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Find your way around copyimage.ai

A screen-by-screen tour of the app and what each control does.

Home

Home is where you land after signing in, with the sidebar on its left.

  • Upload: opens your photo in the Editor.
  • Your places: Editor, Agent, Workflows and Library, each with what it is for. Choose one to open it.
  • Recent: the images you worked on last, to reopen where you left off.
  • Usage: Credits left, Storage and Total copies. View usage opens your credits day by day.

More in Cut out an object.

The sidebar

The sidebar, down the left of every page, takes you between the places.

  • Home, Library, Editor, Agent and Workflows, each below.
  • Your plan, above your name, with the credits left this month, as in the picture of Home.
  • Your name opens the account menu:
    • Personal and your workspaces: choose one to switch. The gear beside the current one opens its settings.
    • Create workspace
    • Theme: Light, Dark or System
    • Settings: your account, plan and billing, and connected apps
    • Usage: your credits this month, day by day
    • Show tour: shows again the short tour of the page you're on, on Home, the Editor, a new Agent chat and Workflows
    • Chat with us: opens a chat with us. When we have replied, a blue dot shows on your picture at the bottom of the sidebar and this item shows "New reply".
    • Report a problem: the same chat, to tell us what went wrong
    • Log out

More in How credits work and Create a workspace.

The Library

The Library holds the images you keep, in folders. Ctrl + K opens its search from any page.

  • Search: finds the images on this page by their names, as you type.
  • The order, the arrows: Newest first, Oldest first, Name A–Z or Name Z–A, for the folders and the images.
  • Show as a list or Show as a grid: one button that switches the view.
  • Add: Upload and Import via URL add images; New folder adds a folder. Drag images onto a folder's card to move them there.
  • Point at an image for its buttons:
    • Its box selects it; a bar at the bottom then works on all the images you selected.
    • Copy: copies the image, to paste anywhere.
    • ⋯: the image's menu, marked above.

More in Add images.

The full view

Choose an image in the Library to see it large.

  • Copy, then the zoom: click the percentage for Zoom to fit.
  • ⓘ: the image's details and its text.
  • ⋮: Rename, Move to folder, Download and Delete.
  • ← and → step through the images; Esc closes the view.

More in Copy, download or export.

The Editor

The Editor works on one image by hand.

  • Cutout, Text and Remove: keep part of the photo, read its text, or take something out.
  • The bar under the photo:
    • Area: the cutout tool. Its menu also holds Lasso, Click and Exclude.
    • Show result, R, then Undo and Redo.
    • Copy, or Ctrl + C. The arrow beside it holds Export and Save to library.
  • On the left, a tile for each cutout, and + for New cutout.
  • On the right, your images, with + to add one.

More in Cut out an object, Copy text and Remove an object.

The Agent

The Agent does what you ask in words, on up to 20 images in one message.

  • Upload, Browse library and Import via URL: add the images, or drop them here. Browse library shows once your Library holds an image.
  • The message box: say what to cut out, remove or copy.
  • An example below fills in a sample photo and request.
  • History, the clock at the top right: your earlier chats.

More in Ask the Agent.

Workflows

A workflow runs saved steps, such as a cutout and a resize, on every image you give it.

  • Search: finds workflows by their names, as you type.
  • The order, the arrows: Last run, Newest first, Oldest first, Name A–Z or Name Z–A.
  • Show as a list or Show as a grid: one button that switches the view.
  • New workflow: start from a recipe, or describe the steps in a chat.
  • Run on a card adds images and runs them; so does dropping images on it.
  • ⋯ on a card renames or deletes it.
  • Open a card for its Results; the Editor tab beside them shows its steps.

More in Run a workflow on many images.

Where your images live

Images you add in the Editor, the Agent or a workflow stay there. They join the Library only through Save to library, or a workflow that saves to a Library folder. Images uploaded on the Library page go straight into it.

Questions

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