Image Studio

Image Studio is Ideogram's image editor: a canvas where you refine, extend, composite, and export images using AI tools and layers. It replaces the legacy Canvas and Editor workflows.

To open it, click Image Studio in the sidebar's Tools section. Studio starts by asking for an image: Upload image brings in a file, Browse Library picks one of your existing generations.

The workspace

Once an image is loaded, the workspace has:

• Left toolbar — Select, Upload image, My images (your library), and the Text tool.

• Canvas — your image, with a resolution badge in its corner. Zoom and undo/redo sit at the bottom right.

• Right panel — the editing tools, and the Layers list below them.

• Version carousel (bottom) — every generation becomes a version thumbnail; click + to branch a new version from the selected one.

• Top right — your credit balance and the Export button for downloading the result.

Generative tools consume credits like regular generations — the balance at the top right updates as you work.

Canvas tools

With nothing selected, the right panel's tools act on the whole canvas:

AI edit

Describe the changes you want in plain language, set how many variants to generate (Count), and click Generate. Each result lands in the version carousel.

Extend

Grow the canvas in any direction, then generate content for the new space. Drag the corner handles to set the new bounds (the target ratio is shown above the frame), optionally describe what should appear in the extended space, and click Extend.

Regenerate

Re-run the generation that produced the image. Only available for images generated on Ideogram (not uploads).

Remix

Use the canvas as a base and generate variations. The Strength slider controls how closely the result follows the current canvas — higher stays closer, lower gives your prompt more influence.

Reframe

Choose a new aspect ratio for the canvas — square, portrait (9:16, 2:3, 3:4, 4:5), or landscape (21:9, 16:9, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4) — then click Reframe to generate the recomposed image.

Layerize text

Detects text in the image and turns it into editable text layers, so you can refine the copy, placement, and styling precisely instead of re-generating.

Working with layers

Click any image on the canvas to select it as a layer. A Quick edit bar appears above it — type a change directly, or use the ⋯ menu to arrange (Bring to front, Send to back, Bring forward, Send backward), Copy, or Delete the layer. Add more layers with the Upload or My images tools, and reorder everything from the Layers list.

Selecting a layer also switches the right panel to per-layer tools: Replace image, AI edit, Remix, Select area, Extend, Upscale (add detail and sharpness so the layer holds up as you keep editing), Layerize text, Remove background (cut out just this layer's background), and Crop.

Select area

Paint over part of a layer with the brush (adjustable Brush size), then describe exactly what to change in the selected area and click Generate. Use it for targeted edits that leave the rest of the layer untouched.

Text layers

The T tool in the left toolbar adds a text layer. Select it to edit the content inline and style it from the right panel: font (searchable, with sans serif, serif, slab serif, and display categories), size, color, alignment, and bold/italic/underline/strikethrough.

Versions and exporting

Every generation adds a version to the carousel at the bottom — switch between them freely, click + to start a new version from the selected one, or delete a version you don't need (this only removes it from the carousel). When you're happy, click Export at the top right to download the result.