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IntoLayers is live: split any image into editable layers with AI

I've spent the last few weeks building IntoLayers, an AI image to layers converter, and it's live today.

The problem

You have a finished image — a poster, a flyer, a social graphic someone exported as a flat PNG — and you need to change one thing in it. The text is wrong, the offer changed, the source file is gone. Normally that means masking things out by hand, or regenerating the whole image and hoping nothing else shifts.

What it does

Upload a PNG or JPEG, click Convert, and IntoLayers hands back the design as separate, named, transparent layers instead of one flat image — text, subjects, graphics and a reconstructed background, each on its own layer with the gaps filled in behind whatever it removed.

One poster in, six layers out, as an example:

  • Poster gradient background
  • Terracotta flower pot
  • Monstera plant foliage
  • Spring sale subtitle
  • GREEN HOUSE main title
  • NEW badge

Download any layer on its own as a transparent PNG, or export the whole stack as a single layered PSD that opens straight into Photoshop, Photopea, Figma or Affinity Photo.

A few details I cared about

  • It's not background removal. A background remover gives you one cutout and throws the rest away. This keeps every element as its own layer and rebuilds what was behind it.
  • PSD packaging happens client-side. The layers get assembled into the PSD file in your browser, so the image isn't re-uploaded anywhere just to zip the layers together.
  • No account needed to try it. One conversion at 1K is free; signing in unlocks 1.5K/2K output and keeps results in a library.

Who it's actually for

This started from a narrow set of situations that kept coming up: fixing one wrong element in an AI-generated image without regenerating the whole thing, updating an approved campaign visual after the offer changed, or picking up a flyer whose working file walked out the door with whoever made it.

If any of that sounds familiar, I'd like the feedback: intolayers.com. No signup required for the first conversion.

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