How to Put Product Photos on a White Background in Bulk

You can put hundreds of product photos on a clean white or transparent background in a few minutes, for about $4 per 1,000 images, without opening an editor.

Marketplaces and stores look more professional, and often convert better, when every product sits on the same plain background. Doing it by hand takes a few minutes per photo in an editor, and design services charge per image. For a catalogue of hundreds or thousands of products, both add up fast. This guide shows how to do the whole batch at once with an AI background remover.

What marketplaces expect

Most large marketplaces ask for a plain, usually pure white, background on the main product image, with the product filling most of the frame. Rules differ by marketplace and category and change over time, so check the current image guidelines of the platform you sell on before a big batch.

The two outputs that cover nearly every case:

• White background (JPG): the main listing image on marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay and Etsy, and most store themes.
• Transparent background (PNG or WebP): for designers, ads, banners and composites where the product goes on a coloured or styled background.

Do a whole batch in five steps

The walkthrough uses Background Remover: Transparent PNG & White Background on Apify. It runs open-source AI models inside your own run, so the photos are not sent to a third-party service. A free Apify account is enough to start.

1. Open the tool page and click Try for free.
2. Under Image URLs, paste links to your photos, one per line (your store's image links, Google Drive or Dropbox direct links), or upload a single image.
3. Pick the settings for your goal (table below).
4. Click Start. Each image takes about a second.
5. Open the Output tab to preview every cut-out and download them, or download the list of links as CSV or Excel.

• Marketplace main image: output JPG, background solid colour #FFFFFF, crop to subject on with a 40 px margin.
• Store or catalogue: PNG or WebP, transparent background, crop to subject on.
• Ads and design work: PNG, transparent background, crop off.
• Portraits and team photos: PNG with the People model, transparent or a colour, crop off.

Tips for clean cut-outs

The AI does best when the product clearly stands out from what is behind it.

• Contrast helps: a dark product on a light table, or the reverse, cuts out more cleanly than a beige item on a beige wall.
• Hair, fur and fabric fringes: turn on Refine edges for softer, more natural edges. It is slower, so use it only where it is needed.
• Glass, smoke and see-through items are the hardest case for any background remover; check those images by hand.
• Check the coverage number: each result has a subjectCoverage value. Close to 0 means no clear subject was found, so look at that photo.
• Large files: images bigger than 3,000 px on the longest side are scaled down first; raise the limit (up to 6,000 px) if you need print sizes.

Automate it, and what it costs

Once the settings look right, you can run them on every new product automatically.

• API: send image links, get back cut-out links in one request, from your own app or script.
• No-code: connect it to Make, Zapier or n8n, for example to process every new photo added to a Google Drive folder.
• Schedule: run it nightly on new catalogue images.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plotpointtech~background-remover/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"imageUrls": [{"url": "https://example.com/products/mug.jpg"}], "background": "color", "backgroundColor": "#FFFFFF", "outputFormat": "jpg"}'

• 1 photo: $0.004
• 500 product photos: $2.00
• 10,000 catalogue images: $40.00

Prices are for the Apify Free plan; paid Apify plans get automatic discounts. Images that cannot be read are not charged.

Plot Point Technologies builds the Background Remover on Apify. Questions: [e-mail].