Editing became structural and immediate: Luma Agents exposed image layers for conversational revision, while Decart's Lucy 2.5 brought prompt-controlled transformation to live video.
Luma launched Layers in Agents, letting users extract elements from an uploaded or generated image and then swap products, backgrounds or copy through conversation. Structural separation preserves approved parts of a frame and makes revision cheaper than regenerating the whole composition. Use it for controlled client variants, but retain the original image and verify edges, shadows and occlusion after every layer replacement.
Curious Refuge tested Decart's Lucy 2.5 changing outfits, effects, lighting and characters on a live video stream. Real-time feedback changes the creative loop from render-and-wait to perform-and-adjust, which is especially useful for previs, streaming and virtual production. Teams should measure latency and temporal stability under movement before treating it as a final-pixel tool; its immediate value is interactive direction.
