Editing AI Illustrations

Sometimes your generated illustrations can be almost perfect, but contain inconsistent details that don’t align with the story passage they’re illustrating.

In this guide, we’ll show you how to edit your illustrations with AI, just by highlighting parts of an image and describing your intended edits.

Opening the editor

To get started, open a project in the editor and find an image you’d like to edit. Hover or click the image and select the ” click to tune” button to open the tune menu (or press Command + /). From this menu, you can perform a variety of actions, including deleting the image, or moving it up / down in the editor, but we want to click the ” Edit Picture” option.

The picture editor has two inputs - the canvas, displaying the current version of your image, and the edit description textarea.

Highlighting areas to edit

First, paint over your image to highlight every area of the image that needs to be edited. Use the undo button to reverse your painting, clear to reset entirely, and adjust the brush size to detail small sections or fill in large areas. This guides the AI to only edit the areas you select, so everything else will be kept as-is.

Describing edits

Second, describe how the image should now look - we recommend using descriptive language, as in our previous guide on creating illustrations from scratch, but it’s important to note your edit descriptions should only focus on what you want to be added to the picture - describe an entire image and you’ll notice the AI will try and cram all those elements into the small space you’ve highlighted, often with poor results.

Finally, image edits are powered by DALLE 2, the predecessor to the DALLE 3 AI we use to create this images orignally - as such, you might find it’s not as good at certain types of drawing - in these cases, try creating a brand new illustration from scratch, adding in new details to account for what was missed previously.