AI Image Extender & Outpainting Tool
Convert tight crops into sweeping wide-angle scenes. Extend 9:16 vertical smartphone photos to 16:9 widescreen wallpapers, desktop banners, or custom aspect ratios with seamless perspective and texture continuity.
Tight 9:16 CropAI Expanded 16:9 SceneLive AI Image Extender Studio
Upload any cropped photo. Select 16:9 or 21:9 in the studio aspect ratio selector and describe the extended environment.
Image Outpainting Showcase
Compare tightly cropped sources with the expanded results. The dashed frame marks the new canvas.
Seamlessly adds warm oak floorboards, wide windows, and sunset light across margins.
Keep the central sofa, coffee table, and room exact. Seamlessly expand the room horizontally into a 16:9 wide-angle shot, adding warm oak floorboards and large windows with golden sunset light.
Extends the charcoal backdrop, shoulders, and sweater around the original headshot.
Keep the exact person and pose. Expand the framing outwards into a wider editorial portrait, extending the charcoal studio backdrop seamlessly.
Generates a matching travertine podium and botanical backdrop on both sides of the square shot.
Keep the uploaded product bottle completely exact. Expand the sides into a 16:9 landscape commercial banner with travertine stone surface.
Extends the plaza, archways, and late-afternoon light around the original vertical photo.
Keep the central subject and expression unchanged. Expand the framing into a wide cinematic outdoor scene with matching sunlight.
Generative Outpainting & Scene Extrapolation
The model receives your upload as the center of a larger canvas, reads the edge context, and generates matching scenery around it. Because it redraws the full frame, compare the original area and the seams at full size before you publish.
Describe what should appear in the extended margins (e.g. 'extend the room to the left with warm floorboards and a wide window with afternoon sunlight').
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ReferencesOpenAI Image Generation GuideGoogle Gemini Image Generation Docs
4-Step Image Expansion Workflow
Four steps to uncrop photos into wide panoramic scenes.
Select the portrait or square photo you want to convert into a wider format.
Select 16:9, 3:2, or 21:9 in the studio aspect ratio dropdown.
Specify what should fill the extended edges: 'extend the room with warm floorboards and soft sunset window light'.
Inspect seamless blending along the original edges, then export in full 2K resolution.
Outpainting Prompts
Click any prompt to load directly into the studio workspace.
Keep the central room furniture and architecture completely exact. Expand horizontally into a 16:9 wide-angle view with matching flooring, ceiling beams, and soft natural daylight.
Converts vertical smartphone room photos into real estate banners.
Keep the central subject and trees unchanged. Expand the landscape outwards into a 16:9 panoramic vista with matching mountain horizons and blue sky.
Creates custom 4K desktop wallpapers from phone snaps.
Keep the product packaging and position exact. Outpaint the sides into an ultrawide 21:9 website hero banner with elegant matching background textures and soft shadows.
Perfect for Shopify and Amazon storefront headers.
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Image Expansion FAQ
How to uncrop photos, convert aspect ratios, and generate wide wallpapers.
It means using generative AI to predict and draw what was outside the original camera frame, turning a vertical or square photo into a wide landscape without stretching.
The prompt asks the model to keep the original area and generate only the new margins. Generative models redraw the full frame, so faces or text can shift slightly. Compare the center at full size before you publish.
Yes. Simply choose 16:9 in the aspect ratio selector, and the AI will generate matching left and right wings to fill the canvas.
Supports PNG, JPEG, and WebP files up to 10 MB per image and up to 8,192 pixels.
Yes. Test outpainting in the studio using our free tier or starting credits.
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