AI prompt library
Free photo editing prompts ready to paste. Drop one into Gemini or ChatGPT, add your photo, and see what comes back.
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A photo editing prompt is a short written instruction you paste into an AI tool along with your photo. It tells the AI exactly what to change: the lighting, the background, the outfit, the style. A clear one gets you a usable edit in one or two tries. A vague one wastes your evening. The prompts on this page work in Gemini, ChatGPT, Midjourney's editor, and most other image tools. Copy one, upload your photo, paste, and adjust a word or two until it fits.…
Add a realistic golden-hour glow, rich sunset color, refined film texture, and an elegant luminous Golden Hour title to a coastal portrait.
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A clean grey studio headshot with soft key light. Copy the exact ChatGPT prompt text with face lock for office use.
A fresh outdoor portrait under green canopy. Copy the exact ChatGPT prompt text for women with face lock and daylight.
A warm indoor portrait with table lamp glow. Copy the exact ChatGPT prompt text for men with face lock and home backdrop.
A calm window seat candid with morning light. Copy the exact ChatGPT prompt text with face lock and home interior.
An Ashtami white and red saree portrait. Copy paste Navratri Gemini prompt with face lock and calm morning light.
A festive cream kurta look with marigold backdrop. Copy paste Navratri Gemini prompt for boys with face lock and daylight.
A marigold wall portrait for men at Navratri. Copy paste Gemini prompt with face lock, rust shirt and warm daylight.
A gentle back hug in light rain with umbrella. Copy paste Gemini couple hug prompt with both face locks and soft daylight.
A soft forehead rest on a sunny terrace. Copy paste Gemini couple hug prompt with both face locks and morning light.
A cozy seated hug on a home sofa. Copy paste Gemini couple hug prompt with both face locks and warm lamp light.
A relaxed side hug on courtyard steps. Copy paste Gemini couple hug prompt with both face locks and warm evening glow.
A traditional courtyard portrait of husband and wife. Copy paste Gemini couple prompt with both face locks and festive dress.
Moody 80s trend prompt for ChatGPT: a black-and-white studio portrait with Rembrandt light, pressed-collar shirt and silver-gelatin grain.
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Saree prompt for ChatGPT with royal winter mood: bottle-green velvet saree, emerald choker and a palace corridor with arches.
A vintage living room with tube TV and warm lamp. Copy paste Gemini couple prompt with both face locks and 80s decor.
A soft dream portrait with butterflies around the face. Copy paste ChatGPT photo edit for women with face lock and gentle morning light.
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A tabletop Polaroid that shows the same adult a few years younger. Copy paste ChatGPT photo edit with face lock and soft film grain.
A warm library portrait with soft lamp light. Copy paste ChatGPT photo edit for women with face lock and wooden bookshelf backdrop.
Turn an outdoor photo into a photorealistic epic fantasy sunrise with natural god rays, green landscapes, clean skin tones, and cinematic HDR.
Turn a selfie into a hand-painted 1980s Bollywood film poster with bold brush strokes, dramatic lighting and retro title lettering. Viral 1980s AI photo prompt.
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The guide
A photo editing prompt is a short written instruction you paste into an AI tool along with your photo. It tells the AI exactly what to change: the lighting, the background, the outfit, the style. A clear one gets you a usable edit in one or two tries. A vague one wastes your evening.
The prompts on this page work in Gemini, ChatGPT, Midjourney's editor, and most other image tools. Copy one, upload your photo, paste, and adjust a word or two until it fits.
People blame the AI when an edit comes back looking wrong. Nine times out of ten the prompt was the problem. 'Make my photo better' gives the model nothing to work with, so it guesses. 'Brighten the shadows on my face, keep the background unchanged' gives it a job it can actually do.
The models are good now. Gemini and ChatGPT can both retouch skin, swap backgrounds, relight a scene, and restyle clothes from a single photo. What they cannot do is read your mind.
Write the keep line before the look line. If you only remember one rule from this page, make it that one.
| Edit you want | Wording to try |
|---|---|
| Cleaner portrait | 'Retouch this photo lightly: even out skin tone, reduce shine, keep pores and texture real. Keep my face unchanged.' |
| New background | 'Replace the background with a soft, blurred city street at dusk. Match the lighting on me to the new scene. Keep my face and clothes the same.' |
| Better lighting | 'Relight this photo with warm window light from the left, gentle shadows, natural skin tones. Keep everything else unchanged.' |
| Outfit change | 'Change my outfit to a plain black formal suit. Keep my face, pose, and background exactly as they are.' |
| Old photo repair | 'Restore this old photo: remove scratches and dust, fix faded colors, sharpen gently. Do not change any faces.' |
| Film look | 'Grade this photo like 35mm film: soft grain, slightly faded blacks, warm highlights. Keep the framing unchanged.' |
For editing your own photos, Gemini is the easiest starting point. Its image model handles face-preserving edits well, and there is a free tier. We keep a separate page of Gemini photo editing prompts tuned for it.
ChatGPT is the better talker. You can go back and forth: 'a bit warmer', 'less blur', 'try again with shorter hair'. If that is your style, start with our ChatGPT photo editing prompts.
Midjourney gives the most stylised results but is the least literal about keeping faces. Use it for artistic edits, not for photos where you need to stay recognisable.
Your keep line was missing or too weak. Add 'keep my exact face, do not alter facial features' and try again. If it still drifts, cut some style words. Strong style words fight the keep line, and the style words usually win.
The model over-retouched. Ask for less: 'light retouch only, keep real skin texture, no smoothing'. Words like 'flawless' and 'perfect' are what cause the wax-figure look, so leave them out.
You asked for too much in one go. Split the prompt: background first, then lighting, then the outfit. Each pass stays accurate because the model only has one thing to think about.
Once a prompt works, save it and treat it as a template. The structure carries over; only the specifics change. 'Replace the background with X, match the lighting, keep my face the same' works whether X is a beach, an office, or a wedding stage. Most people who edit photos with AI every week rely on five or six saved prompts and swap the details.
Questions
It is the written instruction you give an AI tool together with your photo. It names the change you want (background, lighting, outfit, retouch), what must stay the same, and the style of the finish. The AI applies the edit to your image based on those words.
Gemini is the easiest for face-preserving edits of your own photos and has a free tier. ChatGPT is better if you like refining an edit over several messages. Midjourney suits artistic restyling more than faithful editing. The prompts on this page work in all three with minor tweaks.
Add an explicit keep line: 'keep my face, features, and expression exactly the same.' Put it right after the change you are asking for, and keep style words moderate. If the face still drifts, remove style words one at a time until it holds.
Yes. Every prompt on this page is free to copy, and there is no signup. Gemini and ChatGPT both offer free tiers that handle a reasonable number of image edits per day.
The model over-smoothed the skin, which usually happens when a prompt asks for a 'perfect' or 'flawless' result. Ask for a light retouch instead and tell it to keep real skin texture. Natural beats perfect in nearly every photo.
