Make a precise change to an existing image with one instruction, keeping everything else untouched.
Sometimes ninety-five percent of a generation is exactly right and only one detail is off - the lighting, a prop, an expression. Regenerating from scratch risks losing the ninety-five percent that already worked. Editing fixes only what you name and leaves everything else alone.
One instruction, everything else preserved
Editing runs on the strongest image model specifically because it needs to understand what NOT to change. Give it a single clear instruction - a correction, an addition, a restyle, a background swap - and it preserves everything you did not mention, including any text or logos already in the frame.
- 1Pick the image that is almost right.
- 2Describe only the change you want, as a plain instruction.
- 3Generate the edit and compare it against the original.
If a detail keeps drifting when you only meant to change something else, add a short "keep everything else exactly the same" to the instruction - naming what should stay fixed is as useful as naming what should change.
Editing is a scalpel; the next lesson is closer to a splice - merging what you like from two separate images into one.