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# Remove your camera background with Cut out

> Use a Cut out layout to remove your camera background and place yourself directly on the canvas.

Cut out removes the background from your camera recording, so you can place yourself directly over your canvas or screen recording without a camera frame.

## Apply a Cut out layout

1. Open a video that contains a camera recording.
2. Click **Layout** in the editor sidebar.
3. Find **Cut out** and select the layout tile.
4. If your clip contains both a screen and camera, choose which side of the screen to place yourself on. In a portrait or square video, choose whether to appear above or below the screen.

Tella may show **Preparing cut-out** while it processes your camera recording. You can keep editing while it prepares the result, but **Download** stays unavailable until processing finishes.

## Turn Cut-out on or off while customizing a layout

You can add or remove the Cut-out camera style without changing the rest of a layout:

1. Open **Layout** and select **Customize layout**.
2. Find the **Cut-out** control for the camera. On a fullscreen camera layout it is a toggle; on other camera layouts, choose **Cut-out** under **Camera style** (pick another shape, such as **Circle**, to turn it off).
3. Turn **Cut-out** on to remove the camera background, or off to restore the camera frame.

You can continue to move and resize yourself on the canvas after applying Cut-out.

<Tip>Cut-out works best when you are clearly visible and separated from your background.</Tip>

## Related

* [Create a pop-out camera effect](/docs/help/editing/create-a-pop-out-camera-effect): keep a camera frame and rise out of it. Choosing Cut out turns Pop-out off, because there is no frame to pop out of.
* [Put overlays behind the presenter](/docs/help/editing/overlays-behind-the-presenter): place text, media, or stickers behind you.


## Related topics

- [Create a pop-out camera effect](/docs/help/editing/create-a-pop-out-camera-effect.md)
- [Custom layouts](/docs/help/editing/custom-layouts.md)
- [Put overlays behind the presenter](/docs/help/editing/overlays-behind-the-presenter.md)
- [Layouts](/docs/help/editing/use-layouts.md)
- [Export raw camera and screen recordings](/docs/help/export-videos/export-raw-recordings.md)