DesignBat

Photo editor

Professional photo editing, right in the browser

Double click any photo in a design or start a photo project. Work with layers, masks and selections, retouch with healing and clone tools, and keep every adjustment editable.

The DesignBat photo editor with layers and the AI designer panel

Layers and masks

Raster, text, shape and adjustment layers, plus groups. Set opacity, fill and blend mode, add layer masks and clipping masks, and style layers with shadow, stroke, glow and bevel.

  • Lock, hide, merge and flatten
  • Placed images stay non destructive
  • Layer styles you can change later

Selections that do the hard part

Rectangle, ellipse, lasso, polygonal and magnetic lasso, magic wand with tolerance, colour range and quick selection with a brush. Add, subtract and intersect, feather, expand, contract and invert.

  • Select subject with a model that runs in your browser
  • Turn any selection into a mask
  • Refine the edge of hair and soft objects

Retouch, adjust and transform

Brush, pencil, eraser, bucket and gradient tools with pressure on supported devices. Healing, spot healing, clone stamp, dodge, burn, sponge, blur, sharpen, smudge and red eye. Content aware fill removes what you do not want.

  • Curves, levels, hue and saturation, colour balance and more as adjustment layers
  • Blur, sharpen, noise, liquify, warp and perspective
  • Crop with ratios and straighten, canvas and image size

AI editing, as new layers

Describe a change and get it as a new layer you can mask or hide: warmer light, an object added to a selection, more of the scene around the edges or a new background. The AI designer can also work through your layers step by step.

  • Edit with words, fill, remove, replace and expand
  • Background replace, upscale, restore, colourise and relight
  • Every AI step can be undone

Real results

Edit photos with words.

One photo, four AI tools. Drag to compare the original with each result.

The original photo: a cup of coffee on a wooden cafe table
The same photo after the AI edit
BeforeAfter

Prompt: make it golden hour with warm low sunlight

How it works.

  1. 1

    Open a photo

    Upload PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF, TIFF or a PSD, or double click a photo in a design.

  2. 2

    Edit in layers

    Select, mask, adjust and retouch. The history panel keeps your steps and snapshots.

  3. 3

    Save it back

    Export the image or a layered PSD, or send it back into your design.

Questions.

Can I open PSD files?

Yes. Layers are imported as images you can move, mask and adjust. Exporting a layered PSD is supported too.

Does the subject selection upload my photo?

No. Select subject and background removal run on your device with a model your browser downloads once.

Is there a size limit?

Photo projects are limited to 8,000 pixels on the longest side in this version, which covers prints and camera photos.

Can I use it on a tablet?

Yes. Tablets and phones get the full tool set with a tool drawer, bottom sheets, two finger pan and zoom and pen pressure where the device supports it.

Your next design
starts here.

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