Editing images

Editing starts from an image you already have and a plain-English description of the change you want. You don’t pick a tool or a model — you say what to change (“add soft shadows”, “make it look like an oil painting”, “swap the background to a beach at sunset”) and the studio handles the rest.

This is different from making an image from scratch. For a blank-canvas start, see Creating images.

Open the edit studio

There are two ways in:

• In the sidebar, click Create, then Edit image. This opens the edit studio with an empty source slot.
• From an image you already have, open it and use its actions to send it into editing with the source already attached.

The edit studio looks like the create composer, but it’s framed around one source image and the change you describe.

Pick the image to edit

The edit studio works on a Source image. Until you add one, you’ll see the hint Add a reference to pick what to edit.

Click Add reference to open the picker. From there you can:

• Upload a file from your computer, or drop one onto the picker.
• Choose from History — the images you generated most recently.
• Choose from Uploads — files your team has uploaded.
• Choose from Gallery — images across your studio.

Use the search box to find a specific image by its prompt or file name. Click an image to attach it, then click Done.

Uploads and saved assets live in your digital asset manager. To bring brand files in first, see Library and Uploading files.

Describe the change

With a source attached, type what you want in the prompt box. The placeholder reads Describe the edit you want to make…

Be specific about what changes and what stays:

• “Replace the gray background with a warm studio backdrop, keep the product centered.”
• “Make the jacket red instead of blue.”
• “Turn this photo into a watercolor painting.”
• “Remove the people in the background.”

The model named Auto chooses an editing-specialist model that keeps the parts you didn’t mention and applies only the change you asked for. You can pin a specific model from the picker if you want a particular look, but Auto is the default and the right starting point.

Set the aspect ratio if you want to reframe, and the number of Images (1 to 4) if you want a few variations to compare. Then click Generate.

Combine more than one image

Some edits need more than one reference — for example, putting a product from one shot into a scene from another, or matching the lighting of a second image.

In the Add reference picker, attach more than one image (up to four). Then describe how each should be used in your prompt:

Place the bottle from the first image into the kitchen scene from the second image, matching the warm light from the second image.

The studio uses every attached image as guidance and follows your description for how to combine them.

To learn more about guiding a generation with images, see References.

Other ways to transform an image

Not every change needs a prompt. When you open an image, its detail panel has a Tools row of one-click transforms:

Tool	What it does
Upscale	Adds resolution and detail, so the image holds up at larger sizes.
Remove BG	Cuts the subject out onto a transparent background — ready to drop onto other layouts.
Reframe	Crops images into social formats in a batch.
Vectorize	Not available yet — the button is shown, marked Soon.

Each one opens with the image you were looking at already loaded, runs on one click, and saves the result to your library beside the original. Buttons that would produce nothing useful are disabled with the reason in the tooltip — an image you’ve already upscaled, for instance.

One rule is worth knowing before you need it: upscale first, then remove the background. Upscaling fills a transparent background with white, so running it on a cutout would destroy the cutout.

For the full walkthrough, see Tools.

You can also Download the result or Regenerate to try the same prompt again.

Background removal works best when the subject stands clearly apart from the background.

Turn a still into a short video

Any image can become a short video clip. Open it in the Gallery and click Animate. The video composer opens with your image set as the starting frame and its prompt carried over. Describe the motion you want, then generate.

For pacing, length, and the rest of the video controls, see Creating video.

Tips

• Change one thing at a time. Smaller, specific edits land more reliably than a long list of changes in one prompt.
• Say what to keep. “Keep the logo and the product, change only the background” helps the model preserve what matters.
• Generate a few variations. Set Images to 2–4 and pick the best result.
• Chain edits. Use Edit on a result to feed it back as the new source and refine from there.