When building websites or app UIs, you've probably run into this situation: the original PSD or Figma file is nowhere to be found, and all you have left is the finished image.
Think marketing banners, social media graphics, presentation slides, or game concept art.
Normally, re-editing these images means manually cutting out backgrounds in Photoshop, or painstakingly separating text and objects by hand.
That's where Magic Layers comes in — an AI-powered tool that breaks a single image down into multiple editable layers.
What Is Magic Layers?
Magic Layers is an AI tool that analyzes a single PNG or JPEG image and extracts its key visual elements as individual, independent layers.
Upload an advertising banner, for example, and it can separate out:
- Background
- Main image
- Text
- Decorative elements
- Icons
- Other primary objects
Each as a standalone transparent PNG.
Beyond simple cutouts, every layer also comes with a name, a description, and positional data indicating where it appeared in the original image.
Think of it less as a "background removal tool" and more as a tool that reconstructs the layer structure of a finished image — that framing makes its purpose much clearer.
How to Use It
The workflow is refreshingly straightforward.
1. Upload Your Image
Start by uploading a PNG or JPEG to Magic Layers.
Each job supports one image at a time. If the image is particularly large, it will be automatically resized.
2. Specify What to Separate
Optionally, you can give the AI a text prompt describing how you want the image broken down.
For example:
Separate all people in the image
or
Separate the text from the background
You can also set the number of output layers, anywhere from 2 to 15.
3. Review the Results
Once processing is complete, each extracted element appears as an individual PNG layer.
Selecting a layer shows you exactly where it was located within the original image.
Download whichever layers you need and bring them straight into Photoshop, Figma, Canva, presentation software, or a game engine.
How It Differs from Background Removal Tools
Standard background removal tools are built for a single, focused task — cutting out a subject. The flow looks like this:
Original image
↓
Cut out the person
↓
Person on transparent background
Magic Layers takes a fundamentally different approach:
Original image
↓
Decomposed into: background / person / text / decorations / product / etc.
↓
Multiple transparent PNGs
This makes it especially powerful when you need to repurpose a finished design for a different size or context.
Use Cases
Repurposing Social Media Content
Need to reformat an Instagram or X post into portrait, square, or landscape? Separate the subject and text first, then rearrange them freely.
Marketing Assets
Extract product images, headlines, backgrounds, and badges from an existing banner to build entirely new ad creatives.
Presentation Slides
Pull charts, icons, and text out of a finished slide image and reuse them in a different deck.
UI & Game Development
Break a game concept image or UI mockup into characters, backgrounds, and panels — perfect for quick prototypes or parallax scrolling effects.
About the Output Files
Magic Layers does not produce Photoshop PSD files or editable Figma design files. The output is transparent-background PNG layers.
This means the original fonts, vector data, and editable effects from the source design cannot be fully restored.
That said, since the output is standard PNG, you can import the layers directly into any design tool and perform operations like repositioning, scaling, masking, and compositing.
Credit System
Magic Layers runs on a credit-based model.
Each output image costs 2 Credits, and the base image itself counts as one image.
So if a job returns 6 images in total, that's 12 Credits consumed.
Notably, you're only charged for the images actually returned — not a flat fee per job.
Final Thoughts
Plenty of AI tools already handle simple background removal.
But separating a finished, single-layer image into distinct components — background, people, products, text, decorations — and putting them back into an editable state? That typically demands a lot of manual effort.
Magic Layers automates that process with AI.
It's particularly compelling when the original PSD or Figma file has been lost, or when you need to repurpose existing banners, social media graphics, or UI designs across different formats.
Give it a try at Magic Layers.
※ Results from AI-based image decomposition will vary depending on the source image and its content. For commercial use, always verify that you have the appropriate copyright and usage rights for any image you upload.
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