4 Canvas Tools

Once a design has direction and you need to adjust one specific property, use the canvas tools. This is where you work on images, vectors, text, layers, and production details.

4.1 When to use canvas tools

The division of labor is simple: the Agent understands what you want; canvas tools change one property precisely. Removing a background, adding a cut line, changing a color, cropping to a heart, aligning three objects — anything with explicit parameters that you tune while watching the result is faster on the canvas.

Most AI image tools keep the original and generate the new result next to it, so you can compare before continuing.

4.2 Adding content to the canvas

AI Chat

Open the AI Agent to generate or revise designs through conversation. Good for:

• Generating an image from scratch
• Continuing from an uploaded reference image
• Revising the current design
• Complex, multi-step creative tasks

Template: start from a ready-made design

No need to build from a blank canvas. Ideal when you already know the type of piece and just want to swap the text and artwork quickly.

1. Click Template in the left toolbar
2. Choose Laser or Print, then search or browse by category
3. Click a template to add it to the canvas, then edit text, elements, and styles as needed

Great for door signs, posters, holiday decor, business signage, and personalized gifts.

Text: add text

Add plain text to the canvas, or use preset text layouts to quickly make titles, decorative lettering, and text compositions.

1. Click Text in the left toolbar
2. Click Add Text for plain text, or pick a text template by category
3. After adding, edit the content and adjust font, style, alignment, fill, stroke, shadow, and text warp

For more text settings see 4.5 Vector & Text Editing.

Elements: add ready-made assets

Add ready-made graphics and design assets to enrich the artwork or help with layout.

1. Click Elements in the left toolbar
2. Choose Laser or Print, then search or browse by category
3. Click an asset to add it to the canvas, then adjust size, position, color, and other properties

Includes illustrations, icons, ornaments, patterns, borders, basic shapes, and other visual elements.

AI Font: generate your own typeface

Generate a more designed font pack with AI and use it to edit text freely. Supports vector fonts and color fonts.

1. Click AI Font in the left toolbar
2. Choose Vector or Color
3. Upload a reference image with a clear font style, or describe the font style you want
4. Click Generate. The result is saved in My Font and can be applied to text on the canvas

Great for logos, titles, door signs, brand lettering, and decorative type.

Mockup: preview in a real scene

Preview the design on a real product or in a real setting so you can judge, before fabricating:

• Whether the design suits the actual product
• Whether the size and proportions work
• Whether the colors look natural
• Roughly how the finished piece will look

4.3 AI image tools

Select an image on the canvas and these tools appear in the toolbar above it or in the right-hand panel.

Precise Edit

The image is mostly right, but one spot is off — the ear is too small, a button is the wrong color, there's a stray line. Regenerating the whole image would change the parts you like. Precise Edit lets you point at that one spot and say what to change.

1. Select the image and click Precise Edit
2. Choose a marking mode: Mark clicks one specific spot; Brush paints an area
3. Mark the places to change, up to 5. Each gets a label you can rename, e.g. Right ear
4. In the input box, write the instruction after the matching label
5. Click Confirm

BG Remove

Removes the background in one click, keeps the main content, and outputs a transparent-background image. Good for product shots, portraits, logos — anything you'll lay out further.

Select the image, click BG Remove, then Confirm. The result appears next to the original.

When to use precise mode: if the image has fur, cut-out areas, fine edges, or several overlapping objects, tick Precise background removal. The cut-out is finer but takes longer, about 30 seconds.

Vectorize

Vectors scale infinitely without blurring and are the format laser cutting and multi-color fabrication need. Two conversion modes:

Monochrome vectorization: select the image → Vectorize → Monochrome → Confirm. The result appears next to the original as a new vector object.

If the source is a photo, has heavy shadows or low contrast, or the result comes out mushy, turn on Advanced and try again. AImake first uses AI to prepare the image for vectorization, then converts it.

Color vectorization: select the image → Vectorize → switch to Full Color → set how many colors to keep in Retain colors → Generate. Every color in the result is a separate vector shape you can select, move, and recolor on its own.

How many colors to keep: 4, 8, 12, or 16; the default is 8.

• Fewer colors: simpler shapes, more complete blocks, easier to edit afterward
• More colors: closer to the original, richer detail, but more fragmented blocks

Laser Prep

The same photo needs different tonal handling on wood than on glass. Laser Prep re-processes the image's tones and contrast for the material you choose, so the engraved piece comes closer to what you see on screen.

Select the image and click Laser Prep:

1. Choose the material under Material — 12 options, including Wood, Metal, Leather, Glass, Paper, and Stone
2. Choose Light or Dark
3. Adjust Strength, then click Confirm

Photos, portraits, and illustrations with rich tonal range all benefit from this step before engraving.

Parse Image

You have a finished design and want to swap just one element or move one part. Parse Image splits the whole image into separately editable layers, with images and text kept apart.

Select the image and click Parse Image; processing takes about 3 minutes. The result appears next to the original as a group. Click any layer inside the group to move, scale, or delete it on its own while the others stay put.

Offset Outline

Offsets a closed cut line outward from the artwork's contour, so you can cut along it after engraving or printing. Used for stickers, keychains, charms — anything printed and then trimmed.

Select the image → More → Offset Outline → set the distance between the cut line and the artwork with Offset (larger value, wider margin) → Confirm.

Two more switches on the panel:

• Keep inner: also adds cut lines around interior holes; turn it on when the holes should be cut out too
• Add ring: adds a ring-shaped hanging hole at the top, ready for keychains and charms

Text Edit

Recognizes the text in an image and regenerates it with your changes while keeping the original font, color, and position — change SUMMER SALE on a poster to WINTER SALE and nothing else moves.

Select the image → More → Text Edit → wait for recognition; the panel lists each piece of text in the order it appears → edit directly in the boxes (one piece or all of them) → Generate.

Great for producing a series, or for translating the copy on an image into other languages in bulk.

Extraction

Draw a box on the image and pull that part out as a standalone asset.

Select the image → More → Extraction → drag a box → Generate. Images with a clear subject that stands out from the background extract best.

After boxing the area, the Engraving mode switch decides what you get:

• On: a line-only vector graphic with the photo texture removed, ready to engrave
• Off: a regular image that keeps the original colors and texture

Upscaler

Doubles the image resolution for a sharper picture. Use it when an image will be enlarged, before printing or engraving to boost precision, or when an earlier generation isn't sharp enough.

Select the image and click More → Upscaler. No settings — processing starts immediately and the result appears next to the original.

Crop

Trim away parts you don't need. Select the image → More → Crop → drag the crop box to set what to keep → Confirm.

Besides Free cropping you can pick a fixed ratio: 1:1, 2:3, 3:2, 3:4, 4:3, 16:9, 9:16.

Variations

When you want to see several versions of one idea, Variations generates a batch at once. The key is choosing the right lock — it decides what stays the same:

• Subject locked: keep the subject, change the style. The same raccoon in watercolor, pixel art, line art, and more
• Style locked: keep the style, change the subject. The same look applied to different content — ideal for a matching series

Select the image → More → Variations → choose the lock → set how many to generate with Count (up to 8) → Generate.

To steer the variations, add a line in Describe variations, e.g. "hand-drawn watercolor style"; it also works without one.

AI Reframe

When the composition is too tight, the subject is too close to the edge, or you need to deliver in a different ratio, AI Reframe extends the picture outward and fills the new area with AI.

Select the image → More → AI Reframe → choose a target ratio (1:1, 1:2, 2:1, 16:9, 9:16) or drag the handles around the image to set it freely. The blue area outside the image is what will be generated; confirm the range and click Generate.

Mask

Crop an image into a shape — for die-cut stickers, tags, and charms.

Select the image → More → Mask → pick a shape from the list (circle, heart, star, shield, tag, flag, frame, and more; the list scrolls). The canvas previews the result instantly; try another if you don't like it, then click Confirm.

4.4 Color & Image Adjustment

Remove

Removes a chosen color from the whole image. Good for deleting a solid background, dropping unwanted color blocks, or keeping only the lines and subject.

1. Select the image and switch to Remove under Color Adjustment
2. Click Pick Color, then click the colors to remove on the image — up to 5
3. Drag Tolerance to set how close a color must be to be removed as well; the higher the value, the more similar colors go too

Recolor

Replaces a chosen color with another. Good for changing a background color, adjusting a pattern's palette, or producing several color versions of one image.

1. Select the image and switch to Recolor under Color Adjustment
2. Click Pick Color, then click the colors to replace on the image — up to 5
3. Choose the new color under Replace With

⚠️ All selected colors are replaced with the same new color. To map different colors to different targets, do one at a time over several rounds.

Image Adjustment

Expand Image Adjustment in the right-hand Settings panel to adjust the image's own tones and colors. Every change previews live on the canvas.

Use it to brighten a dark or dull image, boost contrast before engraving, or fade an image for use as a background.

If you've gone too far, click Reset at the bottom of the panel to return everything to the starting point.

4.5 Vector & Text Editing

Fill, Stroke, Shadow

These three appearance settings are shared by all vector objects. The + to the right of each heading adds it; − removes it.

Fill — the color inside the shape. Click the swatch to choose Solid or Gradient; gradients can be Linear or Radial, and you drag the stops on the gradient bar to set colors and positions. Remove the fill and only the outline remains.

Applying Fill to a color vector floods every color with one solid color. To change only some of the colors, use the per-color editing below.

Stroke — the shape's outline; adjust width and color. Use it to emphasize outlines, make outlined lettering, or add a white border to stickers. In Stroke Settings you can also set where the line sits relative to the path (Inside, Center, Outside) and the corner shape (miter, round, bevel).

Shadow — lifts the shape off the background. In Shadow Settings choose between Normal, a soft drop shadow with adjustable offset, angle, and blur, and 3D, a solid hard-edged extrusion with adjustable offset and angle.

💡 The three stack. Set text to a white Fill, add a thick dark Stroke, then switch Shadow to 3D — and you have extruded outlined lettering.

Color vectors

When a color vector is selected, the right-hand panel adds Illustration Colors: the illustration is broken into a swatch card with one row per color.

Per-color editing — click a row's swatch and pick a new color, and every part of the artwork using that color changes together. Use it to apply brand colors, or to lighten or make one color transparent.

Color Palettes — out of ideas? Click Browse Color Palettes to open the palette page and pick from a set of named presets with color-strip previews; the whole illustration's colors are replaced at once.

Turn on Auto Adjust Brightness and the tonal relationships are adjusted automatically when a palette is applied, keeping the layering clear. Apply a few palettes to the same illustration and you have seasonal or stylistic variants.

Typography and Text warp

When text is selected, the right-hand panel shows two text-specific settings.

Typography — choose a font from the dropdown; each font name is shown in its own typeface so you can see it at a glance. Fonts come in three groups: MY FONT (fonts you uploaded), LOCAL (already on your computer), and CLOUD (the cloud library — click to download and use). With many fonts you can search directly. Below, choose Regular, Bold, Bold Italic, or Italic; the three buttons on the right set alignment.

Text warp — bends text into arcs, flags, waves, and other shapes. Circular text on badges, retro signage, and sticker slogans all rely on it.

Turn it on to open the settings panel, pick one of 15 warp presets — Arc, Arch, Wave, Flag, Twist, and more — then fine-tune with the Strength, Horizontal, and Vertical sliders. All three accept negative values to warp in the opposite direction.

4.6 Multiple Objects & Layout

Drag a box on an empty part of the canvas to select several objects at once.

Align

With several objects selected, Align appears in the right-hand Settings panel with six options: center horizontally, center vertically, top, bottom, left, right. Click one and the selection snaps into line.

Group / Merge Layers

With several objects selected, Group appears above them; click it to group them so they move and scale together. Select a group and the button becomes Ungroup and Merge Layers — and the difference matters:

• Grouping only bundles the objects; each stays independent and you can Ungroup at any time
• Merging truly turns them into a single image; they are no longer separate objects

After merging, it's an ordinary image and every image tool in this section applies to it.

💡 Rule of thumb: group while laying out; merge only when you're done adjusting parts separately and want to treat the result as one image.