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One portrait, five looks

One AI portrait edited five ways in Nodaro with Lighting, Color / Look, Style and Lens pickers instead of a written prompt, with the words each picker added.

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The Get started with image editing tutorial changes one AI portrait with pickers instead of written prompts. Each edit is a Modify Image node with an empty prompt and a look picker, so the picker's words are the whole instruction. This page shows five of those edits, the exact words each picker added, and two edits made without a picker.

The original image

The portrait came from one Generate Image node with GPT Image 2 at 4K. It shows a woman who does not exist, in a mustard jacket, in an empty white loft. Every edit below reads this same image.

A young woman with round glasses and a mustard linen jacket holds a book in an empty white loft with a tall window, a stool and an easel
The original, made with GPT Image 2 at 4K.

This is the prompt the image was made from, word for word:

The prompt of the original
A strikingly beautiful young woman standing in a bright empty artist's loft, Medium three-quarter shot from the chest up, body angled slightly left, calm Confident expression, looking just off-camera. Symmetrical features, high Cheekbones, clear natural skin with visible texture, expressive eyes, soft Full lips, chestnut hair loosely pulled up with a few strands falling free. Editorial beauty, natural and believable, minimal makeup. She wears a plain mustard-yellow linen jacket over a white cotton t-shirt, a Thin silver chain necklace, and small round glasses. One hand rests at her Side holding a closed hardback book. Behind her, a large multi-pane window on the left, a bare white brick wall, a Single wooden stool, and an empty wooden easel. Overcast midday daylight, soft And even, no harsh shadows. Neutral color grade, natural skin tones. 50mm lens, F/4, sharp focus front to back. Generous headroom and open space to her right. Clean, uncluttered composition. Photorealistic, fine detail in the fabric weave And individual hair strands. Avoid: text, watermark, logo, signature, extreme close-up, dramatic lighting, harsh shadows, heavy color grade, motion blur, bokeh, cluttered background, multiple people, cropped head, distorted hands, airbrushed plastic skin, over-smoothed face, heavy makeup, duplicate limbs

How each edit is connected

imagecinematographyGenerate ImageGPT Image 2, 4KLightingGolden HourModify ImageGPT Image 2 (I2I), empty prompt
One edit: the original goes into the Image input of Modify Image, one look picker goes into its Cinematography input, and the prompt stays empty.

Each edit uses the same three parts:

  1. The original image, connected to the Image input of a Modify Image node.
  2. One look picker, connected to the Cinematography input of the same node.
  3. An empty Transformation Prompt, so the picker's words are the whole prompt.

The pickers ran in Full mode, the default, which adds the longer description of each choice. Creative controls explains the modes and the other places a picker can connect.

Five looks, five choices

Under each result is the exact text its picker added to the prompt.

The same woman in the loft at golden hour, with low warm sunlight through the window and long window shadows on the brick wall
Lighting › Golden HourGolden hour lighting, warm sunset glow with soft directional sunlight and saturated golden tones
The same woman in the loft with a teal and orange grade: teal shadows on the wall, warm skin and a warm jacket
Color / Look › Teal & OrangeTeal and orange color grade, warm skin tones against cool teal shadows, Hollywood blockbuster look
The same scene as a thick oil painting with anime features: large eyes, painted brush strokes on the wall and the window
Style › Anime and Style › Oil Painting, two pickers on one nodeAnime style, Japanese animation aesthetic with bold cel-shaded lines, expressive eyes and saturated colors, oil painting style, visible thick brush strokes on canvas with rich pigment, classical painterly texture and warm tonal blending
The same woman in a dark room lit by magenta and cyan neon, with a rainy city at night through the window
Style › CyberpunkCyberpunk style, neon-lit dystopian future aesthetic with magenta and cyan glow, rain-slick reflections, high-tech low-life mood and dense urban detail
A closer portrait of the same woman with the loft blurred behind her
Lens › Portrait (85mm)Shot on 85mm portrait lens, flattering facial compression with creamy background bokeh

What changed and what stayed

LookWhat changedWhat stayed
Golden HourLow, warm light through the window, with long shadows on the wallThe woman, her clothes, the book, the stool and the easel
Teal & OrangeCool teal shadows across the roomWarm skin and the mustard jacket, the whole composition
Anime and Oil PaintingThe whole frame became a thick-paint canvas, with anime eyesThe pose, the window, the stool and the easel
CyberpunkThe loft became a dark room lit by neon, with a rainy city outsideHer pose, her glasses and the book
Portrait (85mm)A closer frame and a blurred background. The model also removed her glasses and the book, which the picker did not ask forHer face, her hair and the jacket

Two edits without a picker

A picker is the fastest way to set a look. For one exact change, a written prompt is clearer. The jacket edit below used this prompt on the same Modify Image setup:

The jacket edit
Change the mustard-yellow jacket to deep navy wool. Keep everything else identical.
The original woman in the mustard jacketBefore
The same woman, the same pose and room, in a navy wool jacketAfter
A written instruction changed the jacket and kept the rest of the image.

The Remove Background node needs no prompt at all. It cut the woman out of the loft and returned the image with a transparent background.

The original woman in the loftBefore
The woman alone on a transparent backgroundAfter
Remove Background with Recraft Remove BG: the woman on a transparent background.

What it costs

Prices are today's, for the same settings:

StepModelCredits
The original, at 4KGPT Image 284
Each edit, at the default 1KGPT Image 2 (I2I)17
The cut-outRecraft Remove BG4
Each pickerNone0

The five picker edits and the jacket edit together cost 102 credits.

Try it

Open the Get started with image editing tutorial on app.nodaro.ai. It shows this run, with every node and result, without signing in. Run tutorial copies the workflow into your account, and copying is free. See Tutorials and templates for where tutorials live in the app.

To change the look, choose another option in a picker, or connect a different picker to the Cinematography input. The Lighting, Color / Look, Style and Lens pages show every option with a picture.

Frequently asked questions

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Pickers set camera, lighting, mood, style, subjects and motion without rewriting prompts. See how they work, how to combine them and where to connect them.

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Style

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On this page

The original image
How each edit is connected
Five looks, five choices
What changed and what stayed
Two edits without a picker
What it costs
Try it