Image Features

Image Features: edit, enhance, and generate visuals with AI

Everything you need to make images look great at scale. Use the Creative APIs for automation, or embed the Editor SDK for in-product editing.

  • Remove and replace backgrounds with clean cutouts
  • Upscale and enhance quality with 3 tiers (Upscale, Ultra Upscale, Ultra Enhance)
  • Apply effects, AI looks, adjustments, blur, masks, and style transfer
  • Convert, prepare, and standardize images for web, ads, and print
  • Use GenAI to generate or edit new visuals when you need fresh content fast
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Image Features: edit, enhance, and generate visuals with AI

Ways to use Image Features

From APIs for developers to no-code automation for teams, there is a path for every workflow.

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APIs

Automate image editing in your app or backend. Remove backgrounds, upscale, apply effects, and more. Run it on demand or in bulk.

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Photo and Video Editor SDK

Embed a full editor UI in your product. Let users edit images with the tools you choose, without building an editor from scratch.

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Custom Enterprise Solutions

Need SLAs, security reviews, volume pricing, or white-label delivery? Get a solution tailored to your workflow.

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No-code and low-code automations

Run image edits inside tools like Make and Zapier. Connect to your workflows without writing code.

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Desktop and CLI tools

Process images in batches with desktop tools or command-line runs. Built for speed and repeatability.

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Plugins and extensions

Use Picsart tools inside the platforms you already work in. Great for fast, everyday creation.

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Background

Background features help you create clean, consistent visuals in minutes. Remove the background, replace it with a solid color or image, or generate a new scene with Smart Background. No manual cutouts. No reshoots.

Remove and change background

Remove and change background

Remove backgrounds automatically and keep the details that matter. Then replace the background with a clean color or a new image for consistent, conversion-ready visuals.

 

Availability: Creative APIs for automation, and Editor SDK for embedded editing.

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Quality

Quality features improve resolution and clarity so images look sharp across web, mobile, and print. Use them when source images are small, noisy, or inconsistent.

Upscale and enhance (3 tiers)

Upscale and enhance (3 tiers)

Improve resolution and clarity without manual retouching. Choose the tier that matches your quality needs.

  • Upscale: reliable everyday lift
  • Ultra Upscale: stronger results with added cleanup
  • Ultra Enhance: generative enhancement for smoother, more detailed output

 

Availability: Creative APIs. Upscale can also be used in Editor SDK print workflows (DPI-focused).

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Face enhancement

Face enhancement

Restore portraits and selfies in one step. Fix blur, improve texture, and sharpen facial details while keeping a natural look.

 

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Effects and style

Effects and style features help you create a consistent look across campaigns, catalogs, or UGC. Use them for fast variation, brand alignment, and creative testing.

Effects and filters

Effects and filters

Apply ready-to-use effects for a consistent visual style across large batches of images. Great for brand looks, seasonal refreshes, and fast experimentation.

Availability: Creative APIs.

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AI effects

AI effects

Go beyond classic filters with AI-powered looks and transformations. Useful for one-click creative and rapid variation for ads.

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Adjustments

Adjustments

Make controlled improvements like brightness, contrast, saturation, and more. Ideal for normalize the whole catalog workflows.

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Selective blur

Selective blur

Blur specific regions to protect privacy or guide attention. Great for faces, backgrounds, and sensitive areas.

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Color transfer

Color transfer

Copy the color feel from a reference image to another image. Perfect for brand consistency and matching campaign styles.

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Style transfer

Style transfer

Apply an artistic or branded style in one step. Use it to turn UGC into on-brand creatives and expand your visual range fast.

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Masks

Masks

Target edits precisely by isolating parts of an image. Essential for edit this area only workflows.

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Editing and layout

Editing and layout features help you standardize assets for every channel. Use them to get consistent sizes, framing, and composition when inputs vary.

Core editing

Core editing

Resize, crop, rotate, flip, and more. These are the essentials for marketplaces, listings, ads, and templates.

 

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Smart crop

Smart crop

Automatically crop images around what matters. Great for product tiles, thumbnails, and consistent framing at scale. 

 

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Zoom

Zoom

Create detail zooms from a single source image. Useful for close-ups, inspection views, and dynamic product pages.

 

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Blend

Blend

Combine images with blending modes for overlays, textures, and automated compositions. Great for mockups and template-based output.

 

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Patterns and conversion

Patterns and conversion features help you create repeatable design elements and transform file formats for production. Use them for templates, packaging, brand systems, and print-ready assets.

Pattern generator

Pattern generator

Generate repeatable patterns from an input image. Great for backgrounds, packaging, and template-driven design.

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Image vectorizer

Image vectorizer

Turn raster images into editable SVG vectors. Ideal for logos, icons, and print assets that must scale cleanly.

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Mockups and protection

Mockups and protection features help you preview products realistically and safeguard assets in production. Use them for personalization, previews, and branded distribution.

Surfacemap

Surfacemap

Place designs onto surfaces with a realistic printed look. Useful for previews, merch mockups, and personalization.

 

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Add watermark

Add watermark

Protect previews and brand assets with control over position, size, opacity, and rotation.

 

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Image understanding

Image understanding features turn visuals into structured signals. Use them for search, metadata, moderation routing, accessibility, and automation decisions.

Image tagging

Image tagging

Generate tags from an image for better search, organization, and content workflows.

 

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Describe image

Describe image

Create text descriptions for images (image-to-text). Useful for accessibility, catalog enrichment, and search relevance.

 

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Image segmentation

Image segmentation

Segment objects and regions for more precise edits and automation. Helpful when you need select the right part before applying a change.

 

Availability: Creative APIs.

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Generative AI for images

Generative AI features help you create new visuals, not just edit existing ones. Use them to produce fresh creative faster, expand concepts, and iterate on variations.
Generate and edit images with GenAI

Generate and edit images with GenAI

Generate images from prompts and modify images with GenAI workflows (like adding, removing, or changing parts of a scene). For flexible model choice and faster experimentation, use AI Hub.


Availability: Creative APIs and selected GenAI flows in the Editor SDK (see SDK docs).

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Enterprise

If you need a controlled rollout, strong governance, and support for production scale, use Picsart Enterprise solutions.

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Use docs, SDKs, and quickstarts to integrate GenAI features into your product with fewer moving parts.

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FAQs

What are Picsart Image Features?

Picsart Image Features are the core capabilities for editing, enhancing, and generating images with AI. They include background removal, upscaling, effects, smart edits, mockups, and more.

Do I need to be a developer to use these features?

No. You can use Image Features through no-code and low-code automations, desktop tools, and plugins. Developers can integrate via APIs or embed the Editor SDK.

What is the difference between the Creative APIs and the Editor SDK?

Use Creative APIs for automation and backend workflows (pipelines, bulk edits, programmatic processing).
Use the Editor SDK when you want an editing UI inside your product so users can edit images directly.

What is the difference between Change Background and Smart Background?

Change Background replaces the background with a color or image you provide.
Smart Background generates a new scene from a text prompt so you can create fast variations.

What is the difference between Upscale, Ultra Upscale, and Ultra Enhance?

They are three quality tiers for improving resolution and clarity.

  • Upscale for everyday improvement
  • Ultra Upscale for stronger cleanup
  • Ultra Enhance for generative enhancement and smoother detail

Can I improve portraits and faces specifically?

Yes. Face enhancement is designed to restore portrait detail and improve facial clarity while keeping a natural look.

Can I apply filters, effects, and brand styling?

Yes. Use effects, AI effects, style transfer, color transfer, and adjustments to create a consistent look across campaigns and catalogs.

Can I blur parts of an image for privacy?

Yes. Selective blur lets you blur specific areas to protect privacy or draw attention to key subjects.

Can I generate new images with Generative AI?

Yes. You can generate images from prompts and edit images with GenAI workflows. For model flexibility, explore AI Hub.

Can I do core edits like crop, resize, rotate, and smart crop?

Yes. Core edits help you standardize assets. Smart crop helps keep the most important content in frame automatically.

Can I convert images to SVG or prep assets for print?

Yes. Image vectorizer converts raster images into SVG for clean scaling. This is useful for logos, icons, and print workflows.

Do you support bulk processing?

Yes. Bulk processing is supported via APIs and workflow automation options. For high volume and custom requirements, Enterprise is available.

How do pricing and usage work?

Plans vary by usage and feature needs. See current options here: pricing

What if I need security reviews, SLAs, or a custom solution?

Picsart Enterprise supports security requirements, SLAs, tailored integrations, and procurement needs. Learn more here: enterprise 

Where should I start if I want to build?

Start with docs and pick your path: API, SDK, or automation. Docs
If you want no-code options, start here: integrations

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