📸 Automate Photo Background Removal with Photoroom API and Google Drive

Tags: Marketing, Image Processing, Automation

Context

Hey! I’m Samir, a Data Scientist from Paris and the founder of LogiGreen Consulting.

We use AI, automation, and data to support sustainable business practices for small, medium and large companies.

I implemented this workflow to support an event agency to automate image processing like background removal using Photoroom API.

> Automate your photos processing with n8n!

This n8n workflow collects all images in a Google Drive folder shared with multiple photographers.

For each image, it calls the Photoroom API: A processed image w/o a background is saved in a subfolder Remove Background The original pictures are saved in the subfolder Original

This workflow, triggered every morning, will process the backlog of images.

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Who is this template for?

This workflow is useful for: Digital Marketing** teams that use images for content creation Photographs* or Event Organisers* that collect large amounts of photos that need processing What does it do?

This n8n workflow: ⏰ Triggers automatically every morning
🖼️ Collects the names and IDs of all images in the folder 🧹 HTTP POST request to Photoroom API to remove the background 📄 Stores the processed image and the original image in two separate sub-folders

What do I need to get started?

You’ll need: A Google Drive Account connected to your n8n instance with credentials A Photoroom API key that you can get for free (trial) here: Photoroom API

Follow the Guide!

Follow the sticky notes inside the workflow or check out my step-by-step tutorial on how to configure and deploy it.

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This workflow was built using n8n version 1.93.0
Submitted: May 26, 2025