Cut out an object from a photo
The example is the Black sunglasses photo from the Editor's start screen.
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Open the Editor and add your photo with Upload, or choose an example under it, here the black sunglasses (Add images). It opens in Cutout with Area chosen.
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Drag a box around the glasses, arms included, with a little room to spare. The cutout starts when you release; each pass uses 1 credit.
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Choose Show result, the split icon beside the tool menu, or press R. The checkerboard is transparent space: whatever is behind the cutout shows through. Choose it again to go back to the photo.
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Choose Copy in the same bar, then paste the cutout anywhere.
To save it as a file or put it on a colour, see Copy, download or export a result.
What to check
In Show result, check every part is there, such as arms, straps and thin ends, and nothing from around it stayed. If not, fix the cutout with a click instead of starting again.
“Couldn't cut it out.” keeps your box and charges nothing; choose Try again on the message.
Cut out a second object
Choose New cutout, the + beneath the first cutout's tile in the strip, and draw a box around the second object.
Select one cutout's tile before you copy or export it: several selected come out as one image.
Common mistakes
- Relying on Undo after reloading. Your edits survive a reload; Undo history doesn't.
- Deleting the image before saving its cutouts. Cutouts belong to their image. Save the ones you want to the Library first.
- Using Cutout to erase something. Cutout keeps the object. To erase it and fill its place, use Remove.
Questions
Yes. Copy, Download and Export cut it from the photo at full size, then crop the file to the object's edges, so the file is as large as the object is in the photo. Nothing is scaled up.
Yes. Undo in the bar under the photo, or Ctrl + Z, takes back the last pass, and Redo puts it back. The pass's credit stays spent (Do I get credits back if I undo something?).
No. The Editor saves each cutout as you work; reopen the photo from your images on the Editor's right, or from Recent on Home. To share a cutout, or keep it past 90 days unused, choose Save to library (How long do images outside the Library stay?).
Yes, by naming it instead of drawing a box. Ask the Agent to cut it out of up to 20 photos in one message (Cut out the same thing from many images), or put a Cutout step in a workflow for more (Run a workflow on many images).