Point at the thing you want changed
Click-to-edit lets you click a specific spot on the thumbnail and have your next instruction apply there, rather than to the whole image. It is on by default in the editor — the cursor becomes a crosshair over the stage, and a line above the image reads "Click anywhere on the thumbnail to edit that spot."
It exists because most edits are local. "Change the shirt to red", "remove the logo on the wall", "make that sign readable" are all instructions about one region, and pointing at the region is faster and more reliable than describing where it is.
Using it
- Open a thumbnail in the editor. Click-to-edit is already on.
- Click the part of the image you want to change — the shirt, the sky, the object on the desk.
- Type what should happen to it, in plain words.
- Apply. The edit is targeted at that region and returns a new image, costing one request.
Turning it off
There is an on/off control next to the hint line, and the mode switches itself off while you are working in the Text tab — because there, a click on the stage means "select and drag this layer", not "target this spot". Turn it off manually any time you want to click around the image without arming an edit.
Click the thing, not near it
Point at the centre of the object you mean. Clicking the edge of a jacket where it meets the background gives an ambiguous target, and ambiguous targets are how you get a change applied to the wrong half of the frame.
Instructions that work with a target
| Click on | Say |
|---|---|
| The shirt | "make this a black hoodie" |
| The background wall | "remove the poster and leave a plain wall" |
| An object on the desk | "replace this with a stack of cash" |
| The sky | "make this a stormy sunset" |
| A distracting element | "remove this completely" |
| The subject's hand | "put a phone in this hand" |
Note how short these are. With a target, you do not need to describe location at all — which is exactly the part of a prompt that most often goes wrong.
When not to use it
Some changes are global by nature and are better served by a preset:
- Colour grade for the whole frame → Mood presets
- Relighting the whole scene → Lighting presets
- Changing the whole backdrop → Scene presets
- Changing the person's emotion → Expression
Presets are one click and are tuned to preserve the rest of the frame. A targeted instruction is for the things a preset does not cover.
If the wrong thing changed
- The change spread across the frame. The instruction was global in wording — "make it darker" reads as the whole image. Say "make this object darker".
- Nothing visible happened. The target may have been too small to resolve. Click a larger part of the same object, or describe it as well as pointing at it.
- The subject shifted. Undo. Then add a constraint: "change only the shirt colour; keep the person, pose and background exactly as they are."