Your first edit

Change one thing in an image and keep the rest, check for collateral changes, then remove the background and upscale.

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Outcome: Queen Pip's royal blue dress turned emerald green with nothing else changed, then a transparent cutout and a 2x upscale. You also see what a vague edit prompt does. The edit uses GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst.

Queen Pip on the castle steps twice, side by side: left in her royal blue dress, right in an emerald green dress with the same gold trim; crown, cloak, scepter, background and light are the same
Before and after. Only the dress changed.
  1. 1EditChange the dress, keep the rest
  2. 2CheckFlip original and edit
  3. 3Cut outPhotoroom Background Removal
  4. 4UpscaleTopaz Image Upscale, CGI, 2x

What you need

  • Any plan with credits, Free included. See Plans and pricing.
  • An image: the one you kept in Your first image, or your own.
  • Credits for three steps, plus one output for the vague-edit test. Each tool shows its price on its button.

1. Edit one thing

  1. Open Create > Images and choose GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst.
  2. Under Reference Images, click Select from Library and pick the image you kept (or open it and click Use as Reference).
  3. Set Image Count to 2 and the preset 3:2 (1536x1024), as on the original.
  4. Paste the prompt below and click Generate.
The Reference Images section of the Generate Image panel, with Select from Library and Upload
Reference Images on the Generate Image panel.
Prompt
Change only her dress: make it a deep emerald green dress with the same shape, length,
gold trim and gold fleur-de-lis embroidery. Keep everything else exactly as it is: her
face, expression, hair buns, the gold crown and its blue gems and its tilt, the ermine
cloak with its royal blue lining, the gold mace scepter, her hands, belt, white sleeves,
tights and brown boots, her pose, the stone steps, the castle, banners, guards and sky,
the light and the framing.

The prompt names the one change, how much changes (color only, same shape) and what must stay. Models keep what you name more reliably than what you leave out.

Both outputs came back in about 45 seconds, clean: the gems on the crown and the belt stayed blue, and the cloak lining stayed royal blue. The first was kept.

Queen Pip in an emerald green dress with gold trim, otherwise identical to the original image: tilted gold crown with blue gems, ermine cloak with royal blue lining, gold scepter, castle steps
The kept edit. GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst with the original as reference, 1536 x 1024.

2. See what a vague edit does

The same image with a short prompt:

Prompt
Make the dress green and make the picture look nicer.

One output. The dress turned green, but "look nicer" let the model restyle the scene: the banners, the guards' tabards, the crown's gems and the cloak lining all turned green, and climbing ivy, white flowers and green pennants appeared on the walls.

Crops of the same corner of the courtyard: on the left a blue banner with a gold fleur-de-lis and guards in blue, on the right the banner and the guards' tabards turned green and ivy now climbs the wall
The same corner. Left: original. Right: after the vague edit.

Over the whole image, the vague edit visibly changed 62.6% of the pixels (by more than 24 of 255 levels), against 4.5% for the precise edit, which is roughly the area of the dress.

Check before you accept
Accept when

the dress is the new color with the same shape, trim and embroidery; flipping between original and edit, nothing else moves: face, crown and gems, cloak and lining, scepter, hands, boots, banners, light and framing match.

Reject when

other parts picked up the new color (gems, lining, banners); plants, flags or people appeared or moved; the light or color grade changed; the framing shifted; her face or pose differs, even slightly.

Flip to check. Open the original and the edit at the same size and switch between them: unasked changes jump out. See Edit one thing.

3. Remove the background

  1. Open Create > Remove Background. The default model is Photoroom Background Removal.
  2. Under Image, click Select from Library and pick the green-dress edit.
  3. Keep the default settings, with a transparent background.
  4. Click Remove Background.
The Remove Background tool with the Photoroom Background Removal model, the Image upload area, its settings and the Remove Background button
Create > Remove Background.

The result is a PNG with transparency at 1536 x 1024, in about 4 seconds.

Queen Pip in her green dress, cut out on a transparent background: crown, scepter, ermine cloak trailing to the right
The cutout. The steps and the castle went with the background.

Check the edges at full size: stray hair strands, the fur trim of the cloak, the gap between the scepter and her arm. Here they were clean, on a dark test background too. The boots and the cloak hem end flat where they stood on the step: fine for a character cutout, and a cue to add a ground shadow when you place her on a new scene.

4. Upscale

  1. Open Create > Enhance. The model is Topaz Image Upscale.
  2. Under Image, select the cutout from your library.
  3. Set Model to CGI, which suits rendered images, and Scaling Factor to 2x. Leave Face Enhancement off.
  4. Click Enhance.
The Enhance tool with the Topaz Image Upscale model, the Image upload area, its settings and the Enhance button
Create > Enhance.

The result is 3072 x 2048, with transparency kept, in about 10 seconds.

Queen Pip's eye and hair before and after a 2x upscale: the left crop is soft and blocky, the right crop shows separate hair strands and a crisp eyelid line
Left: before, enlarged. Right: after Topaz Image Upscale, CGI, 2x.
The upscaled cutout of Queen Pip on a transparent background
The upscaled cutout, shown here at 2000 pixels wide.
Check before you accept
Accept when

edges are sharper and the shapes are unchanged; eyes, crown gems and the fur trim look like the original at a larger size; transparency is intact.

Reject when

the upscale invents features (new gems, seams, letters), smears the fur into noise, or adds a halo around the cutout.

The CGI setting split the hair into fine strands and added a light texture to the skin; at this size it reads as detail and was kept. If it looks like grain on your image, try another Model setting.

If it breaks

  • The edit changed more than you asked. Add the parts that changed to the "keep" list, by name, and run again. Leave out "make it nicer" or "improve".
  • The edit ignored your image. It is not in Reference Images: check that it shows there before you click Generate.
  • The aspect ratio changed. Set the same preset as the original.
  • The cutout lost a thin part (a strap, a hair strand, a scepter shaft). Try another background removal model in the Model box, or fix the mask with Retouch.
  • The upscale looks over-sharpened. Use a lower scaling factor or another Model setting, and compare crops at 100%.
  • Normal variance. Two outputs from the same edit prompt can differ in small details: generate two and keep the closer one.
  • The model is missing from Choose a Model. Check the spelling in the model search; if it is still missing, an admin may have turned it off for your organization or project. See Control model access.

Next

Animate the green-dress image: Your first video. Then run Queen Pip through a ready-made App in Your first workflow.

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