Photo Editor

The Photo Editor is Brandmachine's in-browser tool for fine-tuning generated images. It opens from any image card's "..." (More actions) menu. Three modes cover most retouching needs: color correction, spot correction, and lasso-driven generative edits.

Note: "Edit with AI" is a gated feature and may not be available in every workspace yet. If you don't see it in the "..." menu, contact support@brandmachine.shop to ask about access.

Opening the Editor

From any image's card in All Images, Favorites, or Rejected, click the "..." (More actions) icon in the corner of the card, then choose Edit with AI. The editor opens in a full-screen modal titled "AI Image Editor".

The three modes are selectable as toggle buttons at the top of the sidebar:

  1. Color Correction
  2. Spot Correction
  3. Image Edit

Color Correction

Useful for region-specific color and exposure tweaks.

  1. Type what you want to segment (e.g. "background", "jacket", "skin").
  2. Click Segment. Brandmachine generates a mask for that region.
  3. Adjust:
    • Exposure. ±2.0 EV
    • Hue Shift. ±180°
    • Saturation. 0 to 2.0x
  4. Fine-tune the mask:
    • Grow / Shrink. ±20 px to expand or contract the selection
    • Blur. 0 to 25 px to feather the edge
  5. Click Save & Start New Adjustment to lock in this layer and start another region. Layers are stackable, each toggleable on/off, each deletable.

Spot Correction

For fixing blemishes, damage, or inconsistencies using a clean reference crop.

  1. Upload a reference image: a clean crop showing what the area should look like. You'll need to crop this yourself before uploading.
  2. Use the brush tool to paint over the area you want to fix.
  3. Click Apply Fix. Brandmachine returns one or more variants.
  4. The editor enters blend refinement (see below).
  5. Browse variants with arrow controls and Apply the one you want, or Discard to start over.

Image Edit (Lasso)

For generative edits: replace, modify, or augment regions using a prompt.

  1. Use the lasso tool to outline the area to change (freehand outline, not a brush).
  2. Write a prompt describing the edit, e.g. "Replace jacket with leather, keep pose and lighting".
  3. (Optional) Click the + icon to attach reference images that guide the AI.
  4. Click Generate. Brandmachine returns one or more variants at the image's native resolution.
  5. The editor enters blend refinement.
  6. Browse variants and Apply, or Discard.

Blend Refinement

After Spot Correction or Image Edit returns variants, the editor opens the blend controls so you can seat the AI patch cleanly into the original image:

  • Grow / Shrink. ±20 px. Spreads or contracts the patch into the surrounding image.
  • Feather. 10 to 150 px. Softens the transition edge.
  • Edge Sharpness. 1 to 20. How abruptly the falloff happens.
  • Rotation. ±200°. Rotate the patch if the content sits at an angle.
  • Offset X / Y. ±256 px. Nudge the patch position.
  • Hue. ±180°. Color-correct just the patch.
  • Brightness. ±2.0 EV. Match exposure to the surrounding image.

Internally, the editor erodes and feathers the boundary inward before compositing, which prevents the dark halos you'd otherwise see where an AI patch meets original pixels.

Viewing and Comparing

Outside the editor, the card-level controls give you a viewer and, where applicable, a comparison view:

  • Viewer. Click a card's thumbnail to open it in a full-screen viewer. There's no dedicated zoom control, just a toggle between full-width (scrollable) and fit-to-viewport display. (Pinch-to-zoom works on the canvas inside the AI Image Editor itself, but the card-level viewer doesn't have a separate zoom icon.)
  • Compare modal. Columns icon, only shown when the image has input images attached (for example product references). Split-screen view: inputs on the left, generated image on the right. Useful for color or pose checks. If an image has no inputs, this option isn't available.

FAQs

Will edits cost credits? Yes. See Billing & Credits for the price list. Color correction layers are cheaper than generative edits.

Can I edit a Group Shot or Product Studio output? Yes. The Photo Editor works on any generated image's card.

Where do edits get saved? Applied edits replace the active image. The original is kept under the hood; if you want it back, contact support.

For further help, contact support@brandmachine.shop.