AI Image Editor

Describe the change instead of making it: remove what shouldn't be there, swap a background, change an outfit, restyle the whole frame. Ten models behind one box, three free edits a day.

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AI Image Editor
AI Image Editor

Input

JPG · PNG · WebP · HEIC, 20 MB

Jobs

Remove · replace · restyle · retouch

Models available

10, selectable per edit

Preserved

Everything you don't name

Max output

Up to 4K on Nano Banana 2

Free tier

3 edits daily, no account

Your uploads

Deleted within 24 hours

Our one-line verdict: the most underrated half of AI imaging. Editing what exists beats regenerating from scratch on cost, control, and how often you get what you actually pictured.

Most AI image work doesn't start with a blank prompt box — it starts with a photo that's almost right. The bin in the corner, the background that doesn't suit the listing, the jacket that's wrong for the season, the face that belongs to someone who left the company. Editing solves those without throwing away the composition, lighting and proportions you already have, which is why the hit rate is so much higher than generating a replacement and hoping it matches. The trick that makes it work is counterintuitive and takes one sentence to learn: name what must stay, not just what changes. Everything on this page assumes that.

Step by step

How to edit a photo with AI in 3 steps

Under a minute end to end. The tips below matter more than any setting on the page.

Upload the image

Highest-resolution copy you have. Editing preserves what's already there, so a better source means a better result — more so than in generation.

Say what changes — and what must not

The protection clause is the whole trick: 'remove the bin on the left, keep the subject, her pose, the shopfront and the light exactly as they are.'

Draft free, compare, export

Run it on the free tier, then check the untouched areas really are untouched before you spend anything.

In practice

What people edit

Three workflows this page gets used for daily.
E-commerce

One shoot, every context

A single product photo placed in a dozen backgrounds — studio, lifestyle, seasonal — without rebooking a shoot or rebuilding a set.

Photographers

The fix that used to take an hour

A bin, a stray cable, a passer-by at the edge of frame. What was a careful clone-stamp session is now a sentence and fifteen seconds.

Marketing teams

Localising existing creative

Swapping text, props or seasonal details per market while the layout, the model and the brand elements stay exactly where they were.

Honest read

Where it works well — and where it struggles

The right column is half technical limits and half rules we've chosen. Knowing the failure modes before you upload saves more time than any guide.

Where it works well

  • • Control that prompts can't buy.

    You're editing a real image, so composition, proportion and lighting are already correct — the model only changes what you named.

  • • Cheaper than regenerating.

    One targeted edit beats twenty full generations hoping for the same framing. It's the difference between fixing and gambling.

  • • Multi-turn refinement.

    On the newest models edits stack across turns without the subject drifting — five successive changes still leave your product recognisably yours.

  • • Layered output on one model.

    Seedream 5.0 Pro returns editable PNG layers, so the last mile happens in your design tool rather than in another prompt.

Where it struggles

  • • Precise logos and fine print.

    Exact logo placement and small text can drift when regenerated. Do the visual here and place critical text in your design tool.

  • • Heavy edits become new images.

    Ask for enough change and preservation breaks down — at some point the honest move is generating fresh with your image as a reference.

  • • Low-resolution sources.

    Editing a small, soft photo produces a bigger soft photo. Start from the best original you have.

  • • Photos of people who didn't agree.

    Your own images or ones you hold the rights to. No public figures, no minors, nothing built to deceive or humiliate.

Pick the right tool

Which edit do you need?

Six jobs, each with a tool built for it. All of them are free to start, and all of them run on the same uploads.
Remove or replace an object
Name the thing and the timestamped place it sits, then list what must survive. The box at the top of this page handles it across ten models.
Change a background completely
Studio to lifestyle, grey seamless to a real room — with the subject, its shadow and its rim light preserved.
Change what someone is wearing
Describe the outfit or upload the actual garment; the person, pose and background stay put.
Swimwear specifically
The same mechanic tuned for swimwear try-on and product visuals, with the rules that category needs.
Replace a face
Up to ten faces per photo, re-lit to the picture's own conditions rather than pasted flat.
Edit a video instead of a photo
Same idea, moving: restyle, remove objects, extend past the last frame.
Pick your engine

Which model should run the edit?

Same upload, different engine depending on the job. Each is a chip in the box above — draft free, then take the link when the brief gets specific.

Several edits in a row

GPT Image 2.5

Edits accumulate across turns without the subject drifting, at roughly half the previous generation's latency. The model for refining rather than re-rolling.

GPT Image 2.5
Point at the exact spot

Seedream 5.0 Pro

Point, lasso or sketch the region — and get 10+ editable transparent layers back, so the next revision happens in Figma instead of the prompt box.

Seedream 5.0 Pro
Speed, volume and 4K

Nano Banana 2

Google's default: Flash-speed edits up to 4K, with consistency across five characters and fourteen objects when a whole set needs the same treatment.

Nano Banana 2
Brand-exact product work

FLUX.3

Multiple reference images steering one edit, hex-code colour fidelity, and in-place editing at 4MP.

FLUX.3
Facts that must stay right

Nano Banana Pro

Reasoning-backed edits for infographics and text-heavy layouts, where changing one element mustn't break the numbers around it.

Nano Banana Pro
Vector output, not pixels

Grok Imagine 2

The only model here that returns genuine editable SVG — for when the edit's destination is a logo or an icon set.

Grok Imagine 2
FAQ

Questions, answered straight

1. How do I edit a photo with AI?

Upload the image, describe the change and — this is the part that matters — name what must stay the same. 'Replace the background with a sunlit workshop, keep the product, its shadow and the rim light exactly as they are.' Then draft it free, check the untouched areas, and export.

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