Christian Heilmann

MacOS can remove image backgrounds #shorts

Monday, February 6th, 2023 at 1:55 pm

Today I learned that MacOS can remove backgrounds from images, much like remove.bg does.

All you need to do is right-click an image and select Quick Actions > Remove Background.

Remove background option of the finder context menu.

For example, it turned this image

Chris Heilmann holding a cup

into this one:

Same images as earlier but with removed background

Share on Mastodon (needs instance)

Share on BlueSky

Newsletter

Check out the Dev Digest Newsletter I write every week for WeAreDevelopers. Latest issues:

Word is Doomed, Flawed LLM benchmarks, hard sorting and CSS mistakes Spot LLM benchmark flaws, learn why sorting is hard, how to run Doom in Word and how to say "no" like a manager.
30 years of JS, Browser AI, how attackers use GenAI, whistling code Learn how to use AI in your browser and not on the cloud, why AI makes different mistakes than humans and go and whistle up some code!
197: Dunning-Kruger steroids, state of cloud security, puppies>beer
196: AI killed devops, what now? LLM Political bias & AI security Learn how AI killed DevOps, create long tasks in JS, why 1 in 5 security breaches are AI generated code & play "The Scope Creep"
195: End of likes, JS Zoo and Tim Berners-Lee doesn't see AI vs Web Meta kills like buttons, Tim-Berners-Lee thinks AI won't kill the web, GitHub is ending toasts and the worst selling Microsoft product.

My other work: