AI design platform

How to use
Recraft.

Creating art-directed brand visuals, illustrations, icons, scalable vector assets, mockups, and controlled image variations inside a design-oriented workflow.

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What it isAI design platform for raster images, vector graphics, icons, mockups, editing, and production exports Workflows2 UpdatedJuly 2026

Recraft is a AI design platform for raster images, vector graphics, icons, mockups, editing, and production exports. Creating art-directed brand visuals, illustrations, icons, scalable vector assets, mockups, and controlled image variations inside a design-oriented workflow. This guide covers the whole path in one place: official access, a first session that produces something reviewable, the checks that make output trustworthy, and the permissions worth limiting before you connect real work.

Troiana principle

AI should make the work easier to inspect. If the workflow removes the source, the owner, or the review step, redesign the workflow.

01

Access & setup

Find, install, and sign in to Recraft

Get into the official Recraft experience with the right account and a setup you understand.

  1. 01

    Start at https://www.recraft.ai/ and confirm the domain before entering account or payment information.

  2. 02

    Availability: Recraft is available in web and mobile applications and through an API, with raster and vector generation, brand styles, editing, upscaling, mockups, typography controls, and production export formats.

  3. 03

    A Recraft account and suitable plan, rights to every uploaded or referenced asset, and a deliberate choice of model, privacy, ownership, commercial license, output format, and credit budget.

  4. 04

    Sign in with the account you intend to keep using, then review plan, data, notification, and permission settings.

  5. 05

    Run one low-risk test task before connecting sensitive files, repositories, or workspace data.

  • Use official download pages.
  • Review permissions during setup.
  • Keep installers and applications updated.
02

First session

Your first useful Recraft session

Learn the interaction loop using a small task with a clear outcome.

  1. 01

    Define the asset's use, dimensions, message, palette, brand rules, rights, accessibility needs, and required raster or vector format.

  2. 02

    Choose the model and plan deliberately because style support, privacy, ownership, and commercial rights differ.

  3. 03

    Generate a few compositionally distinct directions, then refine one approved direction with controlled edits and colors.

  4. 04

    Inspect text, paths, edges, anatomy, logos, likenesses, and export settings before completing layout and approval in the production design workflow.

  • State the outcome before the background.
  • Provide the real source material.
  • Review the result before expanding the task.
03

Quality control

Check the quality of Recraft output

Turn a promising generation into an asset you can legally and safely ship.

  1. 01

    Restate the brief, the deliverable format, and where the asset will appear before judging any output.

  2. 02

    Inspect at full resolution: generated media hides its errors at thumbnail size.

  3. 03

    Check the details these systems reliably get wrong — hands, text, logos, reflections, symmetry, and edge artefacts.

  4. 04

    Confirm the licence and commercial-use terms for your plan, and check the output does not reproduce a recognisable style, mark, or likeness you have no right to use.

  5. 05

    Review for accessibility and delivery: alt text, contrast, colour profile, file size, and the exact export format.

  • Inspect at full resolution before approving anything.
  • Confirm commercial-use rights before an asset reaches a client.
  • Keep the prompt and settings with the asset so it can be reproduced.
04

Privacy & permissions

Use Recraft safely

Use the platform without surrendering rights, likenesses, or client material you do not control.

  1. 01

    Confirm you hold the rights to every reference image, voice, or clip before uploading it.

  2. 02

    Check whether your plan trains on submitted content, and opt out before uploading client work.

  3. 03

    Never upload a real person's likeness or voice without their explicit, documented consent.

  4. 04

    Review the output for marks, styles, or likenesses you have no licence to reproduce.

  5. 05

    Label synthetic media where your client, platform, or jurisdiction requires disclosure.

  • Free-plan generations are public, owned by Recraft, and not licensed for commercial use, while paid-plan assets have different ownership and privacy terms. Do not upload confidential or third-party material without authority, assume generated marks are trademark-clear, or use assets to train another AI system contrary to Recraft's terms. Validate rights, text, vector paths, print color, accessibility, and production dimensions manually.
  • Follow your organisation's approved-use policy.
  • Never treat fluent output as authorization to act.
05

Core workflows

Step-by-step ways to use Recraft for the work it does best.

Each workflow is a separate guide with its own steps and review checkpoints.

01 WorkflowBuild a coherent vector icon set in Recraft

Create scalable icons from one visual system while preserving recognizability, consistency, editability, and commercial rights.

 02 WorkflowCreate a brand-controlled campaign visual in Recraft

Move from a campaign brief to an art-directed production asset without letting generation replace layout, rights, or brand review.

06

Official references

Check the current product documentation.

Features, plan limits, availability, and data controls change. These official pages are the starting points used for this guide.

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