I've been working for weeks on a project to update the photography on the site. I always wanted to have images of the mugs without backgrounds, I feel like it looks much cleaner. However with almost 5000 mugs on the site editing all of those images manually is an impossible task. Recently I found a piece of software that expertly removes the backgrounds.
Here is a before and after example:
It's still a laborious process to replace the 6 images of each mug. But I'm thrilled with the results and will continue until the transition is complete.