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Layered compositing for your AI images

Stack your generations, text and paint in layers, add GPU shaders and film looks, and turn any scene into a template you can run in Nodes.

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Compose in Hylope: a soda can scene built in layers, the can, an orange character, droplets, bubbles and fruit slices each on its own layer, with the layers panel on the left and the selected layer's properties on the right

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Layers, blend modes and masks

Stack images, text, paint and gradients, blend them with eight modes, and mask any layer by painting or from another layer.

Two cars on a snowy mountain road under an image layer, two text layers, a Pixel Sort FX layer and a Complement look, the title FX Distortion selected on the canvas

Shaders and effects

Add halftone, riso print, pixel sort, VHS, film grain and more than 30 other GPU effects to a layer, or to everything below an FX layer, and stack them as you like.

The shader picker, its effects sorted into Print, Color, Texture, Light, Distortion, Graphic, Retro and Photo

Looks

Grade the whole scene with a film look, from Golden Hour to Noir, and set its strength, halation and grain.

A Look layer with the Golden Hour look over a portrait, its strength, halation and grain beside it

Templates for Nodes

Mark layers as template slots, and your scene becomes a node in Nodes: each row of inputs renders its own version. Discover Nodes

In Nodes, an Image node wired into the visual slot of a Compose Template node, and the scene rendered with that image

Start a scene from your images

A collage of six images opened in Compose, one layer per image

Moodboards in one click

Select up to 20 images in the Gallery, pick a layout, and save a collage you can edit in Compose, one layer per image.

A soda can image split into its parts, each one its own named layer in the Layers panel

Extract layers

Split an image into its subjects, text and background, and get a new Compose scene with each one on its own layer.

Also in Compose

Improve Sketch

Draw a rough storyboard frame, and AI redraws it as a finished image on a new layer.

Generated backgrounds

Fill a layer with a mesh gradient, a studio backdrop, an aurora or plasma, without an image.

Text

Set titles and captions in 16 fonts, with control over weight, spacing and alignment.

Linked to your Gallery

Image layers stay linked to their Gallery asset, so you can switch to its latest version or another variation.

Versions

Save a scene as a new version, and choose the one the Gallery shows.

Export up to 4K

Download your scene as a PNG at up to 4K, or save it to the Gallery.

Questions

Which files can I use in Compose?

Images from your Gallery or your computer. Videos join a collage as stills, and scenes export as PNG.

How does a scene become a template?

Mark the layers you want to change as template slots. In Nodes, the scene becomes a Compose Template node with one input per slot.

Do shaders and looks cost credits?

No. Shaders, looks and generated backgrounds run on your graphics card, instantly. Extract layers and Improve Sketch use AI models and cost credits, shown before you run them.

Does Extract layers change my image?

No. It creates a new Compose scene, and your image stays as it was.

Ready to create?

Hylope 1.7 is open to everyone. New accounts start with 100 free credits.

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