How to Use AI Replace in MyEdit

MyEdit's AI Replace swaps one thing in a photo for something else and leaves the rest of the picture alone. You paint over whatever is bothering you, tell MyEdit what belongs there instead, and it draws the new object into the gap so it looks like it was there when you shot it. It runs in a browser tab, on a laptop or phone, with nothing to install.

AI Replace sits under Image Tools in MyEdit, in the Enhance group, and there is no setup between you and it: load a photo and the editor opens with the picture on the right and the tools down the left. Any everyday snapshot is fair game, which is the nice part of doing this in a browser rather than an installed editor. You can pull something off your phone and start on the spot. Ours is a corner of a room: white brick, a green side table, and a small quote frame sitting next to a vase of dried grass. Grabbed the wrong shot? Replace Image at the top left swaps it out without making you leave the tool.

AI Replace only touches what you paint, so this is the step that decides how convincing the swap looks. Brush is already picked for you. Drag Size until the brush is a little narrower than the thing you are covering, then paint across the whole object, edges included. A red overlay shows exactly what is marked, and leaving a sliver of the original uncovered is what produces those half-erased leftovers nobody wants. Painted outside the lines? Eraser takes the marking back off a bit at a time, and Clear Brush wipes the mask so you can mark it again from scratch.

Now the fun half. Under the heading Replace the marked object or area there are two genuinely different ways to say what should appear in that red patch, and they are not just two flavours of the same thing: one takes words, the other takes a picture. You can only run one at a time, and choosing one grays the other out, so it is worth knowing which you want before you click. The number printed on the Generate button is not the same for both, either.

Typing is the quicker route and the one to try first. Click into the box under Describe it with text and write the replacement the way you would describe it to someone who cannot see the photo. We asked for a small standing photo frame holding a child's crayon drawing of a house and a sun, in a wooden frame, in soft natural light. Naming the material and the light is the part people skip, and it is the part that keeps the new object from looking stuck on top of the picture. The counter under the box runs to 800 characters, so there is far more room than a sentence like that needs.

When only one particular object will do, skip the words and give MyEdit the picture. Click Upload a reference image, which grays out the text box, then click Import a photo and pick your file. We used a photo of a small white pot with a flowering plant in it. The photo lands in the panel as a thumbnail and Generate lights up, and this is the route to use when the thing you want back in the frame is something you own rather than something that merely looks like it.

The first time through, MyEdit puts a Notice on screen about what makes a usable reference. Tick Don't show again if you would rather not see it every time, then click Got it.

Whichever route you took, Generate at the bottom of the panel is the last thing to press. A counter runs across the canvas while MyEdit works, and the finished picture takes the place of the old one on screen.

Happy with what came back? Download at the top right saves the picture at full size with no watermark on it. Not happy? Nothing is locked in. Brush the area again, reword the description, or drop in a different reference photo and run it once more.

And that is one side table redecorated without touching anything else in the photo. Replace Something Else →