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One photograph rarely fits a feed post, a Story and a thumbnail. Expand it into each shape instead of cropping three times and losing the subject.
Free AI outpainting
AI Image Extender: expand any photo past its edges
Upload a picture, choose the shape it has to fit, and AI paints in what was never in the frame — up to 4096px on every side. Nothing is cropped away, and there is nothing to re-shoot.
5 credits
The expanded image opens in a session you can come back to, at the shape you picked.
How it works
Expand an image in three steps
- Step 1
Upload your image
Drop in a JPG, PNG or WebP. The picture you upload stays exactly as it is — everything the AI makes goes around it.
- Step 2
Choose the shape
Pick 16:9, 1:1, 9:16 or 4:3, or zoom out to keep the original proportions and simply stand further back. The preview shows the area that will be filled.
- Step 3
Generate and download
The result opens in a session you can return to, so you can download it, run it again at a different shape, or carry it into the workflow editor.
Before and after
A square photo, widened to 16:9
1024 × 1024 out to 1820 × 1024 — 398px added on each side, which is exactly what choosing 16:9 asks for. 
The catalogue case: a square product shot widened into a banner. The plinth edge and the backdrop gradient carry on across the join. A tight portrait given the width for a headline. The wall keeps its mottling and the light keeps falling the same way across the join.
What it is for
When a picture has to fit somewhere else
Product listings
Marketplaces want a specific ratio and a margin around the product. Widen a tight studio shot rather than re-shooting it on a bigger sweep.
Banners and hero images
A wide site header out of a photo that was never wide. The subject stays where it is and the scene continues past the old edges.
Room for type
Posters, covers and cards need empty space a photographer did not leave. Extend the background and put the headline in it.
What outpainting does
It grows the picture, it does not stretch it
Only ever adds
Reaching a new ratio by cropping would throw away part of the picture. This does the opposite: the original stays untouched at its full size, and the shorter side is padded until the frame is the shape you asked for.
Continues the scene
The model reads the lighting, texture and perspective at the edge and carries them outward, so the new area belongs to the same photograph rather than sitting beside it.
Up to 4096px per side
That is the ceiling on each of the four sides, so a picture can grow by more than its own width in a single run. Very large expansions are also where a model has the least to work from, so several smaller steps often read better than one enormous one.
Pay per image, not per month
Every plan includes credits you can spend on this page or anywhere else on YouArt.
Basic
For hobbyists and explorers
$9.99/mo
Select Plan- 1000 credits
- Up to ~200 images/month
- Up to ~332s video/month
- Intelligent creative agent
- Video editor
- Latest image models, including GPT Image 2.5, GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana Pro
- Latest video models, including Seedance 2
- Realistic face uploads
- Voice generation with ElevenLabs
- No watermark
- Unlimited template access
Pro
Most PopularFor creators and pro users
$29.99/mo
Select Plan- 3300 credits
- Up to ~1000 images/month
- Up to ~1100s video/month
- Intelligent creative agent
- Video editor
- Latest image models, including GPT Image 2.5, GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana Pro
- Latest video models, including Seedance 2
- Realistic face uploads
- Voice generation with ElevenLabs
- No watermark
- Unlimited template access
Max
For power users and teams
$149.99/mo
Select Plan- 18000 credits
- Up to ~6000 images/month
- Up to ~6000s video/month
- Intelligent creative agent
- Video editor
- Latest image models, including GPT Image 2.5, GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana Pro
- Latest video models, including Seedance 2
- Realistic face uploads
- Voice generation with ElevenLabs
- No watermark
- Unlimited template access
Team
For teams and studios
$329.99/mo
Select Plan- 36300 credits
- Up to ~12000 images/month
- Up to ~12100s video/month
- Realistic face uploads
- Share canvas, workflows, and assets with your team
- Up to 10 members per team
- Up to 5 teams
- Role-based management
- Team credit management and spending caps
- Per-member usage tracking
Questions
AI image extender FAQ
- What is an AI image extender?
- It is a tool that generates new picture outside the edges of an existing photo — often called outpainting or uncropping. Instead of cutting the image down to a new shape, it invents the part of the scene that was never in the frame, matching what is already there.
- How far can an image be expanded?
- Up to 4096 pixels on each of the four sides in a single run, so a picture can more than double in either direction. The further you go the less the model has to reason from, so a very large expansion is usually better done as two smaller ones.
- Is this the same as upscaling?
- No, and it is the most common mix-up in this field. Upscaling adds pixels inside the picture you already have, making the same image larger and sharper. Extending adds picture around it — new area that was not photographed. If your image is small rather than tightly cropped, use the image upscaler instead.
- Does it change the original part of the photo?
- No. The area you uploaded is preserved at full size and full detail; only the new margin around it is generated. That is also why the result is always at least as large as the file you started with.
- Which aspect ratios can I expand to?
- 16:9, 1:1, 9:16 and 4:3, plus a zoom-out option that keeps the original proportions and simply adds room on all four sides. A shape your image already has is greyed out, because expanding to it would add nothing.
- Which file formats work?
- JPG, PNG and WebP. Transparency is not preserved — outpainting fills the new area with generated picture, so the result is an opaque image.
- What happens to the image I upload?
- It is uploaded to your own YouArt account so the run can read it, and the result opens in a session only you can see. Nothing is published anywhere unless you share it yourself.
More tools
Other things to do with the same file
Each one does a single job on a file you already have — no prompt to write and no editor to learn.
Beyond one image
Need more than a bigger frame?
This page runs one fixed step. Open the workflow editor to chain an expansion into an upscale, a background removal or a generated backdrop — or to run a batch of images through the same graph.