Green Screen Remover

Remove green screen backgrounds instantly with our free chroma key tool. Perfect for video stills, photos, and graphics. Adjust tolerance for precise background removal with transparent results.

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Key Settings
Matte Refinement
Color Correction

What is Green Screen Remover?

Green Screen Remover is a free online chroma key tool that instantly removes green screen backgrounds from images and video stills. Our background removal tool uses professional YCbCr color space algorithms (the same method used in broadcast video production) with automatic spill suppression to detect and make green pixels transparent, creating clean cutouts for compositing, video editing, and graphic design. Perfect for removing chroma key backgrounds from photos, video frames, product shots, and studio photography with broadcast-quality results.

How to Remove Green Screen Background

Upload your green screen image or video still to begin background removal. Click the color picker button to open the professional color selector - use the HSL color wheel to choose any color, type a HEX value directly, or click the eyedropper icon (💧) to pick colors from anywhere on your screen. The chroma key algorithm uses YCbCr color space (industry standard) to detect and remove the selected color in real-time. Adjust Tolerance to control removal intensity, Edge Softness for smoother transitions, and Clip Black/White to refine the matte. Use Matte Size to grow or shrink the transparent area (negative values remove edge glow). Spill Suppression automatically removes color fringing. Click Save in the color picker to apply your selection and close the picker. Download as PNG or WebP with full transparency preservation.

Chroma Key Color Options - Green vs Blue Screen Removal

While green is the most common chroma key color for background removal, our tool supports removing blue screens, white backgrounds, and black backgrounds too. Green screen removal works best for most subjects because green is furthest from human skin tones. Blue screen removal is ideal for subjects wearing green clothing or when working with blonde hair that may have green reflections. Choose from preset colors or use the color picker to remove any custom background color from your images.

When to Use Green Screen Background Removal

Use green screen removal for video production stills, YouTube thumbnail creation, product photography shot on green backgrounds, cosplay photos, studio portraits with chroma key backdrops, and streaming overlays. Perfect for content creators extracting video frames for thumbnails, photographers preparing composite images, graphic designers creating marketing materials, and educators producing educational video content. Remove green screen backgrounds from conference call recordings, virtual event photos, or any image shot against a chroma key backdrop.

Professional Quality Transparent Background Exports

Export green screen removed images as PNG format to maintain full transparency and lossless quality for professional video editing and graphic design work. WebP format provides smaller file sizes while preserving transparency - ideal for web graphics, presentations, and digital marketing assets. Our chroma key removal preserves original image resolution, ensuring your cutouts remain sharp for 4K video production, large format printing, or high-resolution compositing projects.