CLIPDocs

Retouching & cutouts

The four tools you'll reach for most: change it, erase it, cut it out, enlarge it.

Edit Now — ⚡5

The general-purpose one. Describe a change and Clip makes it.

make the linen deep green remove the reflection on the left give it late afternoon light instead

It handles colour, lighting, materials, weather, small additions and small removals. Work one change at a time — a single clear instruction lands far more reliably than three stacked into one sentence.

Point at something specific. If the change applies to one part of the picture, drop a mark on it first and refer to it. "Replace ① with a white cup" is unambiguous in a way that "replace the cup on the left" isn't.

Edit Now also answers to Tab when an image is selected.

Eraser — ⚡4

Brush over anything you want gone and it disappears, with the space behind it filled in convincingly.

The eraser controls

Enter the mode, set the brush size, and paint over the object. You don't need to be precise — cover the thing and a little around it. Undo strokes or clear them all, then press Erase.

It's the right tool for a stray object, a logo you can't use, a person in the background, or a blemish. For something larger, or where you need control over what replaces it, use Edit Now and describe the replacement.

Remove BG — ⚡2

One click, and the subject is cut out with a transparent background.

The cheapest AI action in Clip, and the one that does the most work per credit. Use it whenever you need a product on a colour, a subject inside a frame, or an element to composite.

The result is a new image with transparency, so it sits cleanly over anything you place it on. Export it as PNG to keep the transparency — see Exporting.

Upscale — ⚡4

Increases resolution, reconstructing detail rather than just enlarging pixels.

Reach for it when a picture is going to print, onto a billboard, or onto a large screen — or when you generated at 1K to save credits and now need the good version.

Generate small while you're exploring and upscale only the one you choose. It's much cheaper than generating everything at 4K.

Working order

There's a sensible sequence when you're doing several:

  1. Edit Now for content changes, while the picture is still cheap to redo.
  2. Eraser for what's left over.
  3. Remove BG once the subject is right.
  4. Upscale last, when nothing else will change.

Upscaling first just means paying to enlarge something you're about to replace.

Next: Reshaping images.