Picking the background colour by hand

The GIF background remover on AnimateImage makes one background colour transparent in every frame. By default it estimates that colour from the four corners of the first frame. Most of the time that guess is right. When it is not, you can click on the image to pick the colour yourself.

When to pick by hand:

• A corner is covered by part of the subject, such as a hand or a caption.
• The corners have a vignette or a darker edge than the rest of the background.
• You want to remove an inner colour, not the outer frame.

After picking, adjust the tolerance (0 to 255, default 30) until the edges look clean. GIF transparency is on or off per pixel, so edges stay hard; this suits logos, stickers and plain-screen clips more than busy photos.

Limits are up to 20 MiB, 120 frames and 1600 px per side. Learn to choose the colour to remove, or try the other free tools on AnimateImage.

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