How to Use AI Replace in Promeo

Q: Where does the photo go once I click Done?

Straight into the design you are building, as the Main Object layer above Background . Text, stickers and the rest of the Promeo toolbar all still apply on top of it, and Export is how the finished campaign version leaves Promeo. Save to My Library , at the top of the tool, saves the edited photo on its own, so you can reuse it in another design.

Paint one object out of a product photo, describe what belongs there instead, and get a second version of the same shoot.

Updated Aug. 17, 2026 · 7 min read

In a hurry? Use the AI Replace quick guide instead.

Promeo's AI Replace changes one object in a product photo you already have: paint over what should go, then describe what belongs there instead. That matters when one shoot has to work twice, a plain version for the listing and a dressed-up one for the campaign, and a reshoot is not on the table.

Before

Desk scene with a lit lamp on the left, a laptop in the middle and a lily in a pot on the right — Before: the lamp that suited the first campaign.

After

The same desk scene with the lamp replaced by a stack of cream and sage hardcover books — After: books in the same spot, the laptop and the lily untouched.

⚡ Quick Answer: How to Use AI Replace in 5 Steps

In Promeo, open the Product Design AI Tools tab and click the AI Replace card.
Drag your product shot onto the drop area, or click one of the three sample photos.
Set a brush Size, paint over the object you want gone, then click Next.
Say what belongs there instead under Describe the image you want to generate, then click Generate.
Pick one of the three results, click Done, and finish the design around it.

Steps to Use AI Replace

Step 1: Open AI Replace in Product Design AI Tools

On the Home screen, open the Product Design AI Tools tab and click the AI Replace card in the second row.

It opens on a screen of its own rather than inside a design, and that order is the point: you fix the photograph first and decide where it gets used afterwards.

Promeo Home screen with the Product Design AI Tools tab and the AI Replace card both highlighted — The tab at the top, the card in the second row.

Step 2: Bring In the Shot You Already Have

Click Drag your photo here, or click to import and choose your file. The three sample photos underneath are there if you would rather see how the tool behaves before putting your own work through it.

We took the middle sample, a desk scene with a lamp to the left of the laptop, because it has what most product photos have: a prop that made sense for one campaign and not for the next.

AI Replace import screen with the drag and drop area highlighted and the middle sample photo highlighted below it — Import your own shot, or start from one of the three samples.

Step 3: Paint Over the Prop You Want Gone

This is the step that decides how clean the swap looks. The tool is Manual Brush: set a Size slightly wider than the edge you are tracing, then drag across the object until it is covered.

Go past the outline rather than stopping short of it. Anything left unpainted stays in the finished picture, and a sliver of the old prop is exactly what a customer spots first.

AI Replace brush panel highlighted, showing Manual Brush and the Size slider set to 64 — Manual Brush and Size sit at the top of the panel, above the canvas controls.

The painted area shows up as a solid red shape on the canvas, so you can check your coverage instead of guessing at it. Ours covers the whole lamp, handle included, along with the pool of light it was throwing onto the table. Once something is painted, Next becomes available and carries you through to the description.

The lamp covered by a red painted mask on the canvas, with the now active Next button highlighted in the panel — Red means selected. Next only wakes up once there is a mask to work from.

Step 4: Write What Should Take Its Place

Promeo hands you a text box rather than a picker here. That is more useful than it sounds, because you are describing something that has to sit in light the photo already has.

Under Describe the image you want to generate, work in this order:

the object
its material and color
the light and the shadow

Ours read: a stack of three hardcover books lying flat, muted cream and sage covers, soft warm diffused light, subtle contact shadow at the base.

The counter in the corner of the box caps you at 250 characters, so spend them on material, color and shadow rather than on adjectives about quality. Then click Generate.

The Describe the image you want to generate box holding the book description, with the Generate button highlighted below it — The description, and the character counter keeping it short.

Step 5: Pick the Version That Suits the Campaign

One run comes back with three versions rather than one, which is the part that quietly saves the reshoot: same photo, same mask, three takes on the same description.

Click a thumbnail to load it onto the canvas, then use Compare to hold it against the original before you commit. If none of the three works, Generate More runs your description again for another set. When one is right, click Done.

Three generated thumbnails highlighted with the second one selected, alongside the Compare, Generate More and Done buttons — Three results per run, with the selected one outlined and showing on the canvas.

The result

The finished photo drops back onto the canvas as the Main Object layer. The lamp is gone, the books sit in the same warm light the left of the frame already had, and the laptop and the lily are exactly as they were shot, so the picture still matches the rest of the set it came from.

From here it is an ordinary Promeo design: add your headline and price on top, then Export when the campaign version is ready. The original photograph carries on doing its job on the listing page.

The swapped photo back in the Promeo editor as the Main Object layer, with the Export button highlighted — One shoot, two usable images, and the second one is already sitting in a design.

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FAQ About AI Replace

1. Can I paint over a whole background instead of one object?

Yes. A wide sweep behind the product works the same way a small prop does, and the description box is where you say what the new backdrop should be. Keep the product itself unpainted and it comes through as photographed. The bigger the painted area, the more the description has to carry, so name the surface, the color and the direction of the light rather than only the mood you are after.

2. How many versions do I get from one run?

Three. They appear as thumbnails under the description box, with the one currently on the canvas outlined. Generate More runs the same description again and adds another set, and Replace More starts a fresh swap on the image you have now, so you can change one prop, keep that result, and then go after another.

3. What should I actually write in the description box?

Brief it the way you would brief a stylist: the object, its material and color, then the light and the shadow. Ours named three hardcover books, muted cream and sage covers, soft warm diffused light and a contact shadow at the base. That last detail is what put the books on the table rather than floating above it.

4. Where does the photo go once I click Done?

Straight into the design you are building, as the Main Object layer above Background. Text, stickers and the rest of the Promeo toolbar all still apply on top of it, and Export is how the finished campaign version leaves Promeo. Save to My Library, at the top of the tool, saves the edited photo on its own, so you can reuse it in another design.