How to Turn AI Images into Editable Figma Layers

The problem with AI generated images

AI tools like Nano Banana, Midjourney, GPT Image, and DALL·E make beautiful product visuals, lifestyle shots, infographics, and ads in seconds. But the output is flat — pixels, not layers. You can’t change a word, swap a product, or recolor an element. The next round of edits means re-prompting until you get lucky.

If you live in Figma, that’s a real problem. Figma is built around editable layers. A flat PNG is an island.

The fix: AI image → layered design

Pixii generates the AI image, then a second step — Convert to Layers — decomposes that image into a clean editable design. Text becomes real text. The product becomes its own object. Shadows, lighting, and brand colors stay tied to the right elements. Download as SVG, drag into Figma, and every layer is editable.

The key idea: the AI tool that generated the image is the same one decomposing it. That’s how the layer structure ends up clean.

How to turn an AI design into Figma layers (5 steps)

1. Open your design in Pixii and finish your edits with the regular tools.
2. Use Spot Edit for last-minute changes (“put an apple here, before the bowl”). Pixii preserves shadows, lighting, and brand colors automatically.
3. Click “Convert to layers.” Pixii generates a new page containing the layered version of your design.
4. Move the layered page to the top, hit save, and click Download as SVG.
5. Drag the SVG into Figma. Open the layers panel — full control over every element.

That’s the whole flow. The 1-minute walkthrough above runs through it visually.

Why not just use Figma Vectorize or a plugin?

Figma’s built-in Vectorize and plugins like img2figma, image.to.design, Layerize, and screen.to.design all start from a finished image and try to guess what’s inside it. They’re great for screenshots and UI mockups — but for designed visuals (product listings, lifestyle photos, infographics, A+ content), the guesses are lossy. Typography flattens into paths, the product silhouette gets traced as random shapes, shadows turn into stray fragments.

Pixii has an unfair advantage in this same category: it generated the image, so it already knows what’s text, what the product is, what the brand colors are, where the shadows belong. Convert to Layers uses that context to produce a clean editable SVG instead of guessing pixel-by-pixel. Same job — better output.

Watch the walkthrough

The video above is a 1-minute screen recording of the full workflow — design tweak → Convert to Layers → SVG download → Figma drag-and-drop → editing in the layers panel.

Full transcript

How to export AI designs to Figma as a layered file. First let’s pop open something that we want to bring into Figma. This one. Make any edits that you want. I’ll use Spot Edit and I’ll say put an apple here. Before or after? Before. After. Pixii even nailed the shadow.

Once this design is to my liking, this is important. I’ll hit convert to layers. Pixii added a page that has the layer design file. So maybe you can just get to where you want in Pixii. That would obviously be easier. I’ll just keep it as it is.

And then, after I’ve converted to layers, I’m going to make this layered file that I want to download as the first page. So I’ll click Move up, make sure it’s the top page, hit save and then let’s download as svg. Great.

Let’s go over to Figma and drag and drop. In this segment, go to the layers. And now you have full control. Write anything, do anything. Just like that. All right, have fun.