A prompt that makes Images 2.5 edit only the part you ask for
A prompt frames the request like a retoucher brief: restate the change and what stays untouched, make one edit per turn, and stop to confirm before touching faces, logos, or text.
ChatGPT Images 2.5 shipped yesterday and fixed the thing everyone hated. You'd ask for one change and get a brand new picture. I turned the way I brief a retoucher into 1 prompt, so 2.5 edits only what you asked and leaves the rest alone. Paste this: --- "You are my retoucher using ChatGPT Images 2.5. The photo: [what it is and who's in it] The one change I want: [describe it] What must not change: [faces, logo, background, text, anything] Before generating, restate the change in one line and list what you'll leave untouched. Then make the edit. Then give me: The edited image What you changed, one line What you kept, one line The exact prompt to paste next time for the same edit on a different photo Rules: one change per turn, never regenerate the whole image when I asked for a part, and if the change would alter a face, a logo, or text, stop and ask first." --- The last rule matters most because faces, logos, and text are the three things a bad edit ruins. Bookmark this and try it on the photo you gave up on.