How to Use AI Replace in PhotoDirector

PhotoDirector's AI Replace is for the shot that is almost right. Everything in the frame works except one object, and going back to reshoot is not on the table. You brush over what you want gone, hand it a reference photo of whatever should take its place, and it rebuilds that part of the picture to sit in the light and perspective already there.

Replace sits with the generation tools rather than in the main editor, so start there. Click Guided & GenAI on the home screen, then click Edit in the rail on the left and scroll the panel to GenAI Tools and pick Replace. If the Replace card is showing under What's New, that goes to the same place in one click. First time in you get a four-step preview of the whole flow, so click Start Now to move past it.

Click Import Photo to bring in your own shot, or click one of the three sample images if you just want to see what the tool does first. Before you go further, read the Recommended and Avoid panel on the right. It asks for a distinct object, the whole object brushed, and a replacement of roughly the same shape, and it warns against an unclear subject, no object selected, too small a brushed area, and a gradient background. Those are the difference between a clean swap and an obvious one.

Now mark the target. Set Brush Size to something that covers the object without spilling far past its edges, then paint over it. Cover the whole object rather than most of it, which is the Recommended panel's own advice, since a part-brushed object tends to leave fragments of the original behind. The brush row has an eraser and an undo next to it if you overshoot. Generate stays grayed out until something is actually brushed, so you cannot fire it off on an empty selection.

This is the part that separates AI Replace from a generic object swap. Reference Images is marked optional, but dropping in a photo of the exact thing you want is what gets you your product instead of the AI's idea of your product. We gave it a studio shot of a juice bottle and left Describe what you want in its place empty. If you don't have a photo to hand, that description box is the alternative and takes up to 800 characters. Worth noting: the credit figure on Generate moved from 2 to 6 once the reference image was attached, so read the button rather than assuming a flat price.

The swap comes back on the canvas with the rest of the frame untouched. Look at the edges and the light before you accept it: our bottle picked up the same hard beach sunlight and dropped a shadow onto the sand, and that shadow is the thing that makes it read as one photograph rather than two. Each result appears as a thumbnail under the canvas. When it looks right, click Download and Use.