Upload and Place Images

Your own photos, product shots and logos make a design yours. Here's every way to get an image onto the canvas and what you can do with it once it's there.

Uploading

• Uploads tab. Open Uploads in the left side panel and drop files onto the dropzone, or click it to browse. You can upload several at once. Uploaded images stay in your library so you can reuse them in other designs.

• Drag and drop. Drag an image file from your desktop straight onto the canvas.

• Paste. Copy an image anywhere, click the canvas, press Cmd/Ctrl + V.

• From a URL. When you paste a product page or article link into the AI Designer, the AI can pull real images off that page instead of generating new ones.

• Brand Kit. Your logos and brand assets are one click away in the Brand Kit tab (Pro and Ultra).

• Stock and AI. The Assets tab searches stock photos; the Media Generator tab creates AI images from a prompt (5 credits each).

Any common image format works (PNG, JPG, WebP, SVG and so on). PNG keeps transparency, which matters for logos and cutouts.

Placing and sizing

Click Image in the add bar to drop one of your uploads onto the current slide, then drag to move, use the corner handles to resize (proportions stay locked; hold Shift to free them) and the arrow keys to nudge. Orange guides snap the image to other elements and to the slide edges. The Align menu in the toolbar centers it or pins it to any edge.

Swapping an image

Select the image and click Swap in the toolbar above it to pick another upload. The new file takes the exact position and size of the old one, so swapping visuals never breaks the layout.

Cropping

Click Crop (or select the image and press Enter). The parts outside the frame dim, a rule-of-thirds grid appears, and you can drag the eight handles to reframe or drag the photo itself to move it inside the frame. Done keeps it, Reset shows the whole image again, Esc cancels. A cropped image stays cropped when you resize it later, and the crop exports exactly as you see it.

Corners

The Corners button rounds the image's corners with a live slider, from square to fully round.

Removing the background

Hit the sparkle button in the image toolbar and pick Remove background. The cutout replaces the original in place. This costs 5 credits, and you're only charged when it succeeds.

Masks, borders and filters

Open the Design panel with the image selected:

• Masks. Ask the AI to clip an image to a circle, ellipse, rounded rectangle, pill, organic blob or arch ("mask the portrait as a circle"). Masks scale with the image.

• Border. Toggle a border in the Effects section and set its width, color and corner radius; on a masked image the ring follows the mask.

• Filters. Duotone, vintage, grain overlay, blur-background-only, high-contrast black and white, cinematic.

• Image effects. Vignette, chromatic aberration, pixelate, halftone, scanlines and film grain, each with an intensity slider.

• Blur. Soft blur, horizontal or vertical motion blur, radial blur.

• Shadow, glow, blend mode, opacity. Shadows follow the alpha of a cutout PNG, so a product cutout casts a real product-shaped shadow.

Full-bleed photo backgrounds

If you want a photo behind everything, don't stack an image at the back. Open the Background tab instead: any background can carry a full-bleed photo with an optional blur, texture overlay and dual-tone treatment. See Change Backgrounds.

Layering

Cmd/Ctrl + ] and [ move an image up and down the stack; the right-click menu has Bring to Front and Send to Back.

Tips

• Upload the largest version you have. Exports at 2× to 4× reveal soft, low-res sources.

• Put a semi-transparent shape or a dark-glass card between a busy photo and your text.

• Ask the AI: "replace the hero photo with a warmer stock image" or "cut out the product and add a soft shadow."