Edit an Image
Hover any picture on your canvas to crop it, turn it, change its look, or make a new image from it.
Before you start
- Open a canvas you can edit. The toolbar shows on one picture at a time, so hover or select a single picture, not a group.
- The picture must be finished: the toolbar doesn’t show while it is still uploading or generating.
- The edits on this page don’t run an AI image model, so they don’t use generation credit.
The whole flow
Watch a picture being cropped, or click a step under the replay to jump to it.
4 stepsCrop a picture on the canvas
Hover the picture
A toolbar appears above it: Crop, Rotate left and Rotate right (the two curved arrows), Color and Tools. Selecting the picture shows the same toolbar.
Click Crop
A white frame covers the whole picture, with grips on its corners and edges. The toolbar changes to the crop options.
Choose a shape
Pick a shape in the toolbar, or drag the grips and the frame yourself. The label under the frame shows the size you’ll get, in pixels.
| Option | Shape |
|---|---|
| Free (the four-corners icon) | Any shape you drag |
| Original (the picture icon) | The picture’s own shape |
| 1:1 | Square, for shops and Instagram |
| 4:5 | Portrait, for feed posts |
| 9:16 | Story, for Reels and TikTok |
| 16:9 | Wide, for YouTube and banners |
Turn on Add background to let the frame reach up to a quarter past the picture’s edges, then choose white, black or clear for the added area. The rotate buttons work here too.
Click Done
Click Done or press Enter. The same node takes the new shape at once, and the toolbar shows Saving… until the picture is stored. To leave without changing anything, click Cancel or press Esc.
Where your edits land
| What you use | Where the result goes |
|---|---|
| Crop, Rotate left, Rotate right, Color | The same node. The picture before the edit is kept as an earlier version. |
| A tool from Tools | A new image beside the original, connected to it. The original stays as it is. |
More you can do
Rotate
Click Rotate left or Rotate right. The picture turns a quarter turn at once, around its center.
RotateTurn a picture a quarter turn
Change the colors
Click Color. A panel opens under the picture with eight looks: Original, Brighter, Warm, Cool, Vivid, Soft, Black & white and Punchy. The picture previews each one as you pick it.
- Strength sets how much of the look you get.
- Fine-tune opens sliders for Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Tint.
Click Apply to save the look, or Cancel to leave the picture as it was.
ColorGive a picture a different look
Make a new image with Tools
Click Tools and pick one. A card for it appears beside the picture, connected to it. Fill in its settings and click the round arrow button (Run Add text, Run Resize and so on). When it finishes, the card becomes the new image, and Gavana confirms, for example, Add text created a new image on the canvas.
| Tool | What it does | What you set |
|---|---|---|
| Resize | The exact size a website, shop or printer needs | Width and Height, what to do When the shape differs, and For print with its DPI |
| Remove background | Keeps the product and drops what is behind it | Tolerance, 0 to 255: higher removes more colors similar to the edge, but can eat into the product |
| Side by side | Puts two images next to each other, like before and after | The Second image from your canvas, Direction, Gap and Background |
| Add text | Writes a headline, price or offer on the image | The text, where it sits, Style, Size, Text color and Behind the text |
| Overlay image | Puts a logo or another image on top | The Second image, Position, Overlay scale, Opacity and Margin |
ToolsMake a new image from a picture
On the Add text card, drag the text anywhere on the preview, or click one of its nine quick spots. If the text is too long for the picture, Gavana asks you to shorten it or pick a smaller size.
Change a tool’s result
Hover the new image. A bar along its bottom shows the settings it was made with.
- Click a setting to open the card again, change it and run it. Changed settings are marked Pending until you do.
- Regenerate (the circular arrows) runs the same settings again.
- Version history (the clock) lists the earlier results.
Go back to an earlier version
Every crop, turn and color change keeps the picture it replaced. On a picture you uploaded, click History, the clock button that joins the toolbar after your first edit. On a picture you generated, click Version history in the prompt bar that appears when you hover it. Then pick a version and click Use this version. Retry and Regenerate shows the version list.
Quick crop with Cmd or Ctrl
Hold Cmd (Ctrl on Windows) over a picture to show crop grips on its corners, then drag one to trim what the node shows. Crop in the toolbar then starts from that trimmed area.
Replace an uploaded picture
Hover or select a picture you uploaded and click Replace in its top-left corner to choose a different file. The node keeps its size and place.
Change what is in the picture
Crop, Color and Tools don’t redraw the picture. To change what is in it, such as a new background or setting, use it as a reference for a new generation: right-click it, open Create from image and choose Create from this image. See Use Reference Images.