Pixelforge

Self-hosted · nothing stored

Cut the background out. Keep every hair.

Or turn a flat logo into a vector that scales to a billboard. Two jobs that normally cost a subscription and hand your images to somebody else's server. This one runs on our machine and keeps nothing.

Accounts are approved by hand. That same button is where you ask for one.

  • Full resolution
  • No watermark
  • Nothing kept
portrait.jpg → portrait-nobg.pngdone · 3.4 s
BeforeAfter · PNG
isnet-general-use · alpha matting1 in · 1 out · 0 stored

Two tools

One image in, one file out.

Remove background

Cut-outs that keep the hair

Four models to choose from, and alpha matting for the edges that usually come out chewed. Out comes a PNG with real transparency, ready to drop onto anything.

  • ISNet, U²-Net, Silueta or U²-Net Lite
  • Alpha matting for hair, fur and glass
  • Mask clean-up for holes and specks

Vectorize

From pixels to curves

A logo or a drawing becomes an SVG you can print at any size without it going soft. Colour or black and white, with every knob exposed if you want to argue with the defaults.

  • Smooth, sharp or poster presets
  • Splines, polygons or the pixel grid
  • Colour precision, speckle filter and more

How it works

01

Drop an image

Drag it in, paste it, or pick it from your files. PNG, JPEG, WebP, BMP or TIFF, up to 50 MB, at whatever resolution it has.

02

Pick a model or a style

Defaults that work on the first try, and every setting within reach when a particular image needs arguing with.

03

Download the file

A PNG with real transparency or an SVG that scales without going soft. Compare it against the original before you take it.

Why not one of the free ones

Because the free ones are not.

No watermark, no upsell

The free ones give you a 500-pixel preview and ask for a card to see the rest. This gives you the file.

Full resolution

Whatever you put in comes back the same size. Nothing is downscaled to save somebody else's bandwidth.

Your images are not kept

The file is processed and the result handed straight back. Nothing is filed under your name, because there is no file to keep.

The controls are yours

Model, alpha matting, colour precision, speckle filtering. Defaults that work, and knobs when they do not.

No queue behind strangers

One machine, a handful of people. You are not waiting behind ten thousand accounts on a free tier.

Only people you let in

Accounts are approved by hand, which is also what keeps the CPU from becoming a free service for the whole internet.

Drop an image in and see.

The first cut-out takes a few seconds while the model loads. After that they come back about as fast as you can pick the next file.

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