Skip to main content

How to create and edit renderings in Image Editor

Open a photo or a Handy image in Image Editor, make changes, add a reference image, or remove an area. Each change saves to your project, ready to use in a proposal.

Written by Dave Pucci

To edit a photo or a rendering, open it in Image Editor from your project's Files, from the file preview, or from the Edit with AI card in a Handy chat. Describe a change, and the result is saved to your project, ready to use in a proposal.

Available on all paid plans. You need permission to edit Files. Works on desktop and in the mobile app.

Open an image in Image Editor

Image Editor opens JPEG, PNG, and WebP images. Other file types don't show the edit option. Use any of these entry points:

  • From Files: in your project, open Files, select the three-dot menu on an image, and select Edit. On the mobile app, press and hold the image to open the same menu.

  • From a preview: open the image, then select Edit image in the preview header.

  • From Handy: ask Handy (Handoff's AI assistant) for a picture, such as a fence or a patio. When the image is ready, select Edit with AI on the chat card.

A project's Files list with the three-dot menu open on a photo and Edit highlighted, among Download, Rename, Move, and Delete.

Handy makes an image only when you ask for a visual. A photo you attach, or a request to build something, doesn't create one.

Change the image

  1. In Image Editor, choose a tool: Make changes, Add image, or Remove area.

  2. For Make changes, describe one change, such as "replace the siding with gray board and batten". To place the change exactly, select a spot on the image first.

  3. For Add image, upload a photo or choose one from your project files as a reference, such as a material sample. On the mobile app, the tool is labeled Add Reference Image.

  4. For Remove area, choose a brush size and paint over the area to remove.

  5. Select Send (the arrow button).

Image Editor with a window photo and Describe your edit filled in, with the Send arrow highlighted.

Each change makes a new version. The version history shows under the image, and you can go back to an earlier version. If Handy warns that it may have trouble with a request, select Continue anyway or Change the request.

Image Editor showing the edited photo with a new white window, the change described below it, and the version history highlighted.

Where your edited image is saved

Each change you make is saved to your project automatically. The new image appears in the project's Files with an AI label, and Saved to project shows briefly at the top of Image Editor.

If you started from a Handy chat and the image has no project yet, choose a project, and the image is saved there.

Download the image

Select Download file to save the image to your device. This works on desktop and in the mobile app.

Use a saved rendering in a proposal

Image Editor has no button that inserts an image into a proposal. The rendering is already in your project's Files, so add it from the proposal.

  1. Open the proposal and go to the Files section. If there isn't one, add a Files section from the insert menu.

  2. Open the section editor and select Select from project.

  3. Choose the rendering, then confirm.

The image appears in the proposal and in its PDF. You can add a caption and choose a single-, two-, or three-column layout for the section.

Related

Did this answer your question?