Clipping Magic: Background Removal Made Easy

Need a quick and easy way to get rid of the background from your pictures? Clipping Magic is an online resource which helps you do this without Photoshop.

You don't even have to download anything, just upload an image onto the website and you can edit from there. With its relatively simple interface, all you have to do is mark the foreground with green (the parts you want to keep) and the background with red to get rid of it. You might have to zoom in a bit to get those nooks and crannies, but it seems to do a pretty decent job.

Here's an example of an image with a few crude brush strokes

Here's the final image, ready for you to swap in some silly background.

As you can see it's not going to be perfect. Hair of course is going to be a little iffy even with the most advanced software, but hey this is free as long as it is in alpha testing. For those who are looking for adobe alternatives, here's one tool which could be useful in the future.