What does Ideogram Reframe do?

Ideogram Reframe takes an existing image and extends or re-crops it to fit a different aspect ratio. If you have a square image and need a 16:9 landscape version for YouTube, or a 9:16 vertical version for Instagram Reels, Reframe generates the additional image area using outpainting — predicting and filling in what would logically exist outside the original frame while keeping the original image intact at the center. The model preserves the style, lighting, and composition of the original image while extending the canvas in the required direction.

What is outpainting and how does Reframe use it?

Outpainting is the process of generating new image content beyond the edges of an existing image. Reframe uses Ideogram's V3 architecture to analyze the existing image — its style, color palette, lighting direction, subjects, and composition — and generates coherent extensions that look like they belong to the same image. A landscape photo of mountains with sky would be extended by generating more sky and mountain range; an interior scene would be extended with more of the same room environment.

What aspect ratios does Ideogram Reframe support?

Ideogram Reframe supports the major social and production aspect ratios: 1:1 (square), 16:9 (landscape — YouTube, desktop), 9:16 (vertical — Reels, TikTok, Shorts), 4:3 (standard video/photo), 3:4 (portrait), and 4:5 (Instagram feed portrait). This covers the core multi-platform adaptation workflow — generate once, reframe for each delivery format.

Can I add a prompt to guide how the reframe extends the image?

Yes. An optional text prompt guides the content that Reframe generates in the extended areas. For example, if you have a portrait of a person and want to extend it to landscape format, you can prompt 'expand to show the person in a bright studio environment with soft gradient background' to guide what appears in the newly generated areas. Without a prompt, the model infers the most logical continuation from the existing image content.

Does Reframe change the original image, or only add to it?

Reframe only adds to the image — the original content is preserved at its original quality and placement. Only the newly generated extension areas are AI-generated. The original pixels are not modified. This is the key distinction from a standard resize or crop operation, which would distort or lose content.

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Most images are created for one context and then needed in another. A square Instagram post graphic that needs to become a YouTube banner. A landscape product photo that needs to become a vertical Reels clip frame. A portrait that needs to sit in a 16:9 slide presentation.

The standard approaches — cropping (loses content), stretching (distorts), or placing on a solid color background (looks amateurish) — all compromise the image. Ideogram Reframe takes a different approach: it extends the image beyond its existing edges using AI outpainting, generating new content that looks like it belongs in the original composition.

Aspect ratio frames 16:9 9:16 1:1 4:5 for reframing

What Ideogram Reframe Does

Ideogram Reframe is a specialized image-to-image model built on Ideogram's V3 architecture. It takes an input image and a target aspect ratio and produces a new image at that aspect ratio — with the original image preserved intact at its original quality, and new content generated seamlessly in the extended areas.

The model analyzes the input image for:

Visual style and artistic treatment
Color palette and tone
Lighting direction and quality
Subject placement and composition logic
Environmental context

It then generates extension content that matches all of these characteristics. A studio product photo on white background extends with more white space and appropriate shadow behavior. A sunset landscape extends with more sky and horizon. An interior room extends with more of the same room environment.

Supported aspect ratios:

1:1 (square) — Instagram posts, profile images
16:9 (landscape) — YouTube thumbnails, website headers, desktop wallpapers
9:16 (vertical) — Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts
4:3 — standard photo and video format
3:4 — portrait orientation
4:5 — Instagram feed portrait

Where Reframe Is Useful

Multi-Platform Content Adaptation

The most common use case: one hero image generated for one platform, adapted for others without a new generation.

Generate a product hero image at 1:1. Reframe to 16:9 for YouTube. Reframe to 9:16 for Reels. Reframe to 4:5 for Instagram feed. Same image identity, four platform-ready formats from one generation.

This is significantly better than the alternatives. Cropping loses the product or key visual elements. Stretching distorts proportions. Padding with solid color breaks the visual quality. Reframe maintains the image integrity while generating coherent extensions.

Expanding Tight Compositions

Sometimes an image is well composed but too tightly framed for its intended use — a portrait where the subject fills the frame but a YouTube thumbnail needs headroom above, or a product shot that needs more breathing room around the subject for text overlay.

Reframe with an optional prompt guiding what the expanded area should contain:

Expand this portrait to 16:9, adding a clean light grey 
studio background with soft gradient and space above the head 
for text overlay

The model extends the image in the required directions while maintaining the original portrait quality.

Converting Still Photography to Video Frame Formats

Product photography shot in studio formats (often square or 4:3) needs to adapt to 16:9 or 9:16 for video thumbnail use. Reframe converts these without the visible compromise of letterboxing or stretching.

For use as a starting frame in image-to-video generation: generate the reframed image at the target video aspect ratio, then feed into Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1, or Hailuo 02 for image-to-video animation. The video begins from the reframed composition.

Presentation and Document Adaptation

Images generated for one document format — a square social graphic, a portrait presentation slide — that need to fit a different document format. Reframe adapts to standard document proportions without manual editing.

How to Use Reframe on Cliprise

Upload your source image. Any image — a generated Cliprise output, a photo, an illustration. The model accepts JPEG, PNG, and WebP.
Select the target aspect ratio. Choose the format you need the image to become.
Add an optional guidance prompt if you want to direct what appears in the extended areas. Leave blank and the model infers the most logical extension.
Generate. The model produces a new image at the target aspect ratio with the original preserved and extensions added.
Review the extension. Check the seam between original content and extended content. For most images with clear environmental context, the extension is seamless. For images with unusual or complex boundaries — highly detailed patterns, complex hair at the frame edge, transparent objects at the edge — there may be visible artifacts where the original meets the extension.

Prompting for Better Extensions

Without a prompt, Reframe infers from the image. With a prompt, you guide the extended area's content directly.

Effective prompt patterns:

For adding negative space for text:

Extend to 16:9, adding clean empty space on the left side 
matching the existing background style, suitable for text overlay

For environmental extension:

Expand to 9:16 vertical, continue the existing background 
environment naturally downward and upward, same lighting

For studio/commercial extension:

Extend to landscape 16:9, continue the white studio background 
with soft shadows, no additional objects

For atmospheric content:

Expand to 16:9, extend the existing landscape — more sky above 
and more ground below — matching the existing golden hour lighting

Reframe vs Other Adaptation Methods

Method	Quality	Content	Time
Ideogram Reframe	Original preserved, AI extension	Generates new content	Seconds
Crop and resize	Loses content	No new content	Instant
Stretch/distort	Proportions distorted	No new content	Instant
Solid color padding	Original preserved, blank borders	No new content	Instant
Generative fill in Photoshop	Similar to Reframe	Generates new content	Varies

Reframe is the right tool when you need the full image quality preserved and the extended area to look like it belongs. For simple aspect ratio adaptations where blank borders or minimal cropping are acceptable, standard resize tools are faster.

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