Edit passes, then a fresh image

Edit a near-miss; regenerate a structural miss [proven]. Nobody fixes the pixels.

No pixel fixes (decided): no recolour, paste, warp, retouch or panel assembly on a generated picture, by you or anyone else. A near-miss is fixed by a model edit pass or a new image.

The budget [official guidance]: one model edit pass where possible, at most two, then a new image.

1. Each pass makes one named change.

2. The identity close-up is attached again to every pass on an image with a face.

3. After every pass, a full-size check: the face crop beside the close-up, every label letter by letter, and the hands after any pass that touched them. A pass that loses likeness or label accuracy fails, however good the rest is.

4. Then a fresh generation from the anchors, with the prompt corrected for the named fault.

• Regenerate at once when the composition, pose, framing, contact or performance is wrong, a much larger or smaller object, or a new shape, is needed, several linked things must change, or an edit made the face less like the close-up.

• How an edit prompt reads (capitals are allowed in edits), in this order:

  1. the image to edit as Image 1, and the close-up as Image 2 where there is a face;

  2. the goal in one sentence;

  3. the one change, and for a removal, what fills the gap;

  4. a full list of everything that stays untouched (identity, pose, framing, wardrobe, every other object, light, grade, palette, grain, focus);

  5. the one change restated;

  6. a closing line that nothing else moves.

• Several changes in one pass. Option: use it when an image has no face and needs several small, independent changes [single strong source]. Name them in one pass, which counts as one of the two. Never on an image with a face.

• Stop at the same failure twice, or when the budget and one fresh generation haven't fixed it. Write down the crops, the diagnosis and the options, then choose. Never drop a chosen design after one failure.

• Tools that redraw nothing: a uniform crop or zoom; background removal on a client product photo, checked at full size. Exposure or white balance on a whole image only as a declared grade in the edit. Higgsfield's Edit Image counts as a pass when it runs an approved model; its Edit Text is never the label route; its Enhancer is never used on faces. If an edit softens skin, make a new image.

Sources

• Google's Nano Banana Pro prompting tips (edit rather than re-roll); Higgsfield's studio (the change-and-keep edit form); @adilinthewildtempo (blog) (several changes in one pass).