ChatGPT photo editing prompts

Turn a phone selfie into a friendly LinkedIn profile photo — bright, even light, a soft blue-grey background, and head-and-shoulders framing that stays clean inside the circular crop.

Convert a casual selfie into a professional headshot — neutral studio backdrop, soft key-and-fill light, business head-and-shoulders crop, face held.

Turn a general photo into a LinkedIn profile picture — clean background, balanced light, professional crop and tone, identity kept.

Improve lighting and background on a headshot — with hard instructions to leave the face geometry, age, and expression untouched.

Relight a portrait with directional side light on a dark backdrop — expressive, creative-professional, face left alone.

Standardise a casual photo into a formal resume headshot — collared shirt or blazer impression, mid-grey backdrop, even exposure, tight business crop.

Place the product on seamless white, even softbox lighting, remove shadows and reflections, e-commerce ready.

Cut the product out of a messy or coloured background and place it on pure white with a soft contact shadow and even commercial light.

Stage the product in a believable in-use scene — a desk, café table, or bathroom shelf — with matched light and a few on-brand props.

Restyle the scene and lighting around the product, but lock every label, logo, and barcode exactly as-is — same wording, same spelling, crisp and legible.

Square frame, pure white, product filling about 85% with an even margin and shadowless light — sized like a marketplace main image.

Render jewelry as a crisp macro on a clean surface — controlled soft reflections, sharp facets, true metal and gemstone colour, no blown highlights.

Repair scratches and creases, recover faded detail, add period-accurate color while keeping the original grain.

Sharpen and denoise a soft old photo, recover the detail that is genuinely there, and leave anything lost alone.

Upload your scan, ask ChatGPT to repair damage while keeping faces, then refine over-smoothing in a follow-up.

Repair the damage on a family photo but lock every face — the value is the real memory, not a prettier version.

Colorize a black-and-white scene with restrained, period-plausible tones — when a color is uncertain, keep it neutral.

Repair the damage but forbid inventing missing faces, clothing, or background — leave genuinely lost areas neutral.

Mask the subject precisely including hair edges, drop the background to transparent, keep a crisp natural outline.

Cut the subject cleanly and drop in a solid studio-color backdrop — mask the hair edges and relight the rim so the composite reads natural.

Erase the named object and reconstruct what was behind it — continuous texture and lighting, no smears, ghosting, or warped neighbours.

Place the named element into the scene at the right scale and perspective — match the light direction and cast a believable shadow, leave the rest untouched.

Apply a smooth shallow-depth-of-field blur to the background — keep the subject's hair and glasses crisp, no haloing.

Extend the canvas outward and generate surrounding scene that continues the perspective and lighting — leave the original frame untouched, no duplicate subjects.

Push a film-still mood — lifted shadows, warm skin against cool background, gentle halation on highlights.

Apply a cinematic color grade — cool shadows, warm highlights, gentle contrast — keep the scene and subject realistic, no fake film scratches.

Relight the portrait with warm side-on golden-hour light and a soft rim — warm the skin gently, keep the face and pose unchanged.

Add cyberpunk neon glow, rain-slick reflections, and a teal-magenta grade — keep the subject's geometry exactly, only the light and colour change.

Render the photo as a soft watercolour — gentle colour bleed, visible paper texture — keep the subject and composition readable.

Grade the portrait toward a warm color-negative film look — creamy skin, restrained contrast, a touch of highlight halation — keep the face consistent.

Give a selfie an editorial Instagram grade — soft tonal contrast, a 4:5 crop, kept skin texture and the same face.

Add a hard on-camera flash, slight overexposure up front, and date-stamp-era grain — face and pose unchanged.

Add a white instant-film border, a soft faded grade, and subtle grain — faces kept exactly as they are.

Light the face with magenta and cyan neon, add gentle highlight bloom, darken the background — face unchanged.

Add restrained contrast, colour, and exposure fixes to a flat snapshot — no heavy filter, same real photo.

Recompose to 4:5 with balanced headroom, extending the background where needed — never stretch the subject.