tessera
For architecture studios

Change the finish, not the form.

Select the sky, the entourage, a facade panel or the cars in the way, describe the change, and only that area goes to the model. The rest of your render stays exactly as it left the renderer.

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competition_board_ext_04.png PNG · sRGB3200 × 2400
A competition render of a library open in the Tessera editor with the sky selected.
Replace the sky, late afternoon· 2cr
Variants 3/5
#1 Golden
#2 Dusk
#3 Soft
+ 2 more
Active patch [3200 × 860]Feather: 8px Hold [Space] to compare with the source

What it fixes

A whole-image generator redraws the picture. Lines move, materials shift and the frame you composed comes back a little different. Tessera sends the area you selected and nothing else, so every pixel outside it is your source.

Same brief, same prompt: "Replace the sky, late afternoon" Orange is what reaches the model. Hatched is held back.
A · Whole-image generation
The picture redrawn by a whole-image model. Ask for the same scene with a late afternoon sky and the building, the square and the cars all come back different.
Every pixel is redrawn
A different buildingTrees movedCars movedSquare redrawn
B · A Tessera patch
The same picture with only the sky replaced, everything outside the selection untouched.
Only this is sent
Untouched
Whole-image generation

The model draws the whole frame from the prompt, and nothing in the frame is yours. Ask for the same scene with a late afternoon sky and the building, the square and the cars all come back different.

A Tessera patch

Only the selection leaves your browser, plus a margin of context. It comes back as a feathered patch over the source, and every pixel outside it is untouched.

SKY

The sky is wrong

A grey sky on a competition board is a re-render away, or one selection and one sentence here.

ONE_SELECTION
ENTOURAGE

Entourage at the wrong scale

Add people that fit the building instead of cut-outs from a library. Two or three, walking, with real shadows.

MATCHED_LIGHT
MATERIAL

The client changed the cladding

Swap the material on one elevation while every window and joint line stays where the model put it.

GEOMETRY_HELD
MONTAGE

The render meets the site photo

Select the seam and the model matches light, grain and colour across it, with every edge of the building held.

EDGES_HELD

How it works

The picture with a selection drawn around the sky.
3200 × 860
1

Select

Drag a rectangle, draw a lasso or click a polygon around the part to change. Add a reference area if the prompt should say "like #2".

Selection3 tools
Patch 2 · SkyDraft · 1cr
Replace the sky, late afternoon
Replace the skyAdd people at scaleMature treesFacade material
DraftStandard Generate
2

Describe

Type the edit or pick a preset. Try it as a draft for one credit, then run the keeper at full quality.

PromptDraft · 1cr
The picture with the patch feathered over the source.
Feather8 px
Opacity100%
3

Blend

The result is pasted back with a feathered edge and adjustable opacity. Flip between variants, or hold Space to compare with the source.

Feather8px
competition_board_ext_04.psd3 layers
Patch 2 · Skygolden
Patch 1 · Entourage8 px
Sourcelocked
PNGPSDUpscale Export
4

Export

A flat PNG, a layered PSD with one layer per patch, or the whole picture enhanced and upscaled.

PhotoshopLayered PSD

Presets for the work you do

Measure one door and every prompt knows how many metres it covers, so people and trees come out at true size.

Click a preset to see it run on a real picture

Drag to compare · one selection, one sentence, 2cr
The picture after the preset ran. The picture before the preset ran, with the selection drawn on it.
Source Patch
ID PASS

Select from your render passes

Drop the material ID pass beside the render and click the facade. The patch is exactly those pixels, windows left out, and no lasso was drawn.

MATERIALS

Your sample board, as references

Keep the brick, the timber and the stone as materials. A preset brings the swatch along, the prompt says "the brick in #2", and each combination is a scheme you export side by side.

PLANNING

Protected areas and an edit log

Lock the windows, joints and structure so no patch touches them, then export the picture with a log of every changed area and the hash of the file.

Pay as you go

No subscription. Start with 25 free credits, then buy a pack and spend it at your own pace. Credits are pooled across a team and last a year. A standard edit is two credits, a draft one. See pricing for the detail.

Small

Try it properly
$12 once
  • 100 credits, 12¢ each
  • 100 edits
  • A year to spend them
  • Clean exports, layered PSD
  • 100 GB of pictures
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Large

A studio season
$120 once
  • 1,500 credits, 8¢ each
  • 1,500 edits
  • A year to spend them
  • Clean exports, layered PSD
  • 100 GB of pictures
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Studio

The whole team
$350 once
  • 5,000 credits, 7¢ each
  • 5,000 edits
  • A year to spend them
  • Clean exports, layered PSD
  • 100 GB of pictures
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