Poster to layers is a LayerGrab tool that turns a finished poster back into editable layers: every headline, badge and graphic as a separate piece, over a cleaned-up background.
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Leave empty to split every element.
Sample split, free to explore: Coffee shop poster
11 layers
Split in 100s
Background (filled)Poster layer separator
Poster to layers is the LayerGrab workflow for turning a flat poster, flyer or social graphic back into an editable stack: each headline, badge, product shot and decoration on its own transparent layer, over the poster background with those elements painted out.
It works on posters you did not make, and on your own when the source file is gone. Compared with a general image splitter, the difference is what you do next: swap the copy, the offer or the format while everything else stays put.
Hide the headline layer, and the background under it is already clean. Set the new language in your own font without cloning or patching.
Swap "20% OFF" for next week's deal by replacing one badge layer. The rest of the poster stays pixel-for-pixel the same.
Move the product, text and decorations independently to rebuild a story, banner or square post from one poster.
Take one illustration or product shot out as a transparent PNG for another design.
11 layers
Bottom event info textWhipped cream topping with cinnamon dustPumpkin spice latte drink baseWhite coffee cup with pumpkin logoOrange maple leaf (bottom right)Orange maple leaf (top right)Background (filled)1
The flat file you have: an exported JPG or PNG, a screenshot of a social post, or a photo of a printed flyer taken straight on.
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Leave "What to separate" empty to get every element, or name just the parts you will change, such as "the headline and the badge". It takes 60–100 seconds.
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Toggle the pieces in the preview to check that the background underneath is clean.
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Download a layered PSD for Photoshop, individual PNGs, or copy layers straight into Figma or Canva.
Designed posters are the best case: type, badges, product shots and illustrations sit on the background as distinct shapes, so each becomes a clean layer.
For the whole stack as one Photoshop file, see image to PSD. To lift a single element, pull out just that object.
If you can get the original design file, use it: the layers there keep live text, fonts and effects. Posters where type is set over a detailed photo, such as a face, separate less cleanly than type on a plain or graphic background.
Drop shadows and glows cast onto the background stay in the background layer instead of moving with the element.
You can move, resize, recolour or hide the text, because it is a layer of its own. It is a picture of the text, not live type, so to change the words you hide that layer and type new text in its place; the background underneath is already filled in.
Busy posters give the most. The coffee-shop poster on this page came back as 11 layers: the headline, the badge, four maple leaves, the cup, the drink, the whipped cream, the event details line and the filled background.
Yes, if the photo is taken straight on and in focus. Perspective, glare and paper texture end up in the layers, so a flat digital export always gives cleaner results.
No. The layers are a new separation made by AI from the pixels, so fonts, effects and adjustment layers from the designer's file are not recovered. If you can get the original file, use that.
Last updated 2026-09-29