When to reach for AI, and exactly how credits work.
Most art doesn’t need it — B/W, Color, Layers, Depth, and Dither are all free and local. Use AI when a photo is too messy for a clean trace: AI redraws your exact image into clean, traceable art (B/W or a few flat colors) while keeping the composition. You can also generate an image from a text prompt.
Generating on a new image = 1 credit. Not happy? Regenerating the same image — different style, dials, or a tweak — is just 0.2 credit each. So you iterate cheaply and only pay full price once per image. A different image is a fresh 1-credit generation.
Every account gets 3 free AI previews (watermarked) so you can try it. Add credits to remove the watermark and get clean, vector-ready output.
Pro includes 40 credits/month. Or buy one-time credit packs (20/$8, 50/$18, 120/$36) with no subscription — they don’t expire while your account is active.
The AI result is traced locally into vectors (free), or you can keep it as a clean PNG. Then export like any other mode.