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Image Creator — Edit & Inpaint

Inpaint is the one that really edits your image. Read this before using Edit with Prompt.

Inpaint edits your image — "Edit with Prompt" does not

The edit window has three tabs and they behave very differently:

• Inpaint is the precise one: your picture goes to the model along with the mask you painted, and only the masked area is redrawn. Everything outside the mask is left exactly as it was.
• Edit with Prompt does now send your picture — since 5 September 2026 it goes along as a reference, so the result keeps the face or the object. But there is no mask, so the model is free to redraw the whole picture around it. Expect a new picture that resembles yours, not your picture with one thing changed.
• Layers splits the picture into its parts instead of painting over it, which is the one to reach for when you want something removed — see Splitting an Image into Layers.

So if you want one part of your image changed and the rest untouched, use Inpaint.

Inpainting

Use the Inpaint tab to paint a mask over the area you want changed — only that area is regenerated. This is ideal for fixing details, swapping a background or editing one element without redoing the whole image.

The mask works on a GPT Image model and on Nano Banana (Gemini), which gets it as a second picture with the instruction to change only the painted area. DALL-E cannot take your picture at all: it stops with "This model cannot use a reference picture or a saved character. Pick a GPT Image model or Nano Banana (Gemini) to keep the face." and "Nothing was charged." There is no model picker anywhere in the edit flow: the server chooses the model, so if the result came back completely different there is no setting on your side to change. Re-run the edit rather than hunting for one, and if it keeps happening, tell support.

For best inpainting results, paint a generous mask around the area you want to change. Too tight a mask can produce artifacts at the edges.

Also in Image Creator

• Next in Image Creator: Splitting an Image into Layers
• Start here: Overview — Generate AI images from text prompts — what they cost, and what the download looks like.
• Making the picture: Styles — Every Image Creator style and when to use it, from Realistic to the Minecraft styles that lock to game-ready pixel sizes, with a 3D preview for skins.
• Making the picture: Formats & Enhancement — Square, landscape, portrait or a social-media preset: how to pick an image format, make it your default, choose SD or HD, and what each try costs.
• Keeping your work: Kit — One screen for the people, the logo, the look and the real places of your business, saved once and used in every picture, clip and website.

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