Photo editing prompts
Describe one change. Keep the rest.
See how a focused instruction removes, adds, relights, retouches, restores, or replaces a background. Pick an example to open Photo Editor with the matching task already selected.
Six focused edits
Each comparison shows one edit request and a result. Choose a task to carry its wording into Photo Editor, then upload your own photo and adapt the details.
01 · Remove
Instruction
“Remove the red cup on the right side of the table. Keep the book, furniture, plants, window, framing, and lighting unchanged.”
When you try it, check whether the tabletop texture and nearby book remain natural where the cup was removed.
02 · Background
Instruction
“Replace only the gray studio background with a quiet beach at sunset. Keep the person, face, hair, sweater, pose, and framing unchanged.”
When you try it, check hair and clothing edges, skin tone, and whether the new light belongs with the subject.
03 · Lighting
Instruction
“Add warm late-afternoon sunlight through the window. Keep the furniture, plants, room layout, camera angle, and framing unchanged.”
When you try it, check whether the new highlights and shadows agree on a light direction and the furniture stays put.
04 · Retouch
Instruction
“Slightly reduce the under-eye shadows and remove the small blemish on the right cheek. Keep the face shape, skin texture, expression, hair, lighting, and framing unchanged.”
When you try it, check skin texture, natural shadows, and whether the person's expression or facial features changed.
05 · Restore
Instruction
“Repair the scratches and reduce the faded color across this family photo. Keep every face, expression, pose, outfit, period detail, and the original framing unchanged.”
When you try it, check faces, clothing, and period details; generative repair may guess at information the original no longer contains.
06 · Add
Instruction
“Add a red ceramic cup in the empty space on the right side of the table. Keep the book, furniture, plants, window, framing, and lighting unchanged.”
When you try it, check the cup's scale, contact shadow, and perspective relative to the rest of the table.
Better editing prompts
Name one action and its target: remove a cup, replace a background, soften a shadow, or repair a scratch. Avoid a vague request to “improve” the whole photo.
The optional location field appears for removal, retouching, and adding objects. Use it to distinguish similar targets, such as the cup on the right side of the table.
Name the details you will compare with the original: a person's expression, the product label, furniture, framing, or the direction of light.
One focused change at a time is easier to review. Finish the first edit, keep editing from that result, and then describe the next change.
Use Image to Image for a broader restyle, room redesign, or scene transformation. Photo Editor is better when most of the image is already right.
No. Even a focused prompt can change identity details, skin texture, hair, clothing, or missing historical detail. Review important people closely and keep the original file.
Open Photo Editor when the source is already right and one part needs to change.
