’s.

A coastal road curving along a hillside above the sea at sunset

A stock scene

A studio wall, a city street, a coast road. Good for lifestyle and secondary listing images — and prohibited on most marketplace main images, so keep them separate.

A white SUV on display inside a bright modern dealership showroom

Your own backdrop

Your showroom, your set, your studio wall. Upload once, apply to every photograph, and a forecourt batch starts looking like one indoor shoot.

Scene photographs by Vlada Karpovich and Abdullah K on Pexels. Every photographer is named onCredits.

Making it convincing

Two things give a composite away

Neither of them is the quality of the cutout.

Light direction

If the subject is lit from the left and the new scene is lit from the right, every viewer registers that something is wrong before they can say what. Choose a backdrop whose light runs the same way as the subject’s — it is a filter on which scenes work, not a step you perform.

The contact shadow

A subject with no shadow does not sit on the ground; it hovers over it. Even a small, hard shadow directly beneath where the subject meets the surface is enough to land it, and it is the single highest-return adjustment in the whole composite.

Questions about this tool

Why does a swapped background sometimes look fake?

Two things give it away, and neither is the cutout. The light direction does not match — the subject is lit from the left, the new scene from the right — and there is no contact shadow where the subject meets the surface. Fix those two and most people cannot tell.

Can I use my own backdrop image?

Yes. Upload a backdrop once and reuse it across every photograph you process, which is how dealerships and studios get a whole batch looking like one shoot on one set.

Are the stock backgrounds licensed for commercial use?

The scenes in the library are Pexels photographs, free for commercial use. Every photographer is named on our Credits page. If you need certainty for a specific commercial campaign, use your own backdrop.

Will the subject be resized to fit the scene?

Only if you ask. By default the subject keeps its position and scale and the background is fitted behind it, because moving the subject is the fastest way to break the perspective.

Can I put a subject on a plain colour rather than a photograph?

Yes — any hex value, including your brand colour. A flat colour field is often the better choice for advertising, because it has no lighting of its own to contradict the subject’s.

The other three

Same engine, different last step.

One credit, one full-resolution export. Previews never cost anything and are never rate-limited, because they run on your machine. Every credit expires 90 days from the day it is granted — pay-as-you-go and subscription alike. No VAT is added at checkout. See the full pricing table.