Premium Image Studio:
designed graphics you can actually edit

The Image Creator is a single app-shell workspace, not three disconnected tabs. Choose an intent (Auto, Photo, Graphic, or Carousel) and the engine plans a layout, renders it on-brand, and opens it in an editor you can touch. Typographic tweaks, family swaps, size changes, and undo are deterministic re-renders: they do not spend your monthly generation quota and do not call the image model again.

Auto mode picks the best family for your prompt and surfaces the top candidates when the brief is ambiguous, each option names what it can and cannot draw so you choose with eyes open. A measured quality report runs on every render and flags layout issues before you publish.

A designed graphic is no longer one monolithic template. The Stage splits the canvas into flush bands, copy, subject photo, chart, icon strip, and logo, so a single card can honestly carry everything your prompt asks for: a hero photograph, verbatim headline, a bar chart built from numbers you actually wrote, distinct icons, and your Brand Kit logo lockup.

When a band cannot fit, the solver drops regions in a fixed priority order (copy is never dropped first) and returns an explicit "unmet" note with a named fix instead of silently inventing content.

Thirty-two single-image families plus three carousel decks cover the layouts marketers actually ship: service stacks, case-study carousels, comparison tables, quote cards, tutorial step decks with browser-framed screenshots, and more. Three premium families, Sticky Note Board, Cinematic Banner, and Launch Composite, are built for launch-week and hero-announcement posts where typography, photography, and brand color need to feel agency-grade out of the box.

Four style presets. Editorial Minimal, Soft & Feminine, Bold Gradient, and Dark Premium, derive colors from your Brand Kit. Carousels and the full preset range are available on Pro and Agency.

Attach photographs, product shots, and app screenshots when you generate, from your Media Library or a fresh upload. Assets are user-supplied and licensed by you; the engine does not fetch third-party logos or brand marks from the web. Your own logo comes from Brand Kit; competitor marks appear only when you explicitly provide them.

Tutorial and product families frame screenshots inside browser and phone mockups so feature launches read like polished product marketing, not raw captures pasted on a background.

Click any word on the rendered image to focus its field in the quick editor, retype and re-render instantly. For finer control, open the document layer: detach a headline or checklist row, drag it, resize and rotate on a snapped grid, restyle type, and add new text boxes, shapes, icons, or images on top of the layout.

Selection-first controls keep each text box's type, size, color, and background independent. Add and recolor icons from the full built-in catalog, zoom in exact 5% steps, and switch to a clean preview with every editing outline hidden. Undo and direct edits use zero AI calls.

Every generation opens as a clean preview first. When you choose to customize it, changes stay in one responsive draft instead of saving after every gesture. Save once when the artwork is ready; if you leave with unsaved work, Image Studio asks whether to save, discard, or keep editing.

Edit mode materializes every rendered text layer at once and keeps one visual scene across Element, Design, Size, Options, and Finish. Click empty canvas to deselect, drag or resize without gesture collisions, set type in real output pixels, and reposition, zoom, or fade the photo inside its frame. Preset-owned fonts and colors update together; a font or color you override on one element stays owned by that element.

When the artwork is ready, send one image or the complete ordered carousel straight into caption generation, then review and schedule the finished post in the Content Calendar.

Every graphic sits on a plate, the layer underneath your editable elements:

• Family plate, a designed template (default for graphics and carousels).
• Blank plate, start from an empty canvas and build with elements only.
• Photo plate, an AI-generated or uploaded photograph with movable overlay elements (your Brand Kit logo, text plates, and shapes).
• Deck plate, edit individual carousel slides; add per-slide elements without breaking the deck structure.

Photo mode still generates diffusion backgrounds from your prompt or post text, then composites your Brand Kit server-side: logo watermark, palette-driven gradients, overlay templates, and typography. Toggle Auto-generate images in the Content Generator and every post can ship with a matching visual. Campaign batch generation fills empty campaign slots automatically.

Platform-optimized sizes cover square, landscape, story, and large-square presets. Every charged generation lands in your Media Library for reuse across posts.

Configure logo, colors, fonts, and overlay preferences once, every graphic and photo path reads them automatically. Every plan includes the Brand Kit; Pro+ adds style preferences (Professional, Vibrant, Neon themes; Photographic vs Illustration moods) that steer AI photo direction without breaking on-brand designed layouts.

A designed graphic is fully determined by its family, payload, preset, Brand Kit, size, and optional document, so text edits, element moves, preset swaps, and size switches re-render through a quota-free endpoint. Only net-new AI generations (fresh photos, new prompts, new carousels) count against your plan's imageGenerationsPerMonth allowance from paddle.ts.

This is a social-first design studio, not unrestricted Photoshop parity. You edit what the engine rendered or what you placed; there is no arbitrary pixel brush, no magic third-party logo fetch, and no promise that every auto-generated typographic poster will be perfectly editable (some AI-painted headline paths are best-effort by construction). What you get instead: layouts that match your prompt, copy quoted from your words, and controls that either work or stay off the screen.

Premium Image Studio capabilities are included in every plan, one monthly generation pool covers photos, designed graphics, and carousels alike:

• Free, 8 generations per month
• Starter, 40 generations per month + Brand Kit
• Pro, 120 generations per month + full Brand Kit + carousels
• Agency, 360 generations per month + full Brand Kit + carousel decks, which draw on that same allowance rather than a separate uncapped one

Image generation fails in a way most tools do not describe. We route across a chain of models, and on 28 July 2026 the paid one at the front of that chain started returning 402, out of credit. The router kept starting from the top anyway, so every request spent two round trips failing before reaching the model that costs nothing, and those two round trips ate the wall-clock budget. The free model was left too little time to finish, and the whole chain reported “aborted due to timeout”. To a customer that reads as the product being broken, not as a billing problem upstream.

Two changes, both still in the router:

• A 402 is remembered. Once a model says it is out of credit, the chain stops paying two round trips to be told again.
• The last model gets a reserved budget. The chain is held to 36 seconds rather than the route's full 60, so the one model that cannot fail on payment always has room left to run. On the day, that was the difference between a failed render and a 1.3-second one.

The honest caveat: a chain means a busy premium model can still hand you output from a cheaper one. You get an image rather than an error, which is the trade we chose, and the reason we are telling you is that a render arriving from the fallback is not the same as the one you would have got.