Monitored installation -- tested -- removed. One positive is that it doesn't seem to use a discreet GPU [graphics card], so those without one should still be able to use it. When you import an image/photo it attempts to find & select the main subject. Then you paint over the areas it missed, and then paint over any areas it should not have included. You do not have be super accurate with your painting, which is good since the paint tools are a bit crude, and the app seems to take the parts you painted as more of a guide. Next you select if you want a transparent background [the background is saved in the file as an alpha layer] or if you want to replace it, and then save the edited image. You can also upscale the image if you want. What I didn't like was the soft, fuzzy edges marking the boundary of the part(s) you saved. Note that some of the controls or buttons can be hidden if you resize the app's window too small.

For anyone who might be a bit too impressed with the AI in Ashampoo Background Remover 2, the state of the art is not only automatically selecting subjects, but being able to select from a menu the parts you want to edit or change, e.g., eyes, teeth, shirt/blouse, hair etc. And rather than just pasting an object on a background, the latest models can alter that object so the colors and lighting fit with the new background, including adding the appropriate shadows.

Installation isn't terrible, though I personally dislike software putting too much in the User files. The program's folder takes up 393MB, with the folder added to Users\ [UserName]\ AppData\ Local\ taking up 526MB. Most of the impact to the registry comes from the included Microsoft C/C++ runtime installation -- otherwise I recorded 4 new keys plus several entries for file type associations with common image file types.