Tutorials · 4 min read

Outpainting for wide formats

Reframing a square or portrait image into a wide banner without distortion.

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From square to widescreen

Wide banners rarely match the aspect ratio you generated in. Outpainting extends the scene sideways, inventing coherent context instead of stretching pixels.

This tutorial walks through extending an image to a 16:9 or banner format while keeping the original subject untouched and the new regions believable.