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Portrait to YouTube cover
Extend a vertical creator portrait into a 16:9 thumbnail with room for title text, guest names, or podcast episode artwork.
Interactive tool
Free AI Image Extender for Covers, Ads, and Product Shots
Turn a tight crop into a ready-to-use layout. Upload a portrait, product photo, travel shot, or room image, choose the final frame, and AI outpainting adds realistic space for thumbnails, storefront banners, social ads, and listing photos.
AI Image Extender10 credits per run
Tool preview
Drop an image to start — your result appears here
Result
Original
10 credits per run
- Free to try
- No signup for preview
- Pro plans for unlimited use
AI Image Extender
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Upload a JPG, PNG, or WebP image up to 10MB, such as a portrait, product shot, travel photo, real estate image, or social post crop.
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Choose the frame you actually need: 16:9 for YouTube and website heroes, 9:16 for stories, 1:1 for marketplace listings, or a custom canvas.
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Add optional guidance like "continue the studio backdrop" or "extend the beach and sky". The AI image extender fills the new space and returns a publish-ready image for websites, campaigns, and storefronts.
When to reach for this tool
Three concrete moments where this tool saves a step.
Creator covers and thumbnails
Turn a vertical headshot, podcast guest photo, or travel snap into a 16:9 YouTube thumbnail, newsletter header, or blog hero without cropping out the subject, so the same image can do more work across channels.
Product ads and storefronts
Add clean space around shoes, cosmetics, furniture, or accessories so the same photo works for Shopify banners, Amazon-style listings, Etsy previews, and paid social ads, without a reshoot.
Real estate and travel layouts
Widen Airbnb rooms, Zillow-style interiors, beach photos, city shots, and destination images into website heroes, booking pages, and campaign banners that feel ready for launch.
Real-world examples
Try it on your imageCompare common before-and-after workflows
Drag each image to see what changes, then run the same workflow on your own upload.
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Before02Product shot to ad banner
Give a tightly cropped product photo extra studio background so it fits Shopify hero sections, Amazon A+ content, and paid social creatives.
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Before03Listing photo to website hero
Widen a room, beach, cabin, or city photo into a clean hero image for rental listings, travel pages, newsletters, and booking campaigns.
Built into the same workflow as your generator
Built for real publishing sizes
Create 16:9, 9:16, 4:5, 1:1, and custom frames for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Meta ads, ecommerce stores, and landing pages.
Prompt-guided background continuation
Tell the tool to continue a studio wall, marble counter, blue sky, beach, sofa, street, or tabletop so the new canvas follows the scene you need.
No stretched edges
Expand the frame with generated surroundings instead of pulling pixels outward, so products, faces, rooms, and landscapes keep their original shape.
What people use it for
Faster than the standalone tools I was paying for, and it's already wired to my image generator.
LilaContent lead · Free Tools Half my workflow disappeared the day I realized I could prompt, upscale, and prep all in one tab.
TomásSolo founder · Free Tools The image-to-prompt step turned a slow part of my job into a 10-second copy-paste.
PriyaDesigner · Image to Prompt
Quotes from invited beta users; consent obtained, last names withheld.
Use with these models
Nano Banana 2
Nano Banana 2 keeps the speed of the base model but adds a quality dial — preview at 1K, sign off at 2K, ship at 4K. The detail in faces, hands, and material textures survives the upscale.
GPT Image 2
GPT Image 2 takes a long brief and gives back a finished image with the type set right, the references locked, and the world it depicts true to life — what diffusion-only models still get wrong.
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