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Upscale and remove the background

Upscale an image 2× with Magnific, or remove its background with Ideogram, Magnific or GPT Image 2.5 Cutout, on a canvas or from your Library, priced up front.

Two finishing tools for any picture in Fil. Remove background cuts the subject out onto transparency, for a product page, a sticker or a layer. Upscale ×2 doubles a picture's width and height with Magnific, sharpening and adding fine detail as it goes, for print or a large screen. Each makes a new picture and leaves the original as it was.

One credit, and the armchair is on its own

Remove the background

On a canvas:

Point at the picture and click the brush at its top right (Edit), then Remove background.
A new Image node named Cutout 2 (or another number) appears beside it, wired from the picture, on Ideogram Cutout. Its chip says Transparent PNG. Nothing runs, and nothing's spent, until you start it.
To use another remover, click Ideogram Cutout at the top of the node. That menu lists kinds of media: point at Image generation to open the image models, and pick GPT Image 2.5 Cutout or Magnific Cutout among them.
Click Generate (1 credit on Ideogram Cutout). A cutout takes 5 to 30 seconds.

The Cutout node's model menu: Image generation, open, beside Video, Audio, 3D and Code generation, and the image models with Ideogram Cutout ticked, then GPT Image 2.5 Cutout and Magnific Cutout — The three removers sit among the image models

The cutout shows on a checkerboard, on its node and full size, so you can see what's transparent. Download PNG in the node's panel, or Download in the full view, saves it with its transparency.

Which remover to pick:

Ideogram Cutout for most pictures: it keeps the subject's pixels exactly as they were.
GPT Image 2.5 Cutout when the others leave rough edges: it redraws the subject cleanly on transparency, so small details can change.
Magnific Cutout for hair, fur and fine edges, at full size.

Remover	Credits	How it cuts
Ideogram Cutout	1	Keeps the pixels
GPT Image 2.5 Cutout	About 10	Redraws the subject
Magnific Cutout	About 2	Full size, finest hair

GPT Image 2.5 Cutout has Resolution and Quality chips on its node: about 10 credits is 2K and Medium, 3 at Low and 31 at High. It holds that much and settles at what it used. Magnific's prices follow the euro, so they can differ by a credit. Every cutout is a PNG at the picture's own shape.

Upscale an image ×2

Point at the picture and click Edit, then Upscale ×2. Its line in the menu says the size it'll make, such as "Twice the size with Magnific · 4096 × 4096".
A node named Upscale 2 appears beside it, wired from the picture, on Magnific Upscale ×2. Its chip says 2× size, and Generate shows the price.
Click Generate. Magnific doubles the width and height, guided by the picture's own prompt, or by what you write in the node's text box.
Select the new node: its panel's Details say the size it made, such as Resolution 4096 × 4096.

The armchair's Image node beside a new Upscale 2 node, wired from it, on Magnific Upscale ×2, with 2× size and Generate for 46 credits — The Upscale node waits for Generate, with its price

Magnific charges by the size it makes, in euros at the day's rate, so the price grows with the picture and can move by a credit:

Picture	Upscaled to	About
1024 × 1024	2048 × 2048	12
1920 × 1080	3840 × 2160	23
2048 × 1152	4096 × 2304	34
2048 × 2048	4096 × 4096	46

Upscale ×2 is offered while a picture is under 3840 px on its long side and the doubled picture stays within 25.3 megapixels, the most Magnific makes. It keeps the picture's shape. For more than twice the size, upscale the result again while it's under 3840 px: 1024 → 2048 → 4096.

Upscale or remove backgrounds in the Library and Image view

Outside a canvas, both ask first and then run straight away. Start from any of these:

In the Library or the Image view, point at a picture: the icons at its top right include Remove background and the upscale icon (its tooltip reads Upscale ×2 and the size).
In the Image view, select a picture: its panel has Upscale ×2 and Remove BG buttons.
In the full view, the bar has Upscale and Remove background.

Asked first, then run: twice the size, 4096 × 4096

Then:

A menu asks Remove the background? or Upscale this image?, with each option's price.
To switch the result between Private and Public, click the last row first. The menu closes when you do, so open it again.
Click an option. The run starts at once, and its picture arrives at the top of the Image view, where its Recipe says the model, the cost and the size.

The Library, filtered to Image, with the armchair hovered and its icons showing, and the Remove the background? menu at its icon: Ideogram Cutout for 1 credit, GPT Image 2.5 Cutout for 10 and Magnific Cutout for 2, and Private, Stays yours, click to share it in Community — From the Library: pick a remover, and it runs

On a canvas, the full view's Upscale and Remove background close the full view and add the node instead, so you can check it before Generate.

Tips and limits

Remove background isn't offered on a picture that's already a cutout.
An Upscale or Cutout node takes exactly one picture. Wire in a second, and it says "Connect one image to upscale." or "Connect one image to remove its background."
A cutout, an upscale and the picture they come from stay linked on a canvas: the new node's Inputs shows the original. Feed the cutout on to a layer, a page or a video.
On a canvas, the new picture is public or private as the original's node is. See Image editing.
These runs can't be stopped once they start. A run that fails, or that's blocked, gives its credits back.
To cut out a subject that isn't in a picture yet, ask GPT Image 2.5 for it on a transparent background instead: see Make a transparent PNG.

What's next

Split an image into layers: every element on its own layer, not just the subject.
Crop an image: trim the cutout or the upscale to the shape you need.
Image editing: every tool, where it works and what it costs.