Remove Image background with php and save transparent png

Question

I want to remove the white background of any image uploaded on the site working on PHP platform. The uploading function is done but messed up with this functionality.

Answer 1

Try ImageMagick it did the trick for me. You can also control the amount of color that needs to be removed. Just pass image path, bgcolor as an array of RGB, and fuzz in percent. As long as you have ImageMagick installed on your system/hosting. I had my hosting provider install it for me as a module.

I'm using ImageMagick version 6.2.8

Example:

    $image = "/path/to/your/image.jpg";
    $bgcolor = array("red" => "255", "green" => "255", "blue" => "255");
    $fuzz = 9;
    remove_image_background($image, $bgcolor, $fuzz); 

        protected function remove_image_background($image, $bgcolor, $fuzz)
        {
            $image = shell_exec('convert '.$image.' -fuzz '.$fuzz.'% -transparent "rgb('.$bgcolor['red'].','.$bgcolor['green'].','.$bgcolor['blue'].')" '.$image.'');
            return $image;
        }