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Using Refine tools on Layer

Using Refine tools on Layer

Refine tools help you finish assets for production. Upscale, Remove Backgrounds, Convert to Vectors - and more.

Updated over a week ago

The Refine Tool helps polish and prepare your images or videos for production. Whether you’re upscaling an image to 4K, cleaning up a background, or converting raster graphics into vectors - the Refine Tool gives you a fast way to improve asset quality without jumping into external software.

Refine works with both images and video, and is especially useful when you want to enhance clarity, optimize assets for different formats, or prep visuals for export and sharing.

What you can do in the Refine Tool

Choose between image or video refining

Start by selecting whether you’re refining an image or a video. The tool adapts based on your asset type.

Image Refinement Options

  • Upscale: Increase image resolution up to 8x or up to 4K. Adjust creativity and resemblance to balance added detail vs. staying close to the original.

  • Remove Background: Automatically remove the background from an image with a single click. Great for turning full scenes into isolated objects or characters.

  • Vectorize: Convert raster images into clean, scalable vector graphics. Download as SVGs for use in UI, icons, or flexible design systems.

Video Refinement Options

  • Upscale video resolution: Upload a video and upscale it up to 4K. Processing typically takes a few minutes, depending on length and complexity.

  • Flexible upload options: Upload from your Layer Drive or drag and drop files directly from your desktop.

  • Advanced controls for upscaling: Tweak the Creativity and Resemblance sliders to fine-tune how close the output stays to your original image and how much new detail AI should add.


When to use it

The Refine Tool is perfect when you’re getting assets ready for production, marketing, or delivery - and need them to be cleaner, sharper, or more versatile. Upscale concept art for presentations, remove backgrounds for compositing, or vectorize assets for UI and icons. It’s also great for turning rough sketches or low-res exports into polished, high-res visuals. Whether you’re cleaning up outputs or elevating early drafts, Refine helps you level up your assets quickly and easily.


UI Overview

Refine Panel

Select between image and video refining

Refine Panel: Image

Upload the reference image that you’d like to refine. Select the file from your drive and Drag and Drop the file from your local files.

Select image refinement options

Upscale images up to 8x or remove the background of your image. Turn your raster based image into a vector graphic (SVG).

Refine Tool: Upscale*

  • Scale Factor

    • Select the factor by which to upscale the image. Layer will preserve the aspect ratio while multiplying the size.

  • Creativity

    • Determine how creative Layer should be when upscaling your image. Higher values will deviate more from the original.

    • Too much creativity will add additional details.

  • Resemblance

    • How much the output should resemble your input image.

Refine Tool: Remove Background

Upload the image that you’d like to remove the background from. Select the file from your drive and drop from your local files.

Refine Tool: Vectorize

Upload the image that you’d like to vectorize. Select the file from your drive and Drag and Drop the file from your local files.

Refine Tool: Video Upscale

Upload the video that you’d like to upscale. Select the file from your drive and drop from local files. Videos can be scaled up to 4k.

*Tip for using Upscale: making adjustments to creativity scale and resemblance will give you different results. If you want to add more details to your scene, you may want to increase the creativity scale, if it added in too much details, you may want to decrease the creativity or increase the resemblance. To get the result you’re looking for, you will want to play with the settings and find what works for your creative vision.

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