A render is rarely wrong everywhere. The facade material is the question, or the sky, or the car that wandered into the site photo. An AI image editor that regenerates the whole frame is a generator wearing an editor’s name. EXXY AI (EXXY AI Studio) by Unimelabs puts a dedicated AI image editor — masking, inpainting, and a choice of models — next to Creative Studio and Slides, so professional work can change one region without throwing away the rest.
That distinction sounds small until you have a client presentation on Thursday and a landscape architect who only wanted the paving swapped.
What an AI image editor has to do that a generator does not
Generation starts from a prompt and makes a new image. Editing starts from an image that already has a job: a photograph, a base render, a still from last week’s option study. The professional constraint is conservation. Lighting, camera, and the parts of the design that are decided should survive.
An AI image editor for professional work therefore needs masking (a way to say “only this wall”), inpainting (fill that mask so the seam is not a second composition), more than one model, and a place in the project so the edited file returns to Slides and the asset library — not a download folder named final_v3.
EXXY’s Image Editor is built for that list. The feature walkthrough is AI Image Editor. This article is the professional-work cut: when to use the dedicated panel, when to stay on the Creative Studio canvas, and how masking earns its keep.
Creative Studio is the canvas; the Image Editor is the precision panel
EXXY AI Studio has two visual surfaces that teams confuse, because both can make pictures.
Creative Studio is the full-bleed canvas for generating and assembling visual work — images, video, and 3D — with floating tools and a prompt composer. It is where you explore. You generate a base render, try a second model, drop a clip beside it. The canvas is the studio floor.
The Image Editor is the dedicated editing panel. You send an image there when the task is precision: mask a region, inpaint a material, remove a crane, run style transfer at a chosen strength. It is not a smaller Creative Studio. It is the retouch bay.
The handoff is intentional. An image from chat, from an upload, or from Creative Studio can open in the Image Editor. The result returns to the project library for Slides, Designer Studio, or the next generation pass. Professional work is a pipeline. A single infinite canvas that cannot isolate an edit is how you accidentally restyle the whole elevation when you meant the cladding.
If you only need a new hero image from text, stay in Creative Studio or chat. If you need an AI image editor in the strict sense — change part of a photo, keep the rest — use the Image Editor panel.
Masking, inpainting, and model choice
Masking is how you name the region. In EXXY’s AI image editor you draw it: freehand, geometric selection, or AI-assisted edges that follow a window mullion instead of a shaky lasso. The rest of the pixels are off-limits.
Inpainting fills the mask so new content agrees with unmasked lighting, perspective, and materials. When it works, you cannot find the seam. When it fails, you still have the original everywhere else — which is why this is safer than a full regenerate for client work. Typical uses: material options without a new camera; sky and site clutter; heritage and site-photo repair; unifying a set rendered months apart.
Style transfer is the sibling tool, not a substitute. It applies tone, texture, and palette from a reference. Use it to unify a pack. Do not use it when you only needed the door colour changed; that is a mask.
A single model will be good at the demo and average at your job. EXXY exposes Stability AI for photoreal architecture, FLUX when the brief is technical, Qwen for multilingual prompts, and GPT Image when the edit should see the rest of the workspace. Switch models on the same image, or run the same instruction across models and keep the best region. The free tier covers real editing. Pro and MaxMode unlock the stronger models. Pick the model for the region, not the most expensive one for every sky swap.
Review still applies to pretty pictures
A swapped material can imply a specified product you have not chosen. A cleaned site photo can misrepresent the neighbour. EXXY’s rule is the same as for BIM and documents: look at it, then export. Edited images sit in the project until you approve them into a deck or a download.
This AI image editor is for architects iterating options on a still they already like, engineers and contractors producing site imagery without a retoucher on staff, and marketing teams adapting photography. Creative Studio remains the canvas. Slides remains the deck. Unimelabs built them as one product so the retouch does not live in a tab you forget to sync.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an AI image editor?
An AI image editor is software that changes an existing image with generative tools — typically masking and inpainting — rather than only creating a new picture from a prompt. EXXY’s Image Editor is that panel inside EXXY AI Studio: generate if you need to, but edit when the photograph or render already exists.
Can an AI image editor change only part of a photo?
Yes. That is what masking is for. You select a region, describe the replacement, and inpainting fills only that region. The unmasked pixels stay. If a tool cannot do that, it is a generator, not an AI image editor.
How is the Image Editor different from Creative Studio?
Creative Studio is the canvas for generating and assembling images, video, and 3D. The Image Editor is the dedicated precision panel for masking, inpainting, style transfer, and model-specific edits. You can send work from the canvas into the editor and back.
Open the AI image editor when the region is the point, keep exploring on the Creative Studio canvas, and read the feature guide AI Image Editor. Compare plans for advanced models.
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