Extend any image beyond its borders
Outpainting generates what would have been outside the frame if the shot had been wider. Use it to fix a crop that's too tight, or to reshape an image for a placement it was never sized for.
20 free credits at signup — enough for 5 runs of this tool. No card required.
- Cost
- 4 credits
- Input
- 1 upload
- Output
- Image (PNG / JPG)
How Outpaint / Expand works
The everyday use is aspect ratio. A square social image needs to become a wide banner; a portrait shot needs to fill a landscape hero slot. Cropping loses the subject, stretching looks wrong — outpainting adds new, matching image instead. Extend in modest steps and run it twice rather than asking for an enormous expansion in one pass; the model has more context to work from that way.
Upload the image
Whatever you need to make bigger than its frame.
Set the expansion
Choose which edges grow, and by how much.
Generate
New image is created outward, matched to the existing content.
What people use it for
- Reformat one hero image for banner, square, and story placements
- Rescue a photo cropped too tightly at the top or sides
- Open up a composition to leave room for headline text
- Extend AI generations that landed at the wrong aspect ratio
Outpaint / Expand questions
How far can I extend in one go?
Technically a long way, but quality falls off as the model gets further from real pixels. Two moderate passes beat one extreme one.
Will the extension match the original exactly?
Lighting, palette, and texture match closely. Specific structures — a continuing building line, a horizon feature — are invented and may need a second run to land well.
How is this different from upscaling?
Photo Enhancer makes the same picture bigger in pixels. Outpaint makes the picture show more scene. Different jobs entirely.
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