AI image prompts that actually work
20 prompts for restoring old photos, building headshots, staging rooms and more — each written in full, with notes on what to change and what usually goes wrong. Copy one and paste it into whichever AI image tool you already use.
- Edits your photo
Restore an old, damaged photograph
Repairs cracks, scratches, fading and water damage on a scanned print while keeping the person's real face.
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Colourise a black-and-white photo
Adds believable period-accurate colour to a monochrome photograph.
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Sharpen a blurry, low-resolution photo
Recovers detail in a soft or small image without the waxy over-sharpened look.
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Turn a snapshot into a professional headshot
Converts a casual photo into a clean corporate headshot without changing the person.
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Make a compliant passport photo from a selfie
Reframes and relights a selfie to standard ID-photo requirements.
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Clean white-background product shot
Turns a phone photo of a product into a marketplace-ready catalogue image.
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Put a product into a lifestyle scene
Places an isolated product into a believable real-world setting for ads and social.
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Replace the background behind a subject
Swaps the background while keeping edges and lighting believable.
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Give a photo an authentic film look
Applies a convincing analogue film treatment rather than a flat Instagram filter.
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Turn a photo into an oil painting
Repaints a photograph in a classical portrait style with visible brushwork.
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Convert a photo to watercolour illustration
Loose, airy watercolour treatment with paper texture and bleeding edges.
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Virtually stage an empty room
Furnishes an empty property photo for a listing, keeping the architecture true.
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Redesign a room in a new style
Restyles an existing furnished room while keeping its structure and viewpoint.
- Creates new image
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3D cartoon avatar from a photo
A stylised 3D character that keeps the subject's likeness — good for profile pictures.
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Remove unwanted objects from a photo
Cleanly deletes people, wires, bins or signage and rebuilds what was behind them.
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Rebuild a badly torn family photo
For photos with missing corners or pieces, where whole areas must be reconstructed.