image-layers

On the rail as image-layers.

When to use it

Taking a finished layout apart into its pieces, background, product shots, logos and copy, so each one can be moved, reordered or replaced on its own.

When to reach for something else

It caps at seventeen layers, so an especially complex layout loses some detail. When all you need is one object pulled out rather than a whole layout broken apart, a plain cutout tool gets there with less setup.

How to use it

1. Drop a picture onto the card’s Image slot, from the board or your computer.
2. Pick a model in the pill at the top of the card, or keep Bria Layers.
3. Press Run.

On the card

Control	What it does	Choices
Image	The picture the tool works from. Drop one from the board or your computer.	One picture
Run	Starts the run. The number on it is what this run costs in credits, worked out before you press.

Models

The pill at the top of the card picks the model. Bria Layers is the one a new card starts on.

Model	Good for
Bria Layers	Takes a finished layout apart and opens the pieces in the Compositor on separate layers: the background, the product and logo cut out cleanly, and every line of copy traced as a vector outline. Made for ads, posters and packaging.
Seedream 5 Layerize	Pulling any picture apart into up to 17 named, z-ordered transparent layers with the background repainted behind them, opened as a Compositor stack; an optional prompt says which elements to separate.

Bria Layers

Not the one for: A photograph has nothing to separate and comes back whole. The source is downscaled to the service’s 800px ceiling before it is taken apart, and a run takes well over a minute.

This model has no settings behind the settings button.

Seedream 5 Layerize

Not the one for: The model decides the layer count and copy comes back as pixels, so designed work whose text must return as an editable vector outline belongs with Bria Layers; a run takes a couple of minutes.

This model has no settings behind the settings button.