Editing a thumbnail

Autosave, drafts and undo

No save button. Close the tab and the editor offers your draft back, telling you how old it is.

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Your edits save themselves

The editor writes your work to your account automatically, about a second after you stop making changes. There is no save button and nothing to remember. What gets saved is the whole working state: the current image, every text layer, any popped-out cutout, and the undo history.

Close the tab, lose your connection, or come back three days later — the editor recognises the draft and offers to restore it, telling you how old it is ("saved 2 hours ago").

The save indicator

StateMeaning
SavingA write is in flight
SavedEverything up to your last change is stored on your account
Not savedThe write failed — usually a dropped connection

If it says the draft is not saved, do not close the tab. Make any small change to trigger another write, and if it still fails, download the current image so nothing generated is lost.

Undo

Every generative edit — a mood, an expression, a swap, a custom instruction — pushes the previous image onto an undo stack before it replaces it. Undo steps back one edit at a time.

The stack keeps the most recent steps rather than the entire session's history. In practice you are never more than a few steps from where you want to be, and if you are, the better move is to undo to a known-good state and write one precise instruction rather than unwinding twelve edits.

Undo is your credit-saving tool

Every generative edit costs a request. Undo does not. When an edit goes wrong, undo first and then rethink the instruction — stacking a corrective edit on top of a bad one costs two requests and usually produces a worse image than starting from the good state.

Draft vs. finished thumbnail

Two different things live in your account:

  • The thumbnail — the generated image itself, visible in Projects and Downloads. It is the record of what you made.
  • The draft — your in-progress editing state for that thumbnail: layers, cutouts, undo history. It is what the editor restores when you return.

Downloading flattens the current state into a file on your machine. That file is yours and is unaffected by anything you do afterwards in the editor.

Across devices

Drafts are stored on your account, not in your browser, so a draft started on your desktop opens on your laptop. (Your display name and watermark preference are the exception — those are per-browser.)

Habits worth having

  1. Download the good version when you get one. A file on disk is the only state that cannot be edited further by accident.
  2. Undo before correcting. Always cheaper than layering a fix on a mistake.
  3. Do layer work last. Text layers survive generative edits, but positioning type against artwork you are still changing is wasted effort.
  4. Watch the indicator on a bad connection. It is the only thing that tells you a write did not land.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to save my work?

No. The editor writes your state to your account about a second after you stop making changes — image, text layers, cutouts and undo history.

Does undo cost credits?

No. Undo is free, which is why undoing a bad edit and rethinking the instruction is always cheaper than stacking a corrective edit on top of it.

Can I pick up a draft on another device?

Yes. Drafts are stored on your account, not in your browser. Your display name and watermark preference are the per-browser exceptions.

What does 'Not saved' mean?

A write failed, usually a dropped connection. Do not close the tab — make a small change to trigger another write, and download the current image if it keeps failing.

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