Edit images with AI

Open the image AI bar

1. Click an image on the canvas to select it.
2. In the title bar above the image, click the AI button (AI actions for this image). The image AI bar opens under the image.

The bar has a text field for changes to the whole image and a row of tools: Edit area, Erase, Remove background, Resize, and Upscale. Hover over a tool to see what it does and what it costs in credits. On a phone the same options open in a sheet from the bottom of the screen.

You need Can edit access (or be the room owner). The bar closes when you click the AI button again, press Esc, select something else, or enter Focus Mode.

Change the whole image

1. In the field Describe a change to this image…, type what should change, for example "make it golden hour". You can also click Dictate and speak (room transcription must be on).
2. Click Apply edit or press Enter.
3. While it works, the bar shows Editing the image with Stop.

The new version replaces the image in place, keeping its size, position, and crop. The message Image updated. has Undo to bring back the previous version.

Change or erase part of an image

1. Click Edit area (to change something) or Erase (to remove something).
2. Paint over the area with the Brush. Use Eraser to take paint off, Size to change the brush, and Undo, Redo, or Clear selection as needed. Cmd+Z and Shift+Cmd+Z (Ctrl on Windows) undo and redo your painting while this mode is open.
3. For Edit area, describe the change, for example "add a hot air balloon", and click Generate. For Erase, click Erase.
4. Only the painted area changes; the rest of the image stays exactly as it was. Erase also removes the object's shadow and reflection.

The message Image updated. Only the painted area changed. (or Object removed.) offers Undo. Click Stop while it works to cancel; your painting and text stay. Close or Esc leaves the mode. These two tools are not available for rotated images.

Remove the background

Click Remove background. It runs right away: the subject stays and everything else becomes transparent, in the same frame. The result is saved as a PNG, and Background removed. offers Undo.

If the image has no clear subject, you see Couldn't find a subject to keep. Try again. and the image does not change.

Resize to other formats

Resize makes new versions of the image in other aspect ratios. AI extends the scene to fill the new shape, so nothing of the original is cropped. The original stays as it is, and the new images appear beside it.

1. Click Resize.
2. Tick one or more sizes. Standard has Square 1:1, Portrait 3:4, Story 9:16, Landscape 4:3, and Widescreen 16:9. Below it are platform sizes for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snap, and X. Select all ticks a whole group, and a size marked Current already matches the image.
3. Click Generate. Sizes with the same ratio are generated once (Matching ratios are generated once.), and up to 4 images run at a time.

You can also type a request such as "all Instagram sizes" in the bar's text field. The Resize list opens with those sizes ticked so you can check them before you generate.

Upscale

Upscale makes a higher-resolution copy of the image. It redraws the image, so check the result.

1. Click Upscale.
2. Under Resolution, pick the size you want.
3. Click Upscale to and the resolution (for example Upscale to 2K).

The copy appears beside the original, and a before-and-after view lets you drag to compare. If the image has transparency, the result does not keep it. Higher resolutions may need the Pro plan (Upgrade to Pro to upscale this image.).

Good to know

• Each tool's cost in credits shows when you hover over it, and on the Generate and Apply edit buttons. See Plans, upgrading and plan limits.
• While you edit an image with AI, other people in the room see that it is being edited and cannot replace or delete it until you finish.
• GIF and SVG images can be edited, but the result is a still, flat image.
• To swap an image for a different file instead, use Replace an image on the canvas.

If something goes wrong

• Couldn't edit the image. Try again., Couldn't resize the image. Try again., or Couldn't upscale the image. Try again.: click Retry. Nothing changed.
• Someone else is editing this image.: wait until they finish.
• AI is still working on this image.: one AI edit runs per image at a time.
• The image changed while you were editing. Try again.: someone replaced the image during your edit.