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Pixel Art Background Remover

A good sprite stuck on a white background? It finds the background colour on the edges, keeps hard pixel edges, cleans the halo and does many files at once.

Transparent sprites from a flat background, in your browser.

Use it: 3 days for $1 Included in Gridwright with all 31 tools and every pack, $17 a month.

In your browserNothing to installYour work saved to your accountOpens on any device you sign in on

Pixel Art Background Remover at work
Pixel Art Background Remover at work in your browser.

What Pixel Art Background Remover does

A sprite saved on white, or with a checkerboard baked into the picture, is useless in a game until the background is gone. The Pixel Art Background Remover finds the background colour on the picture's edges and corners, or you click the colour you want gone, and it handles both colours of a saved checkerboard.

Clearing from the edges stops at each sprite's outline, so white eyes and highlights inside stay. Clearing every matching pixel also takes the colour between frames and inside sprites. Tolerance catches the near colours a JPG leaves, halo cleanup takes the light fringe, and every pixel comes out fully solid or fully clear, so edges stay sharp in any engine. Many files go through at once and come back as a ZIP.

How it works

  1. Drop a sprite or a sheet on the box, or many at once (or try our monsters).
  2. Check the colour it found, or click the background on the left picture to pick it.
  3. Choose from the edges or every matching pixel; raise the tolerance and the halo cleanup until the edges are clean.
  4. Look at it on black, white and pink, then download the PNG or the ZIP.

What you get out

  • Transparent PNG
  • ZIP of every picture
  • Hard edges: every pixel fully solid or fully clear

Packs to use it with

Pixel MonstersCharacters & creaturesRPG Item IconsIconsTop-Down CharactersCharacters & creaturesSpell VFXEffects

More tools to fix every sprite

Sprite Sheet MakerOne sprite sheet from many framesSprite Sheet CutterSingle frames from a sprite sheetGIF to Sprite SheetSprite sheets and frames from animated GIFsSprite Animation PreviewerYour animation played, checked and lined upSprite Outline AdderOutlines round sprites and whole sheetsPixel Art UpscalerBigger pixel art without blurPixelatorPixel art from any picturePalette SwapperNew colours for any sprite or sheetColor Palette ExtractorThe palette of any picture, with pixel countsPixel Palette & Shading Ramp MakerShading ramps and palettes for pixel art

FAQ

Is Pixel Art Background Remover free?

Pixel Art Background Remover is part of Gridwright: every tool and every asset pack for $17 a month, and you can start with 3 days for $1. It runs in your browser, with nothing to install.

Can I download Pixel Art Background Remover?

No. Pixel Art Background Remover runs inside Gridwright, in your browser, and what you make there is saved to your account, so it is on every device you sign in on. What it exports (your sprites, maps, sounds and engine files) downloads to your computer and stays yours.

What does Pixel Art Background Remover export?

Pixel Art Background Remover exports Transparent PNG, ZIP of every picture, Hard edges: every pixel fully solid or fully clear.

Does Pixel Art Background Remover work with Godot?

Yes. Everything it makes is a standard file (PNG and friends) that Godot, Unity and every other engine opens.

Can I use what I make in a commercial game?

Yes. What you make with the Gridwright tools goes into free and commercial games on any platform.

Your game, looking finished

Every Gridwright asset pack, made to fit together, and all 31 tools for the fiddly work, with every new release, for $17 a month. Try it in your own game first: 3 days for $1, cancel any time.

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