Change Clothes Colors with AI

Can you change a shirt colour online for free?

You can change your first ones on the credits an account starts with, and after that a recolour costs one credit on Standard or three on Pro. Nothing is charged for uploading a photo or for trying the picker. The meter runs when an image is generated, so five colourways of the same shirt cost five.

What separates this from the free recolouring tools is what happens to the shadows. A hue slider moves every pixel of a garment by the same amount, which turns a white shirt into a flat grey-blue rectangle and destroys the folds; here the garment is regenerated in the new colour, so the shadow in a sleeve crease stays darker than the light on the shoulder and the fabric still looks like fabric. That is why a HEX code is honoured as the colour of the cloth rather than as a paint bucket.

Naming the part is the whole skill

One instruction does most of the work: say which garment changes. "The jacket", "the trousers", "the dress", "the left sleeve". The named area is the only area regenerated, and everything else in the photograph is left alone. A description that says "make it green" without naming the piece invites the model to decide what "it" meant.

Two habits make results cleaner. Change one garment at a time when a look has several pieces, because a single instruction covering a jacket and a skirt often lands on the jacket alone. And prefer a HEX code to a colour name when the colour matters commercially: "sage" is a family, `#9CAF88` is a decision, and a brand palette lives in the second form.

Where a recolour struggles

Three cases are genuinely hard, and they are the same three for every tool of this kind.

Prints and patterns are the first: recolouring a striped shirt means deciding which stripe changes, and the model resolves that ambiguity by itself unless the description settles it. Very dark or very light originals are the second: there is little tonal information left in a black garment to carry into a new hue, so black to yellow is a harder ask than beige to yellow, and it may be quicker to generate the piece afresh. And highly reflective materials, patent leather, sequins, metallic thread, carry their colour in their reflections rather than in the surface, so the change reads as tinting.

The pace makes trial the cheapest diagnosis: measured on our own platform in August 2026, an image comes back in about fifteen seconds, so finding out is faster than reasoning about it.