To generate an AI image from another image, upload the original, describe what should change, decide how far the result can move from the source, and export it.
Any AI image generator from image works this way, and in Recraft Studio it takes four steps on the free plan.
The source image carries the composition, the colors, and the subject. Your prompt carries the change. Most image-to-image jobs fall into one of three kinds: an edit that changes one element, a restyle that keeps the scene and swaps the medium, and a variation that keeps the idea and changes the details.
Open a project and drag the image from your computer onto the canvas, or click Upload image in the toolbar. An image you made earlier in Recraft Studio works too: open History and click it to place it on the canvas.
Select the image and choose Edit image under Modify in the right panel. The prompt field sits next to the image. Write the change as an instruction, and name what must stay: "make the jacket red, keep the pose and the background" gives the model both halves of the job.
You can also start from the Create tab on the left. Attach the image as a reference with the paper clip icon, then describe the result. Use this route when you combine several references, such as a product photo and a style reference.
Leave the model on Auto mode, or pick one yourself. Recraft Studio includes editing models from Google (Nano Banana), OpenAI (GPT Image), ByteDance (Seedream), Black Forest Labs (Flux), and others, and many of them accept up to 10 reference images.
How far the new image drifts from the source depends on two things: how you word the prompt and which tool you use.
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strength value from 0 to 1. A value near 0 returns an almost identical image, and 1 moves the furthest from it. These ranges are starting points, not rules. Run the same prompt at two values and compare before you commit.
Select the result and choose Export under Finalise, then pick PNG or JPG. A vector result exports as SVG. If the detail looks soft, run Refine details first: it regenerates the image with Recraft V4.1 Pro at 2048×2048 and keeps the composition. If you only need a bigger file, use the image upscaler instead.
The source is a phone photo of a ceramic coffee mug on a wooden desk, lit from a window on the left. Nothing about it is special, which is the point. It shows what each kind of job keeps and what it gives up.
The edit. Prompt: "Make the mug matte black. Keep the desk, the window light, and the camera angle exactly the same." The mug should change color while the grain of the desk and the shadow stay where they were. Check the handle first. Small curved shapes are where an edit most often changes more than you asked for.
The restyle. Prompt: "Turn this photo into a flat vector illustration in cream, terracotta, and olive. Keep the mug, the window, and the composition." The layout holds, and the photo becomes shapes. For a file you can scale and recolor, select the result and choose Turn into vector under Reuse, or send it through the image vectorizer.
The variations. Select the original photo and choose Remix image with the similarity slider set high. Each version keeps the mug on the desk and moves the details: the angle of the handle, the light, the objects around it. Use this when you like the idea of an image but not its exact frame.
The same three moves work on a product shot, a sketch, a portrait, or a screenshot of a layout. For more targeted changes on a single image, the AI image editor with prompt covers the edit side in more depth.
strength through the API. "Turn into" moves further than "adjust."For a batch of product shots or a pipeline, the Recraft API runs the same job without the canvas. Send the source image, a prompt, and a strength value between 0 and 1 to the image-to-image endpoint. It works with Recraft V3, V4, and V4.1 models, raster or vector, and returns up to six images per request. The image-to-image API reference has working examples in cURL, Python, and JavaScript.
The fastest way to learn the controls is to run one photo through all three jobs. Open the AI image generator, upload an image, and compare an edit, a restyle, and a remix side by side.
If you want the prompt behind an image rather than a new image, extract the prompt instead and generate from that.
Upload the image to an AI image generator from image, describe what should change and what should stay, then export the result. In Recraft Studio, select the image on the canvas, choose Edit image, and write the change as an instruction.
For variations without a prompt, use Remix image and set how similar each version stays to the original.
Yes. Recraft Studio's free plan includes image editing and up to 30 free generations a day. Free images are public in the community gallery and owned by Recraft, so use a paid plan if you need ownership and commercial rights.
Costs vary by editing model, so a high-end model uses more of the daily allowance than a fast one.
Yes. Upload the photo, choose Edit image, and describe the new medium while naming what stays, for example "a flat vector illustration in three colors, keep the composition."
For an editable SVG, select the result and choose Turn into vector. The vector keeps its edges sharp at any size.
