Node reference
Image tools
Nine nodes that work on a picture you already have: make it bigger, cut it out, reshape it, describe it, mark it up, or turn it into a layout.
Last reviewed October 25, 2026
Tools work on what exists
A generator is told what to make. A tool is handed a picture and asked to do one thing to it. The image tools sit in the Tools group of the palette, take one image on their input, and give one result on their output. Most have no prompt, because the picture is the instruction.
They come in two kinds. Five are free and run on your device, with no Run button at all. Four spend credits, either because a model does the work or because an AI writes the words.
| Tool | Takes | Gives | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upscale | Image | Output Image | Credits, by model |
| Remove Background | Image | Output Image | Credits, by model |
| Image Describer | Image | Prompt | Credits, per description |
| Prompt Enhance | Draft | Prompt | Credits, per pass |
| Crop & Resize | Image | Output Image | Free |
| Painter | Image | Output Image | Free |
| Color | Nothing | Text, Swatch | Free |
| Color Palette | Extract from | Text, Swatch | Free |
| Design Studio | Background | Design | Free |
The free tools have no Run button
Crop & Resize, Painter, Color, Color Palette and Design Studio are lenses. What you set on the node is a recipe, and the output wire means the picture with that recipe applied. You never press Run on them. When a node downstream runs, the editor bakes the processed picture first, at full resolution, and hands it on. You can also download the baked result from the node.
Edit without paying twice
Upscale and Remove Background
- Upscale
- One picture in, a bigger one out. Pick the model and the target size it offers; a model with a fixed output shows the size control greyed with the reason. Use it to prepare a result for print or a large format.
- Remove Background
- Cuts the subject out and returns it on transparency, ready to composite. Eight models sit behind it and they differ a lot: some take a checkpoint, an inference size and an edge pass, others take nothing but the picture. The node shows only the controls the selected model has.
Both run like generators: a Run button with the credit estimate, a trigger in and out, and the result lands in an Image Preview. Wire them after a generation, or feed an uploaded Image Input.
Image Describer and Prompt Enhance
- Image Describer
- Looks at a picture and writes one generation-ready prompt that would recreate it. The text stays editable on the node, and the Prompt output carries your edited version, not the model's raw words. If the picture comes through a free tool, the baked version is what gets described.
- Prompt Enhance
- Turns a rough draft into a detailed prompt in one pass. Both boxes stay visible: your draft on top, the enhanced text below, editable. With the target on Auto, the node reads the wire going out and tunes the prompt for the model at the other end.
Both write on the text lane rather than the run lane: an action button on the node starts the work, the words stream in, and the Prompt output feeds any node with a text port.
Crop & Resize and Painter
- Crop & Resize
- The crop box picks what is kept; the width and height fields pick the size it leaves at. Ratio presets sit in a dropdown, quarter turns and flips are exact, and stretching is only possible when the size fields are unlinked.
- Painter
- Draws circles, arrows, scribbles and short labels on the picture, inside the preview. Feed the marked-up result to an edit-capable model to say which part you mean and what should happen to it. Strokes are stored as vectors and baked at full size.
Color and Color Palette
- Color
- One exact color from a full picker, with two outputs: Text carries it as a line of prompt text, Swatch carries it as a 600 by 600 image. Saved colors are shared by every Color node in your account.
- Color Palette
- Up to ten colors, chosen by hand or extracted from an uploaded or wired picture. Extraction runs on your device and the picture never leaves it. The same two outputs as Color, with every chip in the palette.
Two outputs, two uses
Design Studio
Design Studio is a layered design canvas inside the node: text, shapes and images composed into a finished layout. Quick edits happen on the node itself; the full-screen studio opens for real work. A wired picture becomes the background, and without one the canvas starts from a preset. Every gesture is one undo step on the graph, and the composite is baked before any downstream run reads it.
Common connections
Image Preview → Upscale → Image Preview
Finish a chosen result at print size.
Image Input → Remove Background → Image Generate
Cut a product out, then place it in a generated scene as a reference.
Image Preview → Image Describer → Image Generate prompt
Recreate the look of a result with a different product.
Text Input → Prompt Enhance → Video Generate prompt
Write a rough idea and let the enhancer tune it for the video model.
Image Input → Crop & Resize → Image Generate
Reframe a reference to the ratio the generation needs.
Painter → an edit model
Circle the detail to change and label what it should become.
Color Palette Text → prompt variable
Keep a brand palette in the prompt of every generation.