Product comparison
Ashampoo Background Remover 2 vs Corel PaintShop Pro 2023
Background Remover 2 concentrates on extracting people and objects and reusing the cutout. PaintShop Pro 2023 includes portrait background replacement within a broader photo editor. The useful comparison is how much selection control and further composition work your project needs.
Compare cutout workflows
| Task | Ashampoo Background Remover 2 | Corel PaintShop Pro 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Main workflow | Individual person and object cutouts with background replacement | Photo correction and graphic design with background editing tools |
| Automatic background selection | Subject detection with a selection frame to guide the result | AI Background Replacement selects people in portraits and group photos |
| Edge correction | Brush tools add missing areas or exclude unwanted parts | Refine, Feather, Add to Subject and Remove from Subject brush modes |
| Background output | Transparent, solid-color or custom image backgrounds | Preset, custom, original or transparent background choices |
| Further composition | Save a cutout or transfer it through the clipboard to another application | Replacement produces separate subject, background and original-image layers |
| Additional tools | Local object upscaling up to 4x, background blur and color effects | Layers, masks, text, drawing tools and photo adjustments |
Which workflow fits?
Choose Background Remover 2 to prepare an isolated subject
Ashampoo Background Remover 2 is useful for preparing a product image or portrait cutout for another layout application. Guide detection with a frame, correct the selection and export the result. Its AI subject detection and object upscaling run locally on your computer.
Choose PaintShop Pro for a composition you will keep editing
Corel PaintShop Pro 2023 provides more room to build a design around the extracted subject. AI Background Replacement creates separate layers, allowing you to continue adjusting the subject and background, match their appearance and add text or other elements.
PaintShop Pro's AI Background Replacement is designed around people in portrait and group photographs. For other subjects, evaluate its general selection, masking and extraction tools separately. This comparison uses PaintShop Pro 2023; it does not rely on extras from the separate Ultimate bundle.
Check edges and layers
- Start with a portrait where the complete subject is visible, then repeat with a more difficult group image if relevant.
- Inspect hair, translucent details and gaps between people against both a dark and a light background.
- Test the manual brushes and check that edge softening has not removed important detail.
- For a layered design, retain the editable project as well as the final export; for a reusable cutout, verify transparency in the destination application.
Match the new background to the subject's lighting, scale and perspective. Keep the untouched photograph so you can revise the selection later, and inspect the saved output rather than relying only on the editing preview.
Compared products
Review the selected cutout tool and the standard PaintShop Pro 2023 catalog edition.
Ashampoo Background Remover 2
Remove or replace photo backgrounds, refine subject cutouts and enlarge extracted objects with local AI processing.
PaintShop Pro
Edit photos and develop graphic designs with a complete image editing workspace.