{"id":913,"date":"2024-05-07T11:45:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/docs\/how-does-the-remove-background-feature-work\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:40:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:40:27","password":"","slug":"how-does-the-remove-background-feature-work","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/how-does-the-remove-background-feature-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How does the “Remove background” feature work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEnable Media Replace includes a very useful function from version 4.0:
\n\tRemove Background<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n

What does the Remove Background function do? <\/h2>\n

\nThe image is sent to our API and then returned with a transparent background (for PNG images) or with a white background (for JPG images). Then your old image will be overwritten with the new image, just like the Replace Media function.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIf you don’t want to “remove” the background with a white\/transparent color, you can also select a solid color background from a color picker.\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n\t\t\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Where can you find the Remove Background option? <\/h2>\n

\n\tYou can find it in the same two places as the Replace Media option.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tEither In the Media Library, next to the good old Replace Media link…\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\n<\/p>\n

\n\t…or in the Edit Media screen.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enable Media Replace includes a very useful function from version 4.0: Remove Background. What does the Remove Background function do?  The image is sent to our API and then returned with a transparent background (for PNG images) or with a white background (for JPG images). Then your old image will be overwritten with the new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[39],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-913","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-enable-media-replace"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":138,"total_views":"2417","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin_mdli53m5","author_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/author\/admin_mdli53m5\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Enable Media Replace","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/enable-media-replace\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2342,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/913\/revisions\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}