Remove products background for WooCommerce

Key features
Supported images
How it works
Installation
How to use
Frequently asked questions
Support
Screenshots
Video demo
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Remove products background for WooCommerce is a wordpress plugin, which allows automatically remove or change any* (*see supported images section below) background of woocommerce product images using API of remove.bg service.

You can easily set transparent background, make the background to be any color you want or put your own image as the background. The only requirement for photos is to have your products on foreground, meaning that there should be clear distinction between foreground and background on your photo.

Save Time & Money

How long does it take you to manually cut out an image? Depending on the complexity perhaps a minute, or five, or twenty, or even more? With remove.bg and our plugin you'll be done in 5 seconds, and the process is completely automatic. In fact, you can do something else entirely while Artificial Intelligence gets rid of your woocommerce products images backgrounds.

Key features

automatically change/remove any* (*see supported images section below) background at product photos
process either all products or only specified
choose which image types to process (main image or gallery images)
back up and restore original images
choose output image size
preview background removal result before actual removing

Supported images

Any JPG or PNG image with up to 8 megabytes. All photos that have a subject that is clearly meant to be the foreground are supported. For instance, most photos of products, persons, animals, cars and other objects work. If the image resolution is larger than 10 megapixels (e.g. 4000 × 2500 pixels or any other aspect ratio) it is resized to this maximum resolution.

How it works?

For background removal the plugin uses API of service remove.bg The service allows 50 free requests which provide resulting images of 0.25 megapixels max (e.g. 625×400 pixels). If you like the result, need more requests or higher output resolution - you can obtain a paid subscription and enjoy the full resolution of outputted photos. Read more about pricing here

General Recommendations for photo shooting

Contrast: Images taken under good lighting conditions and with a high contrast between foreground and background give better results.

Alignment: Make sure to upload images with the correct orientation. Results are best if they match gravity (i.e. the ground is at the bottom of the image).

Prefer plain backgrounds: Blurry and single-color backgrounds are easier to remove than sharp backgrounds with many details.

Sharp foreground: If the foreground is blurry it might get removed. If only the edges are blurry, they will still be blurry in the cutout (which may or may not be an issue).

Installation

Upload `woocommerce-remove-bg.zip` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPres
Navigate to plugin settings via Remove BG item in worpdress side menu.

How to use

Sign up to remove.bg site by going here. Skip this step if you have already signed up;
Sign in to your account at remove.bg by going here;
Navigate to API key tab at your remove.bg profile by going here;
Click the button SHOW and copy the revealed API-key.
Paste the API key into relevant plugin setting field and click Save Settings
If you want to preview background removal for some product, enter its ID into Preview a product field and click Preview
Choose desired plugin options.To see each option description, put mouse over option name.
Click Start Background removal to start processing products' images.
If you are not satisfied with result, click Restore Backup to restore your original images.

Frequently Asked Questions

How it works?

For background removal the plugin uses API of service remove.bg. The service allows 50 free requests which provide resulting images of 0.25 megapixels max (e.g. 625×400 pixels). If you like the result, need more requests or higher output resolution - you can obtain a paid subscription and enjoy the full resolution of outputted photos. Read more about pricing here.

What images are supported?

You can upload any JPG or PNG image with up to 8 megabytes. All photos that have a subject that is clearly meant to be the foreground are supported. For instance, most photos of products, persons, animals, cars and other objects work. If the image resolution is larger than 10 megapixels (e.g. 4000 × 2500 pixels or any other aspect ratio) it is resized to this maximum resolution.

What if I am unsatisfied with the results?

We recommend to test the result with a few products by providing their IDs in plugin settings. If you are not satisifed, you can easily restore original images. If you are ok with results, then you can proceed with removing/changing background of all products and obtaining paid subscription at remove.bg service.

Where can I get the ID of a product?

Navigate to Products->All products sectin of side wordpress menu
Put mouse over desired product
In the appeared block the first item will be the product's ID, i.e. ID: 123.

Edit desired product
In the browser URL address bar you will see link (i.e. http://your.site/wp-admin/post.php?post=123&action=edit),where the number after "post=" will be your product ID. In the exmaple it's 123.