Remove people from a photo

Take a stranger out of the frame. The background stays intact.

Every image model

One workspace

People you can clear

Remove people in three steps

  1. 01

    Open Morphic

    Sign up and start creating on a free-flowing, infinite visual canvas.

  2. 02

    Mark who to remove

    Upload a photo and mark the photobomber, the passer-by, or the crowd you want gone.

  3. 03

    Generate and export

    The space they filled rebuilds by inpainting. Rerun until it is clean, then export.

Use cases

Get the landmark to yourself

A monument, a beach, or a famous view is rarely empty when you visit. Mark the tourists and passers-by and the model rebuilds the paving, sand, and architecture behind them. You end up with the calm, uncrowded shot you pictured, from the photo you actually managed to take.

Get the landmark to yourself

Take a photobomber out of a portrait

Someone walked through the frame just as the shutter went, and it is the only shot you got. Mark the stray person and the model continues the wall, path, or sky where they were. Your subject stays exactly as photographed, and the interruption disappears from the background.

Take a photobomber out of a portrait

Empty a space for a listing or venue shot

A shop, a restaurant, or a venue photographs best without customers in the way. Mark the people and the model rebuilds the floor, seating, and fittings behind them, so the space reads clean for a listing, a website, or a booking page without waiting for a quiet moment to reshoot.

Empty a space for a listing or venue shot

Protect a stranger's privacy

A bystander who did not agree to be in your photo can be cleared before you post it. Mark the person and the background fills in where they stood, so you can share a street scene or an event shot without putting someone who was just passing through into public view.

Protect a stranger's privacy

Prompt examples

Monument photo with crowds removed and the plaza rebuilt

Empty the landmark

Remove the tourists in front of the monument and rebuild the steps and plaza

Edit prompt
Park portrait with a background photobomber removed

Clear the photobomber

Remove the person walking behind my subject and continue the park path

Edit prompt
Beach photo with people removed and the sand and sea rebuilt

Empty the beach

Remove the swimmers and sunbathers and rebuild the sand and sea

Edit prompt
Street scene with pedestrians removed and the storefront kept

Quiet the street

Remove the pedestrians on the pavement and keep the storefront intact

Edit prompt
Restaurant interior with diners removed and tables rebuilt

Clear the venue

Remove the diners in the restaurant and rebuild the empty tables and floor

Edit prompt
Photo with one foreground subject kept and the surrounding people removed

Keep one, lose the rest

Keep the child in the foreground and remove everyone else in the frame

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All on Morphic

Your photo cleanup toolkit

Simple pricing

Get started for free today, with the option to upgrade or cancel anytime.

Basic

$19/ month
billed as $0 per year

2400 monthly credits

1 user only

All models

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Standard

$24/ month
billed as $0 per year

3625 monthly credits

1 user only

All models

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Pro

$45/ month
billed as $0 per year

6350 shared monthly credits

1 user

+ up to 4 more at extra cost

All models

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Max

$170/ month
billed as $0 per year

24650 shared monthly credits

1 user

+ up to 9 more at extra cost

All models

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Enterprise

For higher limits

Custom

pricing and billing terms

High-volume credits
Custom seat limits
All models
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Pricing Gradient

Free

For playing around

$0

forever free

Up to 20 credits
1 user only
Limited models
Workflows

FAQs

How do I remove people from a photo?
Mark the person or people you want gone and the model rebuilds the space they were standing in. This is inpainting, so the wall, path, sand, or sky behind them is regenerated to continue the scene, rather than a patch being copied over. Because the fill matches the light and perspective already in the frame, the shot reads as if that person was never there.
Can it clear a whole crowd, not just one person?
Yes. Mark several people at once, or a dense crowd behind your subject, and clear them in one pass. A big removal against a busy background rebuilds a lot of scene, so a rerun or a second pass on any leftover figure is sometimes worth it. Working from the edges inward helps on packed shots.
Will the background where they stood look wrong?
The goal is that it does not. The space is regenerated to match what surrounds it, so a paved plaza continues as paving and a beach continues as sand. On simple backgrounds the result is near invisible. On complex ones, like a crowd in front of detailed architecture, check the fill and rerun or switch models if a section is off.
Can I keep my subject and only remove the people around them?
Yes. Mark only the people you want gone and leave your subject untouched. The model rebuilds around them, so you keep the person you photographed and lose the strangers, the photobomber, or the crowd in the background.
What is the difference between this and a background remover?
A background remover cuts your subject away from everything behind them, leaving a cutout. This keeps the whole scene and removes only the people you mark, so the location stays and the strangers go. Use this when you want the photo to look like the same place with fewer people in it.
Does it work on distant people as well as close ones?
Yes. It handles a passer-by close to the lens and a scatter of tiny figures far in the background. Distant crowds against sky or water are usually the cleanest to clear, since there is plenty of matching scene to rebuild from.
Is there anything to download?
No. It runs on Morphic in the browser. Upload the photo, mark the people you want gone, generate the cleaned frame, and export it from the same canvas.

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