Image to Layers AI does one specific job: you upload a flat image — a product shot, a portrait, an illustration — and it hands back the subject, background and individual objects as separate transparent PNG layers, ready to drop into any editor that understands a PNG. Which is all of them.
The pitch is aimed at everyone who has ever received a flattened JPEG and needed the logo moved, the background swapped, or the product isolated — with no source file in sight.
What it costs
Previews are free with an account, and paid credit packs start at $9.90, rising through $39 to $99 for volume. The site quotes turnaround at about a minute per image. As with every credit-pack tool, the honest per-image price depends on how many layers your images need — check the credit maths on their pricing page against your actual workload before buying the big pack.
What we can’t tell you
We have not run our own production images through it, so we can’t vouch for edge quality on the cases that actually hurt — hair, glass, semi-transparent shadows. Worth knowing before you pay: Photoshop’s own AI selection tools cover much of this ground if you already rent Adobe; the case for a standalone tool is that you don’t, or that you need it batched in the browser.
The details
| What it is | AI layer-splitter: flat image in, transparent PNG layers out |
| Price | Free previews · credit packs $9.90 / $39 / $99 |
| Best for | Rescuing flattened images when nobody can find the source file |
| Think twice if | You already pay for Photoshop — its selection AI covers most of this |
