Starting from an image

Instead of describing a scene from nothing, you can hand over a picture and ask for a new version of it. Same room, different light. Same product, different background. Same photo, painted rather than photographed.

Supplying the picture

Where the panel asks for a source image you can:

• Upload from your device — pick a file, or drag it onto the page
• Choose from your library — anything already there, including things you generated earlier
• Drag from the gallery — pick up an image on the right, drop it into the field on the left

Uploading also adds the file to your library, under Uploads, so you only ever need to do it once. See uploading your own files.

Then describe the change

The prompt still matters — but now it describes the result you want, not the picture you supplied.

Given a photo of a kitchen, do not write “a kitchen”. Write what should be different:

the same kitchen at night, lit only by candles, warm shadows

The model can see the picture. It cannot see your intention.

Strength: the control that matters

One setting does most of the work here. It goes by strength, or by a phrase like how much to change.

The two failure modes and their fix:

• Nothing seems to have changed → strength too low, raise it
• Your subject is gone or unrecognisable → strength too high, lower it

Start in the middle and adjust in small steps.

What it holds on to, and what it does not

Layout, pose and rough composition survive well. Fine detail does not necessarily: faces, hands, small text and precise patterns get reinterpreted, and the more you raise strength the more they drift.

For anything where exact likeness matters, work at low strength and accept smaller changes.

Common uses

Restyle a photo. Supply the photo, describe the style — watercolour, oil painting, pencil sketch. Medium strength.

Change the setting. Same subject, somewhere else. Say where.

Change the light. Daylight to golden hour, indoor to outdoor. Low to medium strength — light changes do not need much room.

Clean up a product shot. Supply the product, ask for a clean seamless background. Low strength, so the product itself stays honest.

Extend an idea. Take something you generated, feed it back in with a modified prompt, and follow the thread. This is a good way to develop a look, and it is why generated images sit in your library ready to be reused.

Reference images

Some models accept a reference image for a different purpose — keeping a subject or a style consistent across several pictures, rather than transforming that one picture. Where this is available, the field says what it uses the picture for.

The distinction matters: a source image is the thing being changed, a reference image is guidance for making something new.

What you may supply

Your own pictures, and pictures you have the right to use. Uploads pass the same content checks as anything else, and something that fails a check will not process. See the terms in the app for the full rules.

If it is not working