The prompt shape: subject, change, hold<\/span><\/h2>\nEvery prompt here follows the same three-part shape, and it is worth building the habit before you paste anything.<\/p>\n
Name the subject.<\/strong> Say what is in the frame in plain nouns. “A matte black water bottle on a pale concrete ledge” beats “a product shot” because the model can only protect details you have actually named.<\/p>\nName one change.<\/strong> One per turn. Two instructions in one sentence compete, and when the result is wrong you cannot tell which half caused it.<\/p>\nList what holds.<\/strong> This is the part most people skip. Spell out identity, pose, camera angle, framing, lighting, shadows, background, and any text that must survive untouched.<\/p>\nThree smaller habits sharpen the same structure. Put required copy inside quotation marks and say how many times it should appear, because quoted strings render more reliably than described ones. Give every reference image a job, naming it as the subject, the style, the garment, or the background rather than attaching it silently. Then restate the important locks on each new turn, since “same as before” carries context but stops holding once the chain gets long.<\/p>\n
Six prompts for GPT Image 2.5 Flare<\/span><\/h2>\nFlare earns its place on the work you repeat. These six run while the image is still moving: first drafts you mean to edit later, plus the small local changes that should take seconds.<\/p>\n
Draft the image you will edit later<\/h3>\n A good starting image is one you can edit afterwards. Each of these names its parts in plain nouns. The model can only protect details you have actually written down.<\/p>\n
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A matte black insulated water bottle standing upright on a pale concrete ledge, shot as a real photograph rather than a render. Three-quarter angle at label height, 50mm lens, soft overcast daylight from the left, a single soft shadow falling to the right. The label is blank. Natural color balance, visible texture in the concrete, shallow depth of field, no reflections on the bottle beyond the soft highlight down its left edge. No text, no logos, no watermarks.<\/p>\n\n \n \n <\/polyline>\n <\/svg>\n Copied<\/span>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/section>\n\n A poster with copy that stays legible<\/h3>\n\n \n
A recruitment poster for a community gardening group, portrait orientation. Flat illustration in four colors: deep green, cream, terracotta, and a warm yellow. A pair of hands lifting a seedling tray fills the lower two thirds. Render this text exactly once, in bold condensed sans-serif capitals across the top third: “GROW WITH US”. Below it, in smaller cream lettering: “Saturdays from nine”. Clean kerning, generous margins, no extra text, no watermarks, no logos.<\/p>\n\n \n \n <\/polyline>\n <\/svg>\n Copied<\/span>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/section>\n\n An infographic laid out to survive edits<\/h3>\n\n \n
A clean instructional diagram titled “How a heat pump moves warmth” for a general audience, landscape orientation, white background. Show four labeled stages connected left to right by arrows: outdoor coil, compressor, indoor coil, and warm air out. Label each stage in plain sentence-case text and keep every label large enough to read at a glance. Simple flat icons, one accent color against grey linework, generous white space. Avoid tiny text and decorative clutter.<\/p>\n\n \n \n <\/polyline>\n <\/svg>\n Copied<\/span>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/section>\n<\/p>\nRun the edits you repeat all day<\/h3>\n Here the preservation clause earns its place. Each prompt names a single change, then spends most of its words protecting everything else in the frame.<\/p>\n
\n Swap the background, hold the subject<\/h3>\n\n \n
Replace only the background behind the bottle with a soft studio backdrop in warm sand, evenly lit and slightly out of focus. Do not change the bottle in any way: keep its shape, proportions, material, matte finish, position in the frame, and the highlight down its left edge exactly as they are. Preserve the camera angle, framing, and the direction and softness of the existing light, and rebuild the contact shadow so it matches the new backdrop naturally. Add no props, text, or logos.<\/p>\n\n \n \n <\/polyline>\n <\/svg>\n Copied<\/span>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/section>\n\n Remove an object, hold the light<\/h3>\n\n \n
Remove the coffee cup from the desk and rebuild the surface underneath it so the wood grain continues naturally. Change nothing else. Keep the person, their pose, their hands, their expression, the laptop, the notebook, the window behind them, the camera angle, and the framing exactly as they are. Preserve the existing lighting direction, color temperature, and the shadows cast by every remaining object. Add nothing to fill the space.<\/p>\n\n \n \n <\/polyline>\n <\/svg>\n Copied<\/span>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/section>\n\n Borrow a style, not the subject<\/h3>\n\n \n
Use the reference image only as a style guide: take its palette, brush texture, line weight, and visual medium, and nothing else. Ignore its subject and composition entirely. Apply that style to a new scene of a fishing boat moored in a narrow harbor at first light, viewed from the quayside at eye level. Keep the new composition simple and readable. Add no text, no signature, and no elements carried over from the reference.<\/p>\n\n \n \n <\/polyline>\n <\/svg>\n Copied<\/span>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/section>\n<\/p>\nSix prompts for GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst<\/span><\/h2>\nSunburst is for work that has to survive inspection. Exact copy, a recognizable face, and a long chain of edits all reward the precision variant. The wording would still run on Flare unchanged.<\/p>\n
Hold exact copy and identity<\/h3>\n These three lean on what Sunburst protects best: a quoted line of copy, a face, a set of references. Name the job of each picture, then state which one must not bend.<\/p>\n
\n Replace a line of copy, hold the layout<\/h3>\n\n \n
Change only the smaller line of text to read “Sundays from ten”, rendered exactly once and spelled that way. Keep the headline, the typeface, the weight, the letter spacing, the color palette, the illustration, the margins, and the position of every element identical to the original. Match the replacement line to the existing type treatment so it looks set in the same file. Do not adjust the layout to fit it, and do not add any other text.<\/p>\n\n \n \n <\/polyline>\n <\/svg>\n Copied<\/span>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/section>\n\n Keep a face across a new scene<\/h3>\n\n \n
Place the person from the reference image into a new setting: standing at the end of a wooden pier at dusk, looking out across the water rather than at the camera, hands in jacket pockets. Preserve her exact likeness, facial features, skin tone, hairstyle, and proportions without any change at all. Full body visible, feet included. Natural dusk light, realistic colors, grounded and unstyled, like a photograph somebody actually took. No cinematic grading, no added accessories, no text.<\/p>\n\n \n \n <\/polyline>\n <\/svg>\n Copied<\/span>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/section>\n\n Dress a subject from clothing references<\/h3>\n\n \n
Dress the person in the first image using the garments in the remaining reference images, fitting each one naturally to her existing pose and body geometry with realistic fabric behavior. Do not change her face, skin tone, body shape, pose, hairstyle, or identity in any way. Match the lighting, shadow direction, and color temperature of the original photograph so the clothing integrates rather than looking pasted on. Keep the background, camera angle, and framing unchanged, and add no accessories, text, or logos.<\/p>\n\n \n \n <\/polyline>\n <\/svg>\n Copied<\/span>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/section>\n<\/p>\nRun a multi-turn edit chain<\/h3>\n This is the part GPT Image 2.5 was built for. Take the product shot you drafted on Flare, move it to Sunburst, and run these three in order. Notice that the locks get restated every turn rather than assumed.<\/p>\n
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Make it a wet evening after rain. Keep the bottle, its position, proportions, matte finish, and label area exactly as they are, and keep the camera angle and framing unchanged. Change only the light and the surface: cooler blue evening tone, a damp sheen on the concrete, and a soft reflection beneath the bottle. Do not add rain streaks on the bottle itself, and add no props, text, or logos.<\/p>\n\n \n \n <\/polyline>\n <\/svg>\n Copied<\/span>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/section>\n\n Turn two: change a second element<\/h3>\n\n \n
Now add a single sprig of eucalyptus lying on the ledge to the right of the bottle, flat and slightly angled away from the camera. Keep everything established so far: the bottle unchanged in shape, position, proportions and finish, the wet concrete, the cool evening light, the reflection beneath the bottle, the camera angle, and the framing. Light the eucalyptus with the same source and give it a matching damp sheen and contact shadow. Add nothing else.<\/p>\n\n \n \n <\/polyline>\n <\/svg>\n Copied<\/span>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/section>\n\n Turn three: the restatement that stops the drift<\/h3>\n\n \n
Increase the contrast slightly and deepen the shadows, nothing more. Restate and hold every element already approved: the bottle’s exact shape, position, proportions, matte finish and left edge highlight, the eucalyptus sprig in its current position and angle, the wet concrete sheen, the reflection, the cool evening tone, the camera angle, and the framing. Do not re-render the bottle, do not move anything, and do not introduce props, text, or logos.<\/p>\n\n \n \n <\/polyline>\n <\/svg>\n Copied<\/span>\n <\/button>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/section>\n\n Get answers to common questions<\/h2>\n \n \n
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Yes, and the reverse too. Both variants read identical wording. The split above is about which job each one suits, not two ways of writing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Why does my edit change things I never asked about?<\/span>\n \n \n <\/svg>\n <\/button>\n \n
Usually because the prompt named the change but not the constraints. Add an explicit list of what holds, covering identity, pose, camera angle, lighting, background, and any text, then run it again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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GPT Image 2.5 accepts up to 16 reference images on an edit. Give each one a stated role, such as the subject, the garment, or the style, so the model knows what to take from which.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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You can, but results get harder to steer. One change per turn is more reliable, and multi-turn stability means the earlier edits stay put while you work through them in sequence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Why is the small text in my infographic wrong?<\/span>\n \n \n <\/svg>\n <\/button>\n \n
Dense small text can still take more than one attempt. Quote the exact wording, reduce how much copy sits in the layout, and ask for labels large enough to read at a glance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Far less than it used to. Earlier changes are more likely to survive later ones, though restating your key locks on each turn is still the surest way to stop slow drift.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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