Magic Layer is the answer to the thing we hear more than almost anything else: "it's almost right." You've got a generated image where the layout works and the concept lands — and the headline's wrong, or the logo's too small, or there's a stray element in the corner.
Until now your only move was to regenerate and hope, and a regeneration gives you a different image, not a fixed one. Magic Layer stops that. It opens an image up into the pieces it's made of — headline, product, logo, background — and lets you change one of them without touching the rest.
How to open it
Open any generated image to its detail view and click Magic Layer in the tool rail. You'll see an orange sweep across the canvas and Disassembling layers… in the right-hand panel while it works — it's quick, a second or two.
When it's done the editable pieces are live: click one and a toolbar appears above it.
The first time you open an image detail you'll get a short popover next to the Magic Layer icon with a looping demo. Worth watching once.
What you can change
Click an element to select it and you get the controls that make sense for it:
Text — rewrite the content (double-click to type straight on the canvas), and change font, size, weight, colour and opacity. The colour picker gives you recommended swatches, your brand palette, and a custom hex box.
Images — flip horizontally or vertically, change opacity, or delete.
Anything — drag to move, and scale or rotate with the handles.
The layer list in the right-hand panel is live, not just a readout. Each layer has an eye toggle to hide and show it, and you can drag layers to reorder them — useful when something is sitting in front of something else. Hiding is the gentler move than deleting: if an element is in the way but you might want it back, hide it and bring it back whenever you like.
The font dropdown lists your uploaded brand fonts so this is also the fastest way to get your real typeface onto an image that came out with the wrong one.
It's worth knowing that your brand itself only assigns two fonts, one for Headline and one for Body; here you're setting the font on a single element, so you can reach for any face in your library. (See Custom Fonts for uploading them — they go into the brand's Brand fonts section.)
You've got Undo and Redo in the right-hand panel, Ctrl/Cmd+Z on the keyboard, and Reset to original if you'd rather throw the lot away and start again.
Where we'd point you first
Don't think of Magic Layer as a design tool — think of it as a rescue tool. The highest-value thing you can do with it is go back through the generations you'd already written off. Most people have a pile of near-misses they abandoned because one element was wrong. That pile is now half an hour of fixing rather than a fresh round of generating, and it costs you a great deal less.
The second-highest is copy. Changing a headline used to mean a regeneration and a new layout you then had to re-approve from scratch. Now you can run three headline variants off one image that already works — same layout, same product shot, three angles.
What v1 is good at, and where it struggles
Being straight with you: this is v1, and it shines brightest on images with one clear subject and not much overlap — posters, product shots, social images, simple banners with text on them. Busy, layered, crowded compositions come apart less cleanly.
A few specifics worth knowing before they surprise you:
It treats layout copy as editable text — headlines, subheads, that sort of thing. Text that's part of an image — words on your packaging, a logo, a shop sign, print on clothing — isn't pulled out as text, and that's deliberate.
Fonts in the original are matched to the closest available font, not identified exactly. If it looks slightly off, set it yourself from the font dropdown.
When you move or remove an element, the background behind it gets patched in. On flat and gradient backgrounds that's invisible; on light textures it's close; on genuinely complex backgrounds expect it to be imperfect.
The background itself isn't editable right now.
Saving your work
Magic Layer never overwrites your original. When you're happy, click Save as new and the edited version is saved as a new image alongside it.
Your Magic Layer edits are treated as the current state of that image, so the other tools work on top of them. That means if you've got unsaved changes and you go to generate, resize or close, you'll get a prompt asking whether to save them first — say yes unless you genuinely want them gone.
A note on credits
Opening Magic Layer on an image runs a scan, and that uses credits. Hover the icon before you click and you'll see the cost, so there's never a surprise.
Coming back to the same image later doesn't charge you for the scan again. There's more in Understand & manage AI credits.
And if you've got a batch of near-miss generations you want a hand triaging, send them over — we'll happily go through which ones Magic Layer will rescue and which are better off regenerated.