You did it! You just shot a photo of yourself that shows you from your best angle – even the light is perfect. It’s got to be your new profile photo on social media; and yes, it’s even good enough for your career network.

But there’s one snag: the rubbish bin in the background. How do you get rid of such unwanted distraction without needing a redo? Find help with PhotoRoom.

When the app works its magic, it will erase any background blunders and put you back in the spotlight. With a bunch of tools to create clean profile pictures, you’ll feel like you just did a professional edit.

Graphic design skills aren’t necessary to crop something out of your image. Upload an existing picture from your Photos app, or take a new selfie with the in-app camera. PhotoRoom’s machine learning technology distinguishes the foreground (you) from the background (the unwanted rubbish bin) instantly.

“Users don’t need 10,000 hours of training to understand complex concepts like masks and layers. We want to give design superpowers to everyone,” says PhotoRoom’s co-founder Matthieu Rouif.

After the first basic step, it’s up to you to personalise your profile picture further. For your career network, go for a minimalist approach with a clean background. If you’d like to show off your creative side on other social media platforms, you can pick from lots of natural or flashy colours.

Or make use of the app’s backgrounds and templates within various categories, such as Pop, Fashion or Magazines. Subscribing to the Pro version will unlock even more styles, and hands you the best tools to create your own templates.

PhotoRoom’s background-polishing features work way beyond your profile picture. Perhaps you’d like to sell something on the internet and need that object cropped out from your living room floor, or plan to create a unique birthday card for the grandparents with the kids standing out from a fun background.

There are lots of possibilities for PhotoRoom to support you in your photography endeavours, so get creative today.