Describe where, what, size, and what stays
A useful character-editing prompt answers four questions: where does the character go, what is it doing, how large should it appear, and which parts of the photo should stay intact? Start with visible objects rather than abstract directions. ‘On the empty chair beside the window’ gives a clearer target than ‘somewhere in the background.’
Neegy's optional Requirements field allows up to 300 characters. Use that space for the change you want. A long list of quality adjectives gives less practical direction than a short description of a pose and its relationship to the scene. Examples on this page are written starting points; they are not tested output guarantees.
Place Neegy on the empty chair beside the window, sitting upright and looking toward the table. Match the scale of the seated people and preserve their faces and the room lighting.
The chair anchors the position, sitting describes the pose, nearby people establish scale, and the final instruction names what should remain unchanged.
Adapt the action to something already in the scene
A sofa scene can use ‘sitting on the empty cushion with feet on the floor.’ A hallway scene can use ‘standing beside the doorway, facing the camera.’ A desk scene can use ‘standing behind the empty chair, looking at the monitor.’ Each idea relies on an object the model can locate in the source photo.
Avoid adding several new props at once. Asking for a skateboard, a drink, a costume, and a second character creates more opportunities for the scene to become crowded. Choose the single detail that carries the joke. You can evaluate that idea before deciding whether another edit is worth attempting.
Add Neegy standing on the pavement beside the bench, looking toward the camera. Keep the bench visible, match the nearby person's height, and follow the existing afternoon shadows.
Use this only when the photo actually contains the named objects and lighting. Replace the scene details instead of pasting an unrelated example unchanged.
Remove instructions that pull in opposite directions
‘Keep everything exactly the same’ conflicts with ‘replace the room with a beach.’ ‘Show the whole character’ may conflict with a tight portrait crop. Decide which constraint matters most and choose a source photo that supports it. A prompt cannot create physical room inside a crop without changing something else.
Preservation requests are useful, but they are not guarantees. AI editing can alter small details even when asked not to. Review faces, text, hands, and the background before publishing any output. If exact product labels or documentary accuracy matter, a manual editing workflow may be more appropriate.
Revise one instruction at a time
When an edit misses the idea, name the specific problem. If the character looks too large, change the scale instruction. If it covers a face, name the empty area where it should go. Changing the scene, pose, lighting, and size together makes it difficult to learn which instruction helped.
Keep a short note with the source photo, the prompt, and what you would change. This is more useful than collecting dozens of unrelated prompts. The goal is a repeatable editing brief that fits your own photo, rather than a supposedly universal phrase that promises a perfect result.