Remove the background before you engrave

Pet portraits and people photos are usually taken in a kitchen, a garden or a living room. On the engraving that background becomes a field of dots competing with the face. Cutting it out gives a clean subject on bare material, shortens the job because the laser skips the empty area, and makes shapes like a round coaster or a heart look intentional.

Remove background is one of the AI tools, next to Upscale (2× or 4×), Restore old photo, Colorize, Denoise and deblur, and Vectorize, which gives a separate SVG download.

This matters most on materials where the file is inverted. On black slate, glass or clear acrylic the laser makes a light mark, so a white background in an inverted file would turn into a large burned rectangle. The app treats the cut-out area as never burned on every material, so you get the subject alone on bare stone, glass or acrylic.

You choose which model runs each AI operation and set a favourite in AI models. Your favourite is then used everywhere. Dedicated background removal models keep your original pixels and only cut the subject out. Generative models redraw the image, which can change a face or a pet's markings, so avoid them for portraits.

Fine edges such as fur, flyaway hair and whiskers are the hard part for any model. Check the edges with the magnifier before you prepare the file, and try another model if they look chopped.

AI tools need an account and are billed per image by the AI provider. The app shows the estimated cost for the model you picked before you run it. AI tools are the one place where your photo leaves your device: it is sent to the AI provider of the model you pick, through our server. Everything else, including One Click, Easy Mode and Batch without AI steps, runs in your browser.