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Color Removal V2: remove chosen colors from every image

Removes up to 10 colors you choose, everywhere they appear in the image, and leaves see-through pixels. Works as a background remover only when the background is one solid color your design doesn't use.

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Color Removal V2 removes colors, not backgrounds. You choose a color (or up to 10 of them), and every pixel close to that color becomes see-through, wherever it is in the image.

That makes it a fast background remover in one specific case: the background is a single solid color that does not appear anywhere in your design. A design on flat white with no white in it, or a subject generated on a color it doesn't contain, comes out clean. If the same color is also inside your design, Color Removal V2 removes it there too.

Why this step matters

Logos, stickers, product cut-outs, and AI images often need transparent backgrounds — so whatever sits behind them (a web page, a product, another photo) shows through. When your images sit on a solid background color that your designs don't use, Color Removal V2 in your pipeline turns that color see-through on every image at once, free and instantly. It's also useful beyond backgrounds: dropping a color out of a design, or removing a colored guide or border.

How to use it

Add Color Removal V2 to your pipeline.
Choose how it finds the color: Auto (it samples the color at the corners of your image, which is usually the background) or Manual (you pick the exact color with the picker or a hex code).
Pick a Preset — Low, Medium (the default), or High.
If it's not quite right, nudge the Base Threshold slider.
Need to remove more than one color? Click Add another color (up to 10).

The settings

Setting	What it does
Color Mode (Auto / Manual)	Auto reads the color at the edges of your image (usually the background). Manual lets you click a color or paste a hex code (like `#FFFFFF` for white).
Preset (Low / Medium / High)	A one-click strength. Low removes less (safest), Medium is the default, High removes more (for colors with lots of slightly different shades). Choosing a preset sets the Base Threshold for you.
Base Threshold (0–100)	Fine-tune how close a color has to be to get erased. Higher removes a wider range (can start eating into your subject); lower is stricter.
Auto-Trim (default ON)	After removing the color, automatically cuts off the empty see-through edges — saves adding a separate Trim step.
Contiguous (default OFF)	When ON, only removes the chosen color where it's connected to the edges of the image, keeping any matching color inside your design. This is what lets it act like a background remover when your design shares the background color.
Advanced (toggle)	Opens fine-tuning for tricky images — interior controls (for gaps inside the design) and Halo Width (removes the faint colored ring left around a subject). Most people never need these.
Add another color	Stack up to 10 colors to remove in one pass. Each color has its own settings.

Tips

Start with Medium + Auto. That handles most images.
Color not fully gone? Switch the preset to High, or raise Base Threshold a little. Eating into your design? Lower it, or drop to Low.
Part of your design is the same color you're removing? Turn on Contiguous so only the color touching the edges goes.
Faint colored halo around your subject? Turn on Advanced and raise Halo Width.
Background made of a few solid colors? Use Add another color and pick each one.

Why Color Removal sometimes fails

If Color Removal V2 leaves patches when you use it on a background, the background usually isn't truly one flat color. AI generators often make backgrounds that look flat to your eye but are full of slightly different shades to a computer. When the background really is one flat color, removal is clean with no halo.

What to do:

Turn Contiguous off to also remove matching color inside the design (e.g. between letters).
Try the High preset, or Advanced for tricky edges.
For batches, ask your AI to generate on neon green and use [Green BG Remover](green-bg-remover) at Threshold 60 — it handles uneven green much better.

When to use a real background remover instead

Hair, fur, or soft/photographic edges: AI Background Removal (15 credits per image) handles these far better.
Gradients, textures, photos or busy scenes with no single background color: use AI Background Removal.
Your design uses the background color all over (white text on a white background, for example): use AI Background Removal, which looks at the subject instead of the color.

Things Color Removal V2 doesn't do

It is not a background remover. It sees colors, not objects or backgrounds. If your subject contains the color you remove, that color disappears from the subject too (Contiguous helps only when those parts don't touch the edges).
It doesn't add a new background. It just makes the chosen color transparent. To put your subject on a colored background, add Canvas Fill or Reposition.