--- title: "All Capabilities — IMG.LY" description: "Explore the full range of photo, video, and design editing and automation capabilities available across IMG.LY's SDKs, platforms, and solutions." url: "https://img.ly/capabilities/" type: "page" --- > This is the markdown version of [All Capabilities — IMG.LY](https://img.ly/capabilities/). For all pages in one file, see [llms-full.txt](https://img.ly/llms-full.txt). For an index of all available pages, see [llms.txt](https://img.ly/llms.txt). --- # Capabilities: All Capabilities Explore the full range of editing and automation features available across our SDKs, platforms, and solutions. For the bigger picture, read the deep dives on the [embeddable editor](https://img.ly/capabilities/embeddable-editor.md) and the [white-label editor](https://img.ly/capabilities/white-label-editor.md). ### Video & Audio - **AAC Export** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Export audio in AAC format, delivering high-quality, compressed sound for mobile and web. - **AAC Import** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Import AAC audio files, offering high-quality, compressed audio for projects. - **Adjust Video Clip Timing** (Web, iOS, Android): Fine-tune the timing of video clips for precise synchronization with audio and effects. - **Audio Volume Control** (Web, iOS, Android): Adjust the volume of audio tracks to balance sound levels across your project. - **AV1 Import** (Web): Import AV1 video files for next-generation compression with excellent quality at lower bitrates. - **Cut, Trim, and Split Audio** (Web, iOS, Android): Edit audio clips by cutting, trimming, or splitting to achieve the perfect timing and flow. - **Cut, Trim, and Split Video** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Edit video clips by cutting, trimming, or splitting to achieve the perfect timing and flow. - **Dual Camera** (iOS, Android): Capture footage from two cameras simultaneously, ideal for multi-angle shots. - **Extract Audio from Video API** (Web, iOS, Android): We implemented APIs that users can extract the embedded audio tracks from videos allowing audio editing to be independent of video editing. - **Force-Trim** (iOS, Android): Automatically trim clips to their visible range, so every output stays clean, correctly sized, and ready for the final cut. - **H264 Export** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Export video in H264 format, widely supported and optimized for quality and file size. - **H264 Import** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Import video in H264 format, widely compatible for efficient editing and playback. - **H265/HEVC Import** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Import H265/HEVC files for high-efficiency video with excellent quality at smaller file sizes. - **MOV Container Import** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Import MOV container files, supporting high-quality video for editing. - **MP3 Import** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Import MP3 audio files, compatible with most platforms and devices. - **MP4 Container Export** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Export in MP4 container format, compatible across various platforms and devices. - **MP4 Container Import** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Import MP4 container files, supporting the most widely used video format across platforms and devices. - **Multiple Tracks** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Support multiple audio and video tracks, allowing layered editing for complex projects. - **Reactions** (iOS, Android): Record and add reactions to videos, allowing for real-time responses and commentary. - **Record multiple Clips** (Web, iOS, Android): Capture multiple video or audio clips, enabling dynamic editing and transitions. - **Slow down or Speed up Audio** (Web, iOS, Android): Adjust audio speed to fit timing or create dramatic effects in your projects. - **Slow down or Speed up Video** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Control video playback speed, perfect for creating slow-motion or time-lapse effects. - **Thumbnail Generation** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Generate frame thumbnails and audio waveform previews, giving editors a clear, navigable view of every clip on the timeline. - **Timeline** (Web, iOS, Android): Align all media elements seamlessly to ensure synchronized playback and transitions. - **Timers** (iOS, Android): Set timers for automated actions, aiding in time-based editing or playback control. - **Video Captions** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Add captions to videos to boost accessibility and comprehension, so every viewer can follow along with or without sound. - **Video Recording** (iOS, Android): Let users record video straight from their device camera, capturing footage in the moment and dropping it right onto the timeline. - **Voiceover Recording** (iOS, Android): Record voiceovers directly within the tool, adding narration and commentary with ease. - **VP8 Import** (Web): Import VP8 video files, providing efficient compression suitable for web use. - **VP9 Import** (Web): Import VP9 video files, optimized for high-quality streaming with low data usage. - **WAV Export** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Export audio files in WAV format, ensuring high-quality, uncompressed sound. ### Design - **Add, Insert, and Remove Pages** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Easily add, insert, or remove pages to organize your multi-page projects. - **Adobe Illustrator (AI) Import \*** (Web, Server): Import native Adobe Illustrator (AI) files and pick up editing exactly where your design team left off. - **Adobe InDesign (IDML) Import \*** (Web, Server): Import Adobe InDesign (IDML) files with layouts intact, bringing professional print designs straight into the editor. - **Adobe PhotoShop (PSD) Import \*** (Web, Server): Import Photoshop (PSD) files with layers intact for advanced editing options. - **Alignment and Distribution** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Precisely align and distribute elements for balanced and professional layouts. - **Boolean Operations** (Web, Server): Combine or subtract shapes using boolean operations to create complex designs. - **Groups** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Group elements together to easily move, resize, or modify them as a single unit. - **Multiple Layers** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Organize designs with multiple layers for better control and editing flexibility. - **Multiple Page Sizes** (Web): Mix multiple page sizes in a single document, producing multi-format outputs without duplicating files or rebuilding layouts. - **Opacity and Blending** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Adjust opacity and blending modes to create depth and dynamic effects in your designs. - **PDF Export** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Export designs in PDF format, preserving quality and layout for professional printing. - **PPTX Importer** (Server): Import PowerPoint and Canva-exported PPTX files directly into the editor, turning existing decks into fully editable designs. - **Reorder Pages** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Rearrange the order of pages to improve the flow and structure of your documents. - **SVG Export** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Export designs as SVG: crisp, scalable vector graphics that stay razor-sharp at any size, for web and print alike. - **Undo and Redo** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Easily correct mistakes and explore design changes with unlimited undo and redo. ### AI - **AI Image to Image** (Web): Transform and edit images using AI. Bring your own model. CE.SDK lets you integrate your model of choice. \- \*\*Gemini Flash Edit\*\* Google \- \*\*Seedream V4 Edit\*\* ByteDance \- \*\*NanoBanana Edit\*\* Google \- \*\*NanoBanana Pro Edit\*\* Google \- \*\*GPT Image 1\*\* OpenAI \- \*\*Flux Pro Kontext\*\* Black Forest \- \*\*Flux Pro Kontext Max\*\* Black Forest \- \*\*Ideogram V3 Remix\*\* Ideogram \- \*\*Qwen Image Edit\*\* Alibaba - **AI Image to Video** (Web): Animate images into video clips using AI. Bring your own model. CE.SDK lets you integrate your model of choice. \- \*\*Seedance V1 Pro\*\* ByteDance \- \*\*Minimax Video-01 Live\*\* Minimax \- \*\*Kling Video V2.1 Master\*\* Kuaishou \- \*\*Hailuo 02 Standard\*\* MiniMax \- \*\*Veo 3.1\*\* Google \- \*\*Veo 3.1 First/Last Frame\*\* Google - **AI Sticker Generation** (Web): Generate high-quality stickers from a text prompt or reference image, dropping playful, on-brand graphics into a design in seconds. - **AI Text Generation** (Web): Generate and refine text content using LLMs. Bring your own model. CE.SDK lets you integrate your model of choice. \- \*\*Claude Sonnet 4.5\*\* Anthropic \- \*\*GPT-4.1 Nano\*\* OpenAI - **AI Text to Image** (Web): Generate images from text prompts. Bring your own model. CE.SDK lets you integrate your model of choice. \- \*\*Recraft V3\*\* Recraft \- \*\*Recraft 20B\*\* Recraft \- \*\*Seedream V4\*\* ByteDance \- \*\*NanoBanana\*\* Google \- \*\*NanoBanana Pro\*\* Google \- \*\*GPT Image 1\*\* OpenAI \- \*\*Ideogram V3\*\* Ideogram - **AI Text to Sound Effects** (Web): Generate sound effects from text descriptions. Bring your own model. CE.SDK lets you integrate your model of choice. \- \*\*Sound Effects\*\* ElevenLabs - **AI Text to Speech** (Web): Convert text into natural-sounding speech. Bring your own model. CE.SDK lets you integrate your model of choice. \- \*\*Multilingual V2\*\* ElevenLabs - **AI Text to Video** (Web): Generate video clips from text prompts. Bring your own model. CE.SDK lets you integrate your model of choice. \- \*\*Seedance V1 Pro\*\* ByteDance \- \*\*Minimax Video-01 Live\*\* Minimax \- \*\*Pixverse V3.5\*\* Pixverse \- \*\*Kling Video V2.1 Master\*\* Kuaishou \- \*\*Veo 3\*\* Google \- \*\*Veo 3.1\*\* Google ### Basic - **Background Export** (Web): Keep your workflow uninterrupted with background export, allowing you to continue designing while files are processed and saved in the background. - **Batch Processing** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Save time and increase productivity with batch processing, enabling you to apply edits, adjustments, or exports to multiple files at once for efficient, streamlined workflows. - **Bulletproof Security** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Retain complete control over your design workflow as data never leaves your own infrastructure. - **Canvas Zoom** (Web, iOS, Android): Gain full control over your design details with canvas zoom, allowing you to seamlessly zoom in for precision editing or out for an overview, ensuring accuracy at every level. - **Client-side Processing** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Designed for easy modification, enabling you to adapt and extend the platform to meet evolving project requirements and unique creative workflows. - **CMYK Color** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Define and use CMYK\* colors in your designs. - **Color Gradients** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Enhance your designs with versatile gradient options giving you full creative control to blend colors smoothly and add depth, dimension, and visual appeal. - **Color Palettes** (Web, iOS, Android): Effortlessly elevate your designs with customizable color palettes that provide an instantly cohesive and professional look, enabling you to apply harmonious color schemes across your projects with just a click. - **Consistency and Speed Across Every Platform** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Achieve consistent, high-performance visuals across all devices with a cross-platform renderer, ensuring your designs look and perform identically on every platform for a seamless user experience. - **Document API** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Seamlessly integrate and automate workflows with document APIs, enabling real-time access, manipulation, and management of documents within your applications to boost productivity and collaboration - **Document Colors** (Web, iOS, Android): Easily reuse the same colors throughout your design documents. - **Keyboard Interaction & Shortcuts** (Web, iOS, Android): Boost efficiency and accessibility with keyboard interactions and shortcuts, allowing users to navigate, execute commands, and perform actions quickly and seamlessly without relying on a mouse. - **Mouse Interaction** (Web): Modify elements of your design using sophisticated mouse and touch interactions. - **Out-of-the-Box UI** (Web, iOS, Android): Our pre-build UIs can easily be configured or modified directly as source-level when needed. - **P3 Color Space** (iOS, Android): Achieve richer, more vibrant visuals with P3 color space support, offering a wider color gamut that brings your designs to life with enhanced color accuracy and depth. - **Quick Actions** (Web): Perform common tasks instantly with quick actions, streamlining workflows and saving valuable time in your design process. - **Server-side Processing** (Server): Automate the creation of variations with server-side automation, streamlining large-scale customizations and processing tasks efficiently on the backend. - **Snapping Guides** (Web, iOS, Android): Ensure flawless alignment with snapping guides, which automatically position elements as you design, making it easy to create clean, professional layouts with perfect precision. - **Source Sets** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Optimize image quality and loading speed with source sets, allowing you to deliver the best resolution for any device by automatically selecting the most appropriate image size for each display. - **Spot Colors** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Achieve precise brand consistency with spot colors, allowing you to apply exact color matches for print and digital media, ensuring that your designs maintain their intended look and quality across every medium. - **sRGB Color Space** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Ensure vibrant, true-to-life colors with sRGB compatibility, delivering accurate color representation across all digital devices, so your designs look consistent and stunning wherever they’re viewed. - **Touch Interaction** (Web, iOS, Android): Enable seamless user experiences on mobile and tablet devices with touch interaction support, allowing for intuitive gestures, taps, and swipes that bring your designs to life. - **WCAG AA Conformant** (Web): Ensure accessibility with WCAG AA conformance, providing inclusive design that meets industry standards for readability, color contrast, and usability for all users. ### Ecosystem - **Background Removal** (Web): Remove Background from any Image - **Cutouts** (Web): Create cutouts to isolate specific elements or prepare designs for die-cut printing. - **HTML5 Exporter** (Web): Export designs as interactive HTML5: animations, banners, and rich presentations that deploy straight to the web with motion and fidelity intact. - **Knockouts** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Apply knockouts to manage overlapping colors or layers in complex print designs. - **PDF/X Plugin** (Web, Server): Export print-ready PDFs that comply with industry-standard PDF/X specifications, slotting cleanly into professional printing workflows. - **QR Code Plugin** (Web): Generate customisable QR codes - **Underlayers** (Web): Add underlayers to provide base designs or colors for layered compositions. - **Vectorizer Plugin** (Web): Transform your pixel based images into scalable vector images ### Validation - **Bleed & Margins** (Web): Define bleed and margin settings to ensure accurate printing, preventing cutoff and maintaining professional layout standards. ### Image & Photo - **Blur Effects** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Apply smooth, adjustable blur to images and elements to soften backgrounds, draw focus, or set a mood. - **Camera Zoom** (iOS, Android): Get closer to the action with camera zoom, providing precise control to focus in on details or pull back for a broader view, perfect for immersive and flexible visual experiences. - **Chroma Keying and Greenscreen Effect** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Unlock creative possibilities with chroma keying and greenscreen effects, allowing you to seamlessly replace backgrounds and integrate subjects into any environment for polished, professional visuals. - **Color Balance** (Web, Server): Achieve perfect harmony in your visuals with color balance, adjusting the tones to create natural, vibrant, or mood-specific effects that elevate your design’s impact. - **Crop Presets** (Web, iOS, Android): Maintain consistent framing with Crop Presets, seamlessly resizing and centering images to meet predefined aspect ratios for professional, on-brand visuals, with no manual adjustments required. - **Crop, Rotate, Straighten, and Flip** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Achieve precise composition and alignment with tools for crop, rotate, straighten, and flip, giving you full control to tailor images exactly to your design needs. - **DuoTone Effects** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Add a modern, artistic touch to your visuals with Duotone effects, blending two colors to create striking contrast, depth, and mood in your designs. - **Exposure Adjustments** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Fine-tune brightness and detail with exposure adjustments, giving you control to lighten or darken images for the perfect visual balance and impact. - **Fit & Crop Modes** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Easily tailor your images with Fit and Crop options, allowing precise control over framing to highlight essential content and achieve the perfect composition in any layout. - **Fixed Aspect & Resolution Crop** (Web, iOS, Android): Crop images to fixed aspect ratios and resolutions for consistent sizing and framing. - **Force-Crop** (Web, iOS, Android): Maintain consistent framing with Force Crop, ensuring images are automatically resized and centered to fit specific dimensions without manual adjustments. - **GIF Import** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Easily import GIFs to incorporate animated elements into your projects, adding motion and visual interest to your designs. - **JPEG Export** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Export images in JPEG format, optimizing for web with good quality and small file sizes. - **JPEG Import** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Import JPEG images, offering a widely compatible format with good quality and compression. - **Lottie Support** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): By adding support for Lottie files, the editor can import and manipulate vector-based animations described in JSON, rather than just rasterized GIFs. Lottie support brings customers modern, high-quality animation capabilities that go far beyond simple GIFs. This empowers them to create smoother, scalable, and more interactive designs. - **LUT Filters** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Instantly enhance your images with LUT filters, applying professional-grade color grading for consistent, stylized, and visually impactful results across your designs. - **Photo Capturing** (iOS, Android): Let users capture photos straight from their device camera and bring fresh shots into a design without leaving the editor. - **PNG Export** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Export images in PNG format, ensuring high-quality visuals with transparency support. - **PNG Import** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Import images in PNG format, retaining transparency and high-quality details. - **Recolor** (Web, iOS, Android): Pick any color in a design and swap it for another, giving you full control to adapt palettes and match brand schemes in a click. - **Resize and Scale** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Easily adjust your visuals with resizing and scale tools, allowing you to customize image dimensions and proportions while maintaining quality and design consistency. - **Sharpness & Clarity** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Enhance image detail with sharpness and clarity controls, allowing you to bring out textures, edges, and fine details for crisp, high-quality visuals. - **WEBP Export** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Boost web performance with WebP export, delivering high-quality images in a compact format for faster loading times and efficient bandwidth usage on digital platforms. - **WebP Import** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Import WebP images, providing high-quality visuals in a smaller file size for web efficiency. ### Handover - **Brand Kits** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Maintain brand consistency with kits that include fonts, colors, and logos. - **Consistent Design** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Ensure cohesive designs with built-in tools for consistency across all elements. - **Lockable Design** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Lock design elements to prevent unintended edits and maintain layout integrity. - **Locked Templates** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Use locked templates to prevent unintentional changes and maintain design integrity. - **Placeholders** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Insert dynamic placeholders for images, text, or other content, enabling flexible templates and quick content replacement during design. ### Customization & Extensibility - **Bring your own third party AI Tools** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Plug in your own AI providers and models so the editor’s intelligence grows with the tools you choose, with no vendor lock-in. - **Custom Panels** (Web): Build custom panels that put your own tools, settings, and resources exactly where users need them, shaping the workspace around your workflow. - **Custom Toolbars** (Web, iOS, Android): Enhance your workflow with custom toolbars, giving you the flexibility to organize tools and features to suit your unique design process, maximizing efficiency and ease of access. - **Internationalization (i18n)** (Web, iOS, Android): Available in multiple languages, with options to add additional i18n translations. ### Assets - **Custom Asset Libraries** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Build custom asset libraries for easy access to your frequently used resources. - **Custom Templates** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Create and save custom templates for consistent branding and reusable layouts. - **Dynamic Asset Sources** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Integrate dynamic asset sources for automatically updated content and resources. - **Gallery as an Asset Source** (iOS, Android): By integrating the mobile gallery as a native asset source, you’re eliminating the need for disruptive system pickers and making personal media a first-class part of the editor. Users have instant access to their own photos and videos, making creation faster and more personal. - **Out of the Box Asset Libraries** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Access prebuilt asset libraries to quickly enhance your designs. ### Vector - **Custom Vector Shapes** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Create and use custom vector shapes beyond the basic shape library for unique design elements. - **Glow** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Add shadow effects to objects, creating depth and visual impact. - **Shadows** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Add depth with adjustable drop shadows, lifting elements off the canvas for a polished, dimensional look. - **Stroke Colors and Styles** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Customize stroke colors and patterns, adding style and emphasis to shapes and lines. - **Vector Shapes** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Access a library of basic shapes for quick and versatile design elements. ### Text & Typography - **Font Weights and Families** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Choose from a variety of font weights and families to achieve the perfect tone and emphasis in your designs. - **Line Height and Character Spacing** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Control kerning, leading, and tracking to fine-tune text spacing for optimal readability and style. - **OpenType (OTF) Import** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Import OpenType fonts (OTF) to expand creative typography options with advanced typographic features. - **Paragraph Spacing** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Adjust paragraph spacing and indentation to enhance readability and visual structure. - **Text Animations** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Animate text with entrance, emphasis, and exit effects to bring typography to life in video and design projects. - **Text Auto Scale** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Automatically scale text to fit within designated areas, ensuring consistent layouts. - **Text Background** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): To enhance visibility and readability of Text fields, you can set a text background for text blocks. - **Text Decorations** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Underline or strike through text in a click, adding emphasis and editorial polish to any layout. - **Text Inline Editing** (Web, iOS, Android): Edit text directly on the canvas for a seamless and intuitive text editing experience. - **Text Runs** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Apply formatting across continuous text runs, allowing flexible styling within single text blocks. - **Text Transformations** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Easily apply text transformations like uppercase, lowercase, and capitalization for stylistic effects. - **Text Variables** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Use text variables to dynamically insert content, making updates quick and consistent. - **TrueType (TTF) Import** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Import TrueType fonts (TTF) for broad typographic flexibility across platforms. - **Variable Fonts Support** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Use OpenType variable fonts to reach an entire family, every weight and width, from one lightweight file, with smooth control over each axis. - **Web Open Font Format (WOFF/WOFF2) Import** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Import Web Open Font Format (WOFF) files for web-compatible typography options. ### Animation - **Graphics Animations** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Bring your designs to life with graphics animations, adding dynamic, eye-catching motion that enhances engagement and storytelling, all through customizable, easy-to-apply animation effects ### Collaboration - **Version Control and Snapshots** (Web, iOS, Android, Server): Track changes with version control and save snapshots to preserve progress. --- ## More Resources - **[IMG.LY Website](https://img.ly/index.md)** - Creative editing SDKs for photo, video, and design - **[Documentation](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/)** - CE.SDK developer documentation - **[Contact Sales](https://img.ly/forms/contact-sales.md)** - Get a custom quote. 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