---
title: "Remove a background colour from a GIF or image"
description: "Make one colour transparent in an animated GIF or still image. Click the preview to pick the colour, then set tolerance and feathering for soft edges. Runs locally with ffmpeg."
url: "https://gif.statico.io/remove-bg/"
category: "edit"
last_updated: "2026-09-09T04:53:20.619Z"
doc_version: "1"
---

# Remove a background colour from a GIF or image

Make one colour transparent in an animated GIF or still image. Click the preview to pick the colour, then set tolerance and feathering for soft edges. Runs locally with ffmpeg.

## How it works

This tool runs entirely in your browser using ffmpeg, canvas compiled to
WebAssembly (or the Canvas API, where listed). Your file is never uploaded — it is
read into memory, processed locally, and offered back to you as a download.

## Using it

1. Open https://gif.statico.io/remove-bg/
2. Choose a file, by drag and drop or the file picker.
3. Adjust the settings. Key out one colour with tolerance and feathered edges.
4. Set the filename and download. Names are slugified so the result can be
   uploaded straight to Slack as a custom emoji.

Results are also saved to a per-browser history at https://gif.statico.io/history/.

## Related

- [Resize](https://gif.statico.io/resize.md): Scale by pixels or percent, aspect lock optional.
- [Crop](https://gif.statico.io/crop.md): Drag a box or type exact pixels. Keeps animation.
- [Cut](https://gif.statico.io/cut.md): Trim to a start/end range with a scrubber.
- [Speed](https://gif.statico.io/speed.md): Faster or slower, by multiplier or target FPS.
- [Reverse](https://gif.statico.io/reverse.md): Backwards, or a seamless boomerang loop.
- [Rotate](https://gif.statico.io/rotate.md): 90/180/270, arbitrary angles, and mirror flips.
- [Add Text](https://gif.statico.io/add-text.md): Meme captions, overlays and caption bars.
- [Effects](https://gif.statico.io/effects.md): Grayscale, sepia, invert, blur, colour adjustments.

## Sitemap

- [Every page, grouped by section](https://gif.statico.io/sitemap.md)
- [XML sitemap](https://gif.statico.io/sitemap.xml)
- [Site overview for agents](https://gif.statico.io/llms.txt)