Retouch is where you fix an image without leaving the ad: take out a stray object, replace part of a photo, sharpen a soft shot or enlarge a small one. Every tool works on the image in the current layer and writes its result back onto that layer, so the preview, PNG exports and video renders all use the retouched version straight away.
Open it from Canvas with Retouch Image on the layer panel, or the pencil icon (Edit image) on an image layer. The Retouch tab appears, and Back to Canvas takes you home when you are done. If the layer is cropped, the tools work on the cropped area and the result is fitted back into the full image.
#Retouch
Erase - draw rectangles on areas you want to remove and they are filled in from their surroundings.
Inpaint - draw rectangles on the image, then describe what to generate in each region. Pick a Fill model to trade cost against quality.
Quality - photoreal detail pass. Same composition, visibly sharper. Faces are not rewritten.
Upscale - enlarge the image with AI. Clarity is sharp, Creative adds detail, and a third option is fast and faithful.
Describe reads the current image and writes you a prompt to start from. Results land back on the layer, so exports and renders pick them up.
The Retouch panel has four modes across the top (Erase, Inpaint, Quality, Upscale), a Describe button and Cancel, which clears your regions and leaves the mode.
- Quality is a detail pass: the same picture, visibly sharper, with faces and products left as they are. Press Photoreal quality. Use it on generated images that look a little soft, or on a stock photo that needs to hold up at full size.
- Upscale makes the image bigger. Clarity Upscaler (sharp) is the default and keeps edges crisp; Creative Upscaler (detailed) invents fine texture; the third option is quick, cheap and stays closest to the original. Clarity and Creative double the size.
- Describe looks at the image and writes a 40 to 80 word prompt that would recreate it, into the GenAI and AI Edit prompt boxes. It is the fastest way to make a variation of a photo you like.
Versions and undo
Every result replaces the layer's image and is added to its history. The Media section shows a counter such as "(3/4)" with arrows to step back through earlier versions, including the original. If a retouch goes wrong, step back one.
A retouch on one format belongs to that format: your 9:16 image changes, the 1:1 does not. To use the retouched image in another format, switch to it and pick the image from the library (see Generate for how format ownership works).
To start a format again from the untouched picture, use Revert to original, the round arrow at the top left of the picture in Media (see Revert to original). It puts back the picture you loaded in this format only; the edits stay in history.
What it costs
Each run spends credits from your balance: Erase A$0.24, Inpaint from A$0.14 to A$0.38 depending on the fill model, Quality A$0.38, Upscale A$0.18 (A$0.05 for the fast option) and Describe A$0.03.
#AI Tools
AI Tools is the row of four buttons at the top of the Retouch tab: Erase, Inpaint, Quality and Upscale. Each opens the Retouch panel in that mode. Erase and Inpaint add the drawing surface over the preview; Quality and Upscale work on the whole image, so there is nothing to draw.
The buttons are greyed out until the layer has an image. Generate one with GenAI, or pick one from the library or your computer, then come back.
Which tool to reach for:
- Something in the photo should not be there: Erase.
- Something should be different: Inpaint, or AI Edit for a change you can describe in a sentence.
- The photo is right but soft: Quality.
- The photo is right but small: Upscale.
Ideas
- Erase the logo on a supplier's product shot, then Inpaint the client's own packaging in its place.
- Upscale a low-resolution photo from the client's website before using it in a 16:9 hero ad.
- Run Quality on a generated lifestyle image before a close crop in a 9:16 story.
#AI Edit
Once the layer has an image, the GenAI section becomes AI Edit. Type what you want changed in Edit instruction and press Edit with AI. There are no regions to draw: the instruction covers the whole picture, and the model aims to keep what you did not mention. The result stays at the ad format's size.
The Model list offers several edit models, labelled by what they are good at (best, fast, detail, cheapest). One of them removes the background and needs no instruction at all. Colour and logo chips work here too, so "{c1} background" uses the brand's first colour.
AI Edit is best for changes you can say in a sentence: light, weather, time of day, background, mood, removing a whole object. For a change confined to one small area, Inpaint is more precise.
Worked example
A 4:5 café ad has a lovely interior shot, taken on a grey day.
- Open Retouch and, in AI Edit, type "warm morning sunlight through the windows, soft shadows".
- Press Edit with AI. The new version replaces the image and the counter reads (2/2).
- Not quite? Step back with the arrow and try "golden hour light" instead.
Ideas
- "Make the background a soft blur" on a product photo so the headline reads over it.
- "Change the season to winter" to reuse a summer campaign's photo for the holiday push.
- Remove the background of a product shot and place it on a brand-colour gradient layer.
#Erase and Inpaint
Erase auto-fills each region from its surroundings, so anything you box out disappears. Leave the prompt blank.
Add as many regions as you like, then run it. The result lands back on the layer's image, so exports and renders pick it up automatically.
- With Inpaint selected: Draw rectangles on the preview to mark regions.
Inpaint regenerates each region from the words you type into it, so you can replace what is inside the box with something else.
Add as many regions as you like, then run it. The result lands back on the layer's image, so exports and renders pick it up automatically.
Erase and Inpaint both work on regions: rectangles you drag on the image. In either mode the image fills the preview so you can draw precisely.
- Choose Erase or Inpaint.
- Drag a rectangle over each area. Each one becomes a card (Region 1, Region 2...) in its own colour; remove one with its x.
- Press Erase, or Run Inpaint.
Erase has no prompt: each region is filled in from what surrounds it, so the object simply disappears. Draw the box a little larger than the object so its shadow goes too.
Inpaint gives each region its own box: "Describe what to generate...". With several regions, each gets its own description, so one run can replace a cup with a bottle and a grey sky with blue. Pick the Fill model: the recommended default suits most jobs, and the list runs from a cheap option to a maximum-quality one.
Draw as many regions as you need in one run; it costs the same as a single region.
Worked example
A 9:16 sale ad for sneakers, shot on a street with a bin and a parked car behind.
- Choose Erase and box the bin and the car. Press Erase; both are gone.
- Switch to Inpaint, box the empty wall and type "a bright mural in teal and orange".
- Press Run Inpaint. The wall now carries a mural behind the product.
Ideas
- Erase passers-by from a location shot so the product is the only subject.
- Inpaint the price on a shop sign to match the offer in the headline.
- Box the sky and Inpaint "clear evening sky" to leave clean space for the headline.