Using AI

Through Toon Boom Ember, you have access to a suite of AI-powered tools to enhance your workflow. By opting into Ember, you will be able to utilize the AI tools to automate time consuming and repetitive tasks and enhance visual quality of lower resolution images. Toon Boom has collaborated with AI providers to facilitate the integration of AI into your creative pipeline.

IMPORTANT These service providers will not collect or store your data nor will they use your projects to train AI.

By default the AI features are disabled. In order to be enabled, you will need a license for both Harmony and Ember as well as to enable the AI features in the Preferences dialog.

TIP The Enable Ember Functionalities option is located in the Advanced tab of the Preferences dialog.

After enabling Ember, you will be required to relaunch the software in order to access the AI tools.

AI Masking

AI Masking allows you to isolate individual elements in an imported image. Once isolated, these elements can be removed and substituted by the AI.

Depending on the sharpness, level of contrast and resolution of the image, the AI can distinguish specific details. The sharper the image and the higher the resolution, the more accurate the AI will be when processing your image.

You can use the following AI Masking tools to apply an AI Mask:

AI Mask Selector.
AI Mask Brush.
AI Mask Eraser.

You can use both the AI Mask Selector and AI Mask Brush to mask your image. The AI Mask Selector will select shapes and objects detected by the AI once an AI Mask has been generated. Meanwhile the AI Mask Brush is a pressure sensitive brush that applies an AI Mask by drawing strokes over your image.

Once your AI masks are applied, you can use the AI Erase and Replace operation to remove any elements that are masked and reconstruct the image by replacing the masked elements with whatever the AI processor believes would exist in its place.

TIP You can compare the processed image to the original in the AI Erase and Replace dialog by either pressing Alt or clicking the Show

Original Image icon.

IMPORTANT The new generated with the AI Erase and Replace operation will be labelled with a “g” for generated. This will indicate that your image has been generated through AI.

Expand Image

The Expand Image operation allows you to enlarge your bitmap images without sacrificing image resolution. Any images that need to be scaled up will be processed with AI to generate an extension to the existing image. The AI operation can also be used to expand an image to fit the boundary of a static or dynamic camera.

You can expand your image the following ways:

By Percentage: Scale up your image using a percentage value. When the percentage option is checked, the AI will expand your image based on a percentage of the total resolution of the selected image.
Based on the Area Covered by the Camera: Scale up your image using the Based on the Area Covered by the Camera option. This option will expand your image to fit within the camera’s view and apply padding to ensure your image is action safe.

How to use Expand Image

Select your image.
Select Drawing from the top of the interface.
Open the AI Operations dropdown menu.
Select Expand Image.

The Expand Image dialog will appear.
Select one of the following checkboxes:
1. By Percentage.
2. Based on the Area Covered by the Camera.
Input the percentage values in the X and Y-axes.
Click OK.

The Expand Image window will appear.
Review the processed expanded image.
Click OK.

IMPORTANT The new generated with the Expand Image operation will be labelled with a “g” for generated. This will indicate that your image has been generated through AI.

Increase Image Resolution

You can increase the resolution of bitmap images on both bitmap and vector layers. However, when an image on a vector layer is processed using this AI operation, the generated image will be a soft rendered texture on a vector layer.

IMPORTANT A new will be generated for the image with increased resolution. It will be labelled with a “g” for generated. This will indicate that your image has been generated through AI.

Increase Image Texture Resolution

The Increase Image Texture Resolution operation will increase the resolution of your textures on vector layers. This operation works exclusively on vector layers that have been imported as a texture. The Increase Image Texture Resolution dialog will give you the option to scale your image texture resolution up by a scale factor of 2 or 4.

Increase Texture Resolution

The AI Increase Texture Resolution operation will enhance the resolution of brush and pencil textures. By increasing the resolution, the AI will add pixels to your brush and pencil textures making them appear smoother by softening harsh edges. The AI Increase Texture Resolution dialog will give you the option to scale your texture resolution up by a scale factor of 2 or 4.

The AI Increase Texture Resolution will work with both Harmony default textures as well as any textures that are imported. If you import an image as a brush or pencil texture, the AI Increase Texture Resolution will scale up the resolution like the Increase Image Texture Resolution operation.