Sphere's AI Image Editing Toolkit: Precision Without a Redo

AI-generated content rarely needs a full do-over. More often it needs one small fix: a background that's slightly off, a headline that doesn't quite land, or a color that clashes with brand guidelines. Regenerating an entire asset to fix one detail wastes the parts that were already working. Sphere by 123RF is built around that reality, with three distinct AI image editing tools to adjust a generated asset without losing the rest of it.

When Almost Right Isn't Good Enough

Campaign assets rarely come out perfect on the first pass, and that's expected. The real test of an AI content tool isn't whether it nails every brief on the first try, it's how easily a team can push a strong draft the rest of the way to campaign-ready. A platform that forces a full regeneration every time something needs tweaking slows teams down and introduces unpredictable changes elsewhere in the asset. Sphere's editing tools are built to isolate changes instead: fix what needs fixing, leave everything else untouched.

Three AI Image Editing Tools to Refine a Generated Asset

Sphere offers three distinct paths for adjusting content after it's generated, each suited to a different kind of change.

Brush-based selection lets you paint over the exact area you want changed, whether that's an object in the background, an expression, or a patch of color, while the rest of the asset stays exactly as it was.

Text-prompt instructions let you describe a change in plain language, such as swapping a headline's tone, adjusting lighting, or changing a background scene, and apply it without re-running the entire brief.

Reference-image upload lets you provide a photo or screenshot that captures the mood, color palette, or style you're after, and Sphere matches the rest of the asset to it.

Used together or separately, these three tools cover most of the small adjustments that come up during review, without requiring a new brief each time.

Why Targeted Edits Protect Brand Consistency

Every regeneration carries some risk of drift: a color that shifts slightly, a layout that reshapes itself, a tone that reads differently than before. For brands running dozens of assets across multiple formats and platforms, that drift adds up fast. Editing a single element instead of regenerating the whole piece keeps the rest of the asset locked to the brand guidelines, colors, and style Sphere already learned during onboarding. It's a smaller, more controlled kind of revision, and it tends to match what a reviewer actually asked for in the first place.

From First Draft to Campaign-Ready

These editing tools sit inside Sphere's Review step, between initial asset generation and publishing. A team can generate a batch of concepts, pick the strongest ones, and then use brush selection, prompts, or reference images to get each one the rest of the way there, before resizing across formats and scheduling to Meta, Pinterest, LinkedIn, TikTok, and the rest. No new brief, no starting over, no detour into a separate design tool, just a direct path from draft to final asset.

The next time a generated asset is close but not quite right, that's a sign to reach for one of these three tools rather than start the brief over.

Images: licensed stock photography via 123RF depicting a photo-retouching workflow and a team review session (image IDs 251275903 and 220968963), used for illustrative purposes.