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AI Image Extender — expand your image beyond the frame
The photo is great, but it’s the wrong shape — too square for a banner, too wide for a story. The AI image extender imagines what lies past the edges and paints it in, while your original photo stays pixel-for-pixel intact at the center.
AI outpainting bench
A local alpha mask protects the center; only the generated perimeter and a narrow seam band are accepted
Choose one image to extend
20MB maximum. The source will be uploaded to PixArmory and OpenAI only after you confirm the credit quote.
Drop, browse, or paste an image
STEP BY STEP
How to extend an image with AI
Upload your photo
Any picture that needs to be a different shape — a portrait that must become a banner, a landscape that needs to fill a story.
Pick the new shape
Choose 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, or 3:4. Your photo sits at the center; the tool shows what will be filled in around it.
Describe the surroundings (optional)
Leave it blank and the AI continues the scene naturally, or guide it: “more beach and sky”, “continue the forest”.
Check the price, generate, inspect
The exact credit cost appears before you commit. Afterwards, look over the new areas — especially where they meet the original.
SEE THE RESULT
Examples that make the workflow clearer
A square scene with room for a wide banner
The extension adds lake, shoreline, forest, and sky at the sides while the centered square scene stays unchanged.
Before
AfterREAL-WORLD USES
When extending beats cropping
One photo, every aspect ratio
A YouTube thumbnail, an Instagram story, and a website hero all want different shapes. Extend the same photo instead of cropping away its subject three different ways.
Room for text and titles
Designers extend the sky or a wall to create clean space for a headline — the product or person stays exactly where the photographer put them.
The shot that was framed too tight
When the camera cut off the scenery you remember, outpainting gives the scene breathing room again.
WHAT YOU GET
What makes this AI image extender careful
Your original is protected
Only the new outer areas are AI-generated. The tool re-places your untouched original over the result, blending just a thin seam — the AI cannot “improve” your subject behind your back.
Exact ratios, not approximations
The five presets produce exactly the shape your platform asks for. No manual canvas math.
You approve the price first
The credit cost is displayed before generation ever starts — no surprises on your balance. Failures are automatically refunded.
A serious model behind it
Extension runs on GPT Image 2, a state-of-the-art image model, tuned here to continue scenes rather than redesign them.
01 / FIELD NOTE
What to expect from AI outpainting
The AI performs best continuing textures and scenery: skies, water, walls, foliage, streets. It can struggle with things that must follow strict rules — long text, complex patterns, or a person cut off at the frame’s edge. If the AI must invent half a body, results vary; regenerating usually offers a better take.
Always review the seam where generated meets original, and treat extended photos honestly — the new areas are plausible invention, not what the camera saw. Don’t use them where the full image is evidence of anything.
NEXT / WORKFLOW
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
AI image extender — common questions
Does the AI change my original photo?
No — this is the core promise. The original sits in the center untouched, and only the newly added regions come from the AI, blended along a thin edge. What you shot stays what you shot.
How much does extending an image cost?
It uses credits, with the exact amount shown before you generate — currently from 15 credits per extension. New accounts receive a one-time welcome bonus that can cover a first try, and failed generations are refunded automatically.
Can I extend an image without a prompt?
Yes — the prompt is optional. Left empty, the AI simply continues the existing scene. A short description helps when the edges are ambiguous or you want something specific out there.
Can I extend to a custom size?
This version offers five fixed ratios (16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4), which cover the common platform shapes. For exact pixel dimensions afterwards, run the result through the free Image Resizer.
Extend or crop — which should I use?
Crop when the photo has expendable area — it’s free and instant. Extend when cropping would cut into the subject, or when you need space that was never in the frame. Many workflows use both: extend to the ratio, crop to taste.
AI, when the task calls for it
Want to change what’s IN the photo instead?
The extender deliberately refuses to touch your original pixels. To edit the subject itself — remove objects, change styles, retouch — use the AI Photo Editor.
Open AI Photo Editor