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Recolor Image with AI

Upload a picture and name the new colour — “recolor the sofa emerald green” or “recolor the poster to navy and silver”. Shapes, texture and light stay; only the colour changes.

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  • Qwen Image 3.0 edit
  • The same living room with the mustard velvet sofa recoloured emerald green
  • The same living room with a blush pink sofa and sage green walls
  • A grey hoodie product photo recoloured navy blue, same folds and background
  • A grey hoodie product photo recoloured forest green, same folds and background
  • One object or the whole image
  • Keeps shape and texture
  • Palette or HEX colours
  • No watermark

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Quick answer

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How do you recolor an image with AI?

To recolor an image with AI, upload it, name what to change and the new colour, and add “keep everything else the same”. Kenerate AI's Edit Studio has two tools for it: Color Palette recolours the whole picture and Change Region recolours only an area you paint. In our tests Qwen Image 3.0 kept every shape and texture across six recolours.

Key facts

Recolours tested
6
Shapes and texture kept
All 6, in our tests
Whole image
Color Palette tool
One area
Change Region tool
HEX colours
Close, not exact
Free start
Starter credits
Watermark
None

Same prompt

One hoodie, three colourways

The original heather grey, then two recolours from one-sentence prompts. The folds, drawstrings and background didn't move.

PromptRecolor the hoodie to navy blue. Keep the fabric texture, folds, drawstrings, shape, white background and lighting exactly the same.

  • Original: Recolor the hoodie to navy blue. Keep the fabric texture, folds, drawstrings, shape, white background and lighting exactly the same.OriginalHeather grey
  • Navy blue: Recolor the hoodie to navy blue. Keep the fabric texture, folds, drawstrings, shape, white background and lighting exactly the same.Navy blueQwen Image 3.0 edit
  • Forest green: Recolor the hoodie to navy blue. Keep the fabric texture, folds, drawstrings, shape, white background and lighting exactly the same.Forest greenQwen Image 3.0 edit

How to

How to use the recolor image

Time needed
Steps
4 steps
  1. Step 1

    Upload your image

    Add it in Image Studio with Qwen Image 3.0, or open Edit Studio (/app/edit). Sign in free for starter credits.

  2. Step 2

    Pick the tool

    In Edit Studio: Color Palette recolours the whole picture; Change Region lets you paint over one object first.

  3. Step 3

    Name the colour

    “Recolor the hoodie navy blue. Keep the texture, folds and background the same.”

  4. Step 4

    Compare and download

    Try a few colours side by side, then download without a watermark.

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Chapters

Tips

Get a clean recolour

What worked in our tests.

  • Name the object: “recolor the sofa”, not “make it green”.

  • Add “keep everything else exactly the same” and list what matters — walls, floor, background.

  • Keep the material word: “emerald green velvet”, “navy cotton” — the texture stays truer.

  • For a whole palette, give two or three colours and say which part gets which.

  • HEX codes land close, not exact — finish with a pixel colour-replace if a brand colour must match.

  • Recolour one thing per prompt; chain edits for the rest.

Models

Models for recolouring

What each model is good at. Open any one straight in the generator.

  • Qwen Image 3.0 title card — neatly written on a café blackboard menu board in a sunlit café
    Free plan

    Alibaba

    Qwen Image 3.0

    Reference images
    Up to 3
    Output
    1K · 2K

    Best for

    Used here; free plan; Color Palette default

    Open Qwen Image 3.0
  • Seedream 5.0 Pro title card — a gallery-worthy photoreal portrait of a fictional adult woman with freckles in golden-hour light

    ByteDance

    Seedream 5.0 Pro

    Reference images
    Up to 10
    Output
    Up to 2K

    Best for

    Change Region default

    Open Seedream 5.0 Pro
  • Google

    Nano Banana 2.1

    Reference images
    Up to 14
    Output
    Up to 4K

    Best for

    Also in Color Palette

    Open Nano Banana 2.1
  • GPT Image 2 title card — elegant gold-foil lettering pressed into thick black letterpress card

    OpenAI

    GPT Image 2

    Reference images
    Up to 16
    Output
    Model default

    Best for

    Also in Color Palette

    Open GPT Image 2

FAQ

Recolor Image questions

How do I recolor an image with AI?

Upload the image to Kenerate's Edit Studio, pick Color Palette (whole picture) or Change Region (one painted area), and write what to change: “recolor the sofa emerald green, keep everything else exactly the same”. Qwen Image 3.0 did this in our six tests without moving any shapes. Download the result with no watermark.

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Can I change the colour of just one object?

Yes. Name the object in the prompt — “recolor only the sofa” — and list what must stay. In our living-room test the sofa turned emerald while the walls, floor, table and plant stayed the same. If the picture has several similar objects, use Change Region and paint over the one you want, so the edit can't spill onto the others.

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Can I recolor an image to exact HEX colours?

Close, but not pixel-exact. We asked for #1E3A8A, #F59E0B and #FEF3C7 on a flat poster and measured #253B78, #D87E0D and #FEEECA in the result — the right hues, slightly off in value. For a brand colour that must match exactly, recolour with AI first, then fine-tune with a pixel colour-replace tool.

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Is recoloring an image free?

Free to start. A new Kenerate account gets starter credits on sign-up, and Qwen Image 3.0 — the model used on this page — is a free-plan model, so the starter credits cover a couple of recolours. After that, edits run on one-time credit packs that never expire — no subscription. Downloads carry no watermark.

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Will recolouring change the texture or shape?

Not in our tests: velvet stayed velvet, the hoodie kept its folds and drawstrings, and every hill and tree in the poster stayed put. Keeping the material in the prompt helps — “emerald green velvet” rather than just “green” — as does ending with “keep everything else exactly the same”.

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Can I make product colourways from one photo?

Yes — the hoodie on this page went from heather grey to navy and forest green from one product photo. It's useful for mock-ups, ads and pre-orders. For a shop listing, check each recolour against the real product or a fabric swatch, because the shade on screen should match what the buyer receives.

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How is recolouring different from colorizing?

Recolouring changes colours that are already there — a mustard sofa to emerald. Colorizing adds colour to a black-and-white photo. For old black-and-white photos, use Kenerate's colorize photo tool instead.

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Can I recolor a logo or a PNG?

For a photo or an illustration, yes. For a flat logo where every pixel must be one exact brand colour, a pixel-level colour-replace tool is the safer choice — AI recolouring lands close to a HEX code, not exactly on it, as our HEX test above shows.

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In depth

Recolor Image, explained

What works, what to avoid, and how to pick a model.

Two ways to recolor: the whole palette or one object

Color Palette sends the whole image and your colour instruction to the model, which repaints the colours while keeping the layout — right for posters, illustrations and mood changes. Change Region lets you paint over one area first, so only that part changes — right when several objects look alike.

Both run on instruction-based image editors that repaint what you name. Saying what must stay the same is as important as naming the new colour.

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We build and run the Kenerate generator. Every example is a real output of the model named under it; models and presets were checked against the app's code.

Sources: Kenerate Edit Studio

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