Remove a Person from a Photo — Pro, on our server
The background decides the result, not the person. A human shape is simply a region you have painted out; what fills it comes from whatever was on either side. Sky, water, sand, grass, a painted wall, a wooden floor, a plain tablecloth — these are continuous, statistically boring surfaces, and PowerPaint closes them so cleanly that nobody looks twice. Bookshelves, brickwork with a strong grid, tiled floors, a row of parked cars, a crowd at a wedding: these carry structure the model has to line up across a gap, and the seam is where the grout line or the shelf edge fails to meet. Before you spend a run, look at the two edges of the person and ask whether you could redraw what is between them from what you can see. If you could, the model probably can as well.
Overlap is the real limit, and it is worth understanding before you paint. When the person you are removing stands clear of everyone else, the job is background reconstruction. When they have an arm around the person you are keeping, it becomes anatomy invention: the model must produce a shoulder, a sleeve, a hemline it has never seen, and it will produce something confident and wrong about as often as something right. Two practical moves usually beat a heroic mask. Crop them out instead with the on-device crop tool, which costs no run at all and changes nothing that stays in the frame. Or accept a smaller mask that leaves the overlapping sliver and removes the rest of the body, which reads far better than a hallucinated arm.
Paint everything the person put into the scene. A body casts a shadow, reflects in water, glass and polished floors, blocks light on the wall behind, and usually holds something. Each of those is a separate patch of pixels that the model will leave exactly where it is unless your brush covers it, and a floating drink or an ownerless shadow is what makes an edit obvious. Work at a comfortable zoom, use a larger brush for the torso and a smaller one along the hairline and between fingers, and give yourself a few pixels of margin everywhere — a mask cut exactly to the silhouette tends to leave a thin rim of the original person behind. If the first pass leaves an artefact, paint over that artefact and run again rather than starting from the original.
Where this runs, and what it costs. Person removal is Cloud HD: a Pro-only option you switch on yourself, because an inpainting model of this size cannot run in a browser. Your photo and your mask are encrypted in transit, processed once on our GPU in the United States, and deleted when the run finishes and in all cases within 24 hours — never used to train anything. Pro includes 150 runs a month on Monthly and 200 on Annual, of which 10 may be HD runs; removals are HD. Sibling pages cover the narrower jobs: a photobomber behind the group, a crowd in front of a landmark, or the general object remover for everything that is not a person. If what you actually want is a cutout of one person on a transparent background, the free on-device background remover does that in your browser with no upload at all.