Pick a photograph from your gallery inside the story editor and the subject can be lifted out of it — the person, the animal, the object — leaving the background behind.
What you get is effectively a sticker made from your own photograph, which you can place on top of something else.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Cut a subject out of one of your photographs.
- check_circle Stack it over another picture or video.
- check_circle Choose photographs the cut-out will work on.
- check_circle Avoid the version that looks like a mistake.
The cut-out is made from a gallery photograph and dropped straight onto the story canvas.
content_cut The photograph decides the result
Cutting out is one tap and most of the outcome was determined before you tapped it. A subject standing clear of a plain wall comes out with a clean edge; a subject in front of a busy shelf comes out with pieces of shelf attached, and no amount of fiddling fixes that afterwards.
So the useful skill is choosing the source. Strong separation between the subject and what is behind it, decent light, and edges that are not fuzzy — hair against a dark background and anything transparent are where it struggles.
The processing happens on the phone, so this works without a connection and your gallery photographs are not sent anywhere to be analysed. Older devices manage it more slowly and with rougher edges rather than not at all.
Where it works, and where it stops helping
The tap is free. Which column you end up in was decided by the photograph, before the editor opened.
auto_fix_high Where it works
block Where it stops helping
The tap is free; the photograph is the work. Clear subject, clear background, and check the edge at full size.
settings Making one
- Start a story with the base picture or video The cut-out goes on top.
- Open the sticker tools and choose a photograph From your gallery.
- Cut out the subject One tap, done on the device.
- Size and place it Plausible scale, roughly matching light.
- Check the edge at full size Before posting.
- Fall back to the original photograph If the outline is ragged.
This page makes one layer out of a photograph. The curriculum step is the editor around it: text, drawing, ordering layers, and the editing decisions that turn a stack of elements into a picture.
At a glance
- 1Cut out a subject
Tap a person or object in your photo to lift it out.
- 2Stack it
Place the cut-out over another photo or video.
- 3Good source photos
Clear edges and good light give clean cut-outs.
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