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There are a lot of reasons you may want to remove the background from a photo or design
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It could be to put your logo on your website or to create a design like this for Instagram
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We end up removing the background basically every single day so we can create our YouTube
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banner, the thumbnails for our YouTube channel, as well as the watermark you see down below
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in the corner here. For us, the easiest way to remove the background is using Canva Pro
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We basically create all of our designs using Canva, but unfortunately to use this feature
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you need to have the paid version. I have a video from a couple years ago showing you a few options to remove the background
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for free, such as Remove.bg, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Word. And there was one other tool I think, but I can't remember the name of it
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But there are issues with all of them in terms of getting a high resolution image and actually
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selecting the right part of the image that should stay and which part should be removed
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So I have a couple of better options for you today so you don't have a low quality image
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like this when you use the free version of Remove.bg. Look at here's the resolution of the original image
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Here's what you can get for free. To get a high resolution, you need to get credits. So I'm going to show you three different options, 100% free, so you can remove the background
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and use it for whatever you need to. The first way to remove the background for free is to try Canva Pro for free for 45 days
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The normal free trial is just a month. You can get an extra 15 days if you use our affiliate link down below in the description
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This isn't a long-term fix, but if you have something right now where you need to get a couple of designs out, get your website created, and you want to do it quickly, all
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in one place, just use the free trial and then downgrade to the free version once the
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45 days is up. The second option is Erase.bg, which allows you to remove the background of an image that's
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up to 5,000 pixels by 5,000 pixels. So this is pretty high resolution
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This tool works pretty well for people and animals when I tested it, but it didn't work
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when I tried to remove the background of this design for our YouTube watermark. It removed the white background as well as the light gray oval and left just the dark
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gray text. So it doesn't allow you to edit what part of the image you want to keep and what you
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want to remove, at least with the free version. The third option to remove the background for free and my favorite is Adobe Express
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With Adobe Express, you get a full resolution image. So upload an image, have the background removed, have the same resolution when you're exporting
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it and want to use this later. So no resolution lost here
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Also I tested this with people, with pets, and with the YouTube watermark
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Everything worked perfectly. One thing is here, obviously they want you to upgrade and pay for other things within
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Adobe, so the editing option isn't available here for free. So again, whatever it calculates is the background
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That's what you're going to get for the final version. You can't make any edits. Now that you have the background of your image removed, it's time to create amazing designs
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with the free version of Canva, and you can learn to do that right here. Hope to see you in another video
