Controlled edit templates
For a focused edit, put the preservation boundary before the requested change. The narrower the request, the easier the result is to evaluate.
- Product: Preserve [shape, label, colour, material, camera]. Change only [background or light].
- Portrait: Preserve [identity, expression, hair, clothing, pose, crop]. Change only [background or lighting].
- Interior: Preserve [room geometry, openings, camera, layout]. Change [materials, palette, or light].
- Removal: Remove only [object]. Reconstruct [surface] consistently and leave every other element unchanged.
Restyle templates
For a broader transformation, protect the source structure and describe the new medium through materials, edges, texture, palette, light, and detail hierarchy.
- Watercolor: transparent washes, paper texture, pigment edges, selective detail
- Sketch: drawing tool, line weight, shading method, paper, detail level
- 3D: material roughness, reflections, geometry, light size, camera
- Editorial: message, shape language, limited palette, texture, negative space
Troubleshoot before adding more words
If the subject drifts, return to the original, shorten the prompt, protect the affected attributes in the first sentence, and make one change. Exact typography, identity, packaging, or pixel-level edits may require a manual or masked workflow.
Turn the guidance into a real result
Open the matching Image to Image AI Lab tool, start with the prompt structure above, and review the generated output before use.
Use a template in Image to Image AI