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Photo Material Fix

Hand it a photograph with one material that reads wrong — gritty ice, plastic wool, rubbery bread — and it fixes that and refuses to touch anything else. Two fields.

bring a photographicsstillphoto-inretouchimage-promptminutes
ExamplesOne photograph in · one out · one thing different
in
Shaved ice
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Knitted wool

We made two examples, from two different photographs: shaved ice with a texture that is too coarse, and knitted wool that is too smooth, two faults pulling in opposite directions. Neither describes how the picture should look, only what the material should read as, and the fix follows from that.

You get your photo back with a single material corrected; lay the result over the original and everything else lines up. Describing the physical fact works better than an adjective: on the wool, loose fibre ends catch the light and soften the edge a little. The colour of the corrected material can drift, as when amber ice came back nearly white, so compare it with your original before you use it.

Generated for this library

Input
  Wrong       the shaved ice in the bowl
  How         coarse and gravelly, like crushed glass -
              it should read as packed snow
  Photograph  ice-bowl.png (1254 x 1254)

Returned   1 image · 1:1 · one thing different

fixed     the ice: crystals below what the eye resolves,
          so the surface reads as a solid soft mass
why       snow reads as snow because no single grain is
          separable at that distance
held      bowl, berries, table, light, crop and framing
          all identical
drifted   the ice's own colour - warm amber in, near-white
          out, which the recolour rule forbids
check     laid over the original, only the ice moves
words     none, in any script
SKILL.mdthe whole thing, as you would paste it© vibary.ai

You fill in 2 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.

  1. 1The one thing that is wrong
  2. 2What is wrong with it, and what it should read as

Photo Material Fix

What this makes

Hand it a photograph with one material that reads wrong — gritty ice, plastic wool, rubbery bread — and it fixes that and refuses to touch anything else. Two fields.

The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.

How to use it

  1. Copy the whole template with the button above.
  2. Attach your photograph and paste the template in the same message.
  3. Replace the two FIELDS lines. In the second, say what the material should read as rather than how it should look — that is what the fix is built from.
  4. Put the two frames side by side before shipping and look at everything except the fault. Anything else that changed is the failure this template exists to catch.
  5. For a second fault, run again from the original photograph, never from the repaired one.

What you swap

The one thing that is wrong
the shaved ice in the bowl
What is wrong with it, and what it should read as
coarse and gravelly, like crushed glass — it should read as packed snow

Before it runs

  • An actual photograph, attached to the message. There is nothing here for a description to work on.
  • One fault, not a list. Two materials wrong in one frame is two runs, because the moment the template is allowed to touch two things it stops being able to promise it touched nothing else.
  • A picture that is otherwise right. This is a repair, not a rescue — if the light and the composition are also wrong, fix those first or use a different template.
  • The fault named as a thing, not as a feeling. 'The ice' can be found in the frame; 'it looks bad' cannot, and a run that cannot find the fault will improve the picture instead.

When to reach for it

When a picture is right except for one surface: a generated shot where the food looks inedible, a render where the fabric looks moulded, a photograph where one material never came out. Templates in this style say make it look better and hand back a different picture — new light, new colour, new crop — with the original fault still in it.

What changes

  • One photograph in, one out — the named material corrected and the rest of the frame identical.
  • The fix is built from the physical reason the material reads right, not from an adjective like natural or appetising.
  • Colour, light, crop, composition and every other surface are named as untouchable, so there is nothing left to quietly improve.
  • Comparable side by side with the original, which is the only way a repair can be checked.
  • No words, no labels, no before-and-after split — one frame, as it should have come out.

Pairs with