Spaces & Whiteboard
Split into Layers
Cut the objects in a photo onto layers of their own, then move, hide or rearrange them.
Steps
- Tap a part to leave it out or bring it back, then tap Add — each part lands on a layer of its own.
- Select a photo and choose More › Split into Layers…, or choose Split into Layers in AI Tools or in Image Tools. The photo on the board becomes the preview.
- Objects finds each object — free, with a daily limit. Subject cuts out the main subject on this device, free and offline.
- Tap an object on the photo, or the circle by its name in the list, to leave it out or bring it back. Tap a name to see which object it is.
- Missing something? With Objects, tap Draw Around It, then drag a box around it in the photo to cut it out as another part.
- Under Background, Keep leaves the photo under the parts, and Hide shows only the parts.
- Fill repaints the photo without the objects. It costs credits, charged only once the new background is on your board.
- With Hide or Fill, the untouched original is kept on a hidden, locked layer — show it to compare.
- Tap Add. The parts land on their own layers, in a group named after the photo.
- Items drawn over the photo move to an Above Photo layer, so they stay on top of the parts.
- To bring the photo back, touch and hold its Original layer or the group and choose Restore Original.
- You can also ask the Design Partner: “Cut out the lamp and the chair.”
- Objects can also make hidden objects whole: an object partly hidden by another part you chose — a sofa behind a coffee table — shows Make Whole under its name. Tap it to have the object redrawn in full.
- People, see-through or growing things such as glasses, bottles and plants, objects cut off by the photo's edge, and parts you drew aren't made whole.
- When an object comes back whole, the parts in front of it fade for a moment so you can see all of it — touch and hold its name to see it again. Under its name, choose Whole or As cut.
- With Keep or Fill, a whole object shows only behind the parts you chose, so the photo looks the same until you move them. With Hide, it shows whole.
- Each object you add whole costs 7 credits, charged once, when you add. If you're short of credits, Make Whole shows how to get more.
- If objects are still being made whole when you tap Add, it waits up to 45 seconds and adds the ones that arrive whole — tap Add Now to add them as they were cut instead.
- In Layers, an object added whole is marked Made whole. To put it back exactly as it was cut from your photo, touch and hold its layer and choose Restore Exact Cut.
- Select a photo, then choose Split into Layers… in the More menu or in AI Tools.
- Click an object on the photo, or the circle by its name, to leave it out; with Objects, click Draw Around It and drag a box around something it missed to cut it out.
- Press Return to Add, or Esc to cancel — even while a Fill is working.
- With Objects, click Make Whole under an object partly hidden by another part you chose to have it redrawn in full. When it comes back, the parts in front fade for a moment so you see all of it; click its name to see it again, and choose Whole or As cut under it. Each object added whole costs 7 credits, charged when you add.
- While Add waits for objects being made whole, click Add Now to add them as cut, or press Esc to cancel. Later, Restore Exact Cut in its layer's menu puts an object back as it was cut.
Try it in uMake.
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