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title: "Editing images"
description: "An overview of Clip's AI image toolbar: what each edit costs, the rules worth knowing, customising the toolbar, and why some tools don't appear."
url: https://clip.sg/docs/editing-images
last_updated: 2026-09-16
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# Editing images

A generated image isn't finished, it's a starting point. Select any image on the canvas — generated, uploaded, or from stock — and a toolbar of AI actions appears above it.

![The image toolbar](https://clip.sg/docs/images/image-toolbar.webp)

## Reading the toolbar

Every AI action shows its price on the button. Tools with no price are free.

| Tool | Cost | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| **Edit Now** | ⚡14+ | Describe a change in plain words |
| **Upscale** | ⚡4 | More resolution, for print or big screens |
| **Remove BG** | ⚡4 | Clean cut-out, one click |
| **Eraser** | ⚡8 | Brush something out; the gap fills in |
| **Create Layers** | ⚡10 | Split the picture into separate pieces |
| **Edit text** | ⚡1 | Rewrite words inside the picture |
| **Adjust** | free | Brightness, contrast, colour |
| **Expand** | ⚡8 | Extend the picture beyond its edges |

The **⋯** button holds the rest:

![The rest of the image tools](https://clip.sg/docs/images/image-tools-overflow.webp)

| Tool | Cost | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| **Multi-angle** | ⚡7 | The same subject from other camera angles |
| **Move object** | ⚡14+ | Drag something to a different place in the picture |
| **Crop** | free | Reframe without squashing |
| **Rotate & Flip** | free | Turn and mirror |
| **Vectorize** | ⚡3 | Convert to crisp, scalable line art |
| **Mockup** | — | Coming soon |

**⚡14+** means the price follows the size of the picture you're editing: ⚡14 below 2K, ⚡20 from 2K, ⚡30 at 4K. Every other price is flat.

## Two rules worth knowing

**Your original is never destroyed.** AI edits produce new work alongside the source. If an edit isn't right, you still have what you started with.

**The price is on the button before you press it.** No action spends credits without showing you the figure first.

## Make the toolbar yours

You can pin your favourite tools to the main bar and let the rest live under **⋯**. Use the customise control at the end of the toolbar. Eight tools fit on the bar; the order is fixed so things stay where your hand expects them.

## What happens while an edit runs

Edits behave like any other generation: a progress indicator, a timer, and results that survive a page reload. Several can run at once, up to your plan's limit.

## Tools that don't appear

The toolbar adapts to what it's looking at.

- **Vector images** get a short toolbar — rotate, flip and download. The raster tools don't apply to line art, and re-vectorising something that's already vector would just cost credits for nothing.
- **3D models** get **View in 3D** and **Download**.
- **Video** gets playback controls.

## Where to go next

- [Retouching & cutouts](https://clip.sg/docs/retouching-and-cutouts) — Edit Now, Eraser, Remove BG, Upscale
- [Reshaping images](https://clip.sg/docs/reshaping-images) — Expand, Multi-angle, Move object, Edit text, Create Layers, Vectorize
- [Free editing tools](https://clip.sg/docs/free-editing-tools) — Crop, Rotate & Flip, Adjust

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**Next:** [Retouching & cutouts](https://clip.sg/docs/retouching-and-cutouts).