Sometimes a shot is almost right. The frame is good but the shoes are wrong,
or a stranger wandered into the background, or swapping the bag for this
season’s style would make the whole image usable.
Generating from scratch won’t help there — the model, background, and light
all change with it. Image Edit is built for exactly this situation:
it holds everything else still and changes only what you point at.
And it goes further than removing flaws. Swap just the bag in last season’s
shot for this year’s stock and you have a new-season cut without a shoot,
or take one good frame and multiply it into variations — a new angle,
a new pose, a new hair color. Those recipes are collected in
Image Edit: 5 Ways to Use It;
this guide covers the mechanics underneath them.
What Image Edit does
Open Image Edit in the sidebar, give it one source image and an instruction
saying what to change and how, and it returns one new image.
The source can come from three places: a result you already generated,
something saved in My Assets, or a direct upload.
You can also jump straight here from the edit button on any gallery card.
On top of that, two optional inputs do the real work,
and they’re what this guide is about: a reference image showing what to
put in, and a mask narrowing down where to look. Let’s walk through each
with a real example.
Method 1. Swap something out with a reference
Use a reference when you’re replacing one thing with another.
Upload a photo of the replacement, then say what becomes what in the instruction.
In the example below, the source is a backpack held up against the sky,
and the reference is a single handbag product shot on white.
The instruction was one line: replace the bag in the photo with the handbag
from the reference.
The sky, the clouds, and the gray knit sleeve stayed as they were — only the
bag changed. Look closely at the hand, though: in the source the fingers hook
through a backpack strap, and in the result they close around the handbag’s
handle instead. The object wasn’t pasted over; the way it’s held was redrawn too.
The takeaway: your reference doesn’t need to be editorial. One product shot on white is enough.
And bags aren’t the only thing you can swap. Real instructions have replaced
sneakers, dress shoes, a perfume bottle, even an entire outfit — the pattern
is always the same.
Here’s what the clothing case looks like — the same cut with only the skirt changed.
The top, the model, the pose, and the studio all stay put — only the skirt’s
length and silhouette change. One shoot can show a length variation too.
The same goes for props. Adding or removing a single bag changes how the cut reads.
Method 2. Touch up one region with a mask
When there’s nothing to swap in and you just want to fix part of the frame,
use a mask instead. Draw over the source with the rectangle or lasso
tool, and if the selection comes out wrong, clear it and draw again.
Here’s an example: a shot with a second person caught in the background.
A rectangle went around the figure at the lower left, with an instruction to
remove the person inside the selected area.
Sky and clouds fill the space where the figure was, and the subject’s pose,
clothes, and expression are untouched.
One thing worth knowing here: a mask is a hint, not a cutting line.
It tells the model “focus here,” not “never cross this edge.”
So give your selection some breathing room rather than tracing it tight.
Writing the instruction
Whether you use a reference or a mask, the instruction is what decides the
result — neither input does anything without one. A few habits help.
Change one thing at a time. The app says as much on screen.
If you want new shoes, no background stranger, and a different hair color,
that’s three edits, and running them separately keeps each one stable.
Name what becomes what. “Change the bag” is weaker than
“replace the bag in the photo with the handbag from the reference.”
If you attached a reference, point at it in the instruction too.
Say what should stay. One real instruction read: replace the headphones
with the ones from the reference, and keep the pose of the headphones as it is.
Naming only the change lets the surroundings drift, and one sentence about
what to preserve steadies the result.
Where people get stuck
A few practical limits come up often, so here they are in one place.
An empty instruction won’t generate. You need both a source and an instruction.
Uploads cap at 20MB, in JPG or PNG.
HEIC and AVIF straight off a phone get converted to JPEG in the browser,
but that conversion occasionally fails — if it does, save as JPG and upload again.
Results vary from run to run. That’s generative AI: the same instruction,
mask, and reference won’t produce two identical images.
Check anything where precision matters, like a logo or a print.
You can only edit your own images.
The source has to belong to you or to an account in your company.
Credits and plans
One edit costs 5 credits and returns one image.
Edited results collect under the Image Edit filter in your gallery.
Image Edit is included from the Standard plan up, and lower plans get
free runs to try it: 2 on Free, 3 per month on Starter.
Once those run out, upgrade or wait for the next month.
Keeping the good frames
Instead of rebooking a shoot over one pair of shoes or one passerby,
you fix that one thing for 5 credits and keep everything else.
That’s the whole point of Image Edit — and the more good frames you build up,
the more often saving one beats remaking one.
Take the shot you just made and fix the one thing that bothers you.
