Fix what came out wrong

A generation can be right in almost every way and still have one thing wrong: a hand with too many fingers, eyes that do not quite line up, or a picture that is a little soft. Generating again might fix it and would change everything else. Refine fixes that one thing and keeps the rest.

Add an image, then pick a preset or write the improvement in your own words. Refine applies it while the subject, pose, lighting, style, and background stay as they were. The result keeps the shape of your image, so it drops straight back into whatever you were making.

Refine is the quick fix. It needs no mask: you name the problem, and the model finds where it is. When you want to choose exactly which part of the picture changes, Inpaint lets you paint over it.

Fix Hands corrects the problems hands often have in generated images: extra or missing fingers, fingers that merge or bend the wrong way, and hands that look boneless. Fix Eyes makes eyes look aligned, focused, and detailed. Add Detail sharpens texture across a soft image, such as fabric, hair, skin, and surfaces, without changing what is in it.

Use one preset per run. When a picture has more than one problem, fix the most visible one first, then run Refine again on the result.

• Fix Hands: extra, missing, or bent fingers.
• Fix Eyes: eyes that do not line up or look blurry.
• Add Detail: soft texture across the whole image.

When the presets do not cover the problem, describe it in one plain sentence: "make the smile softer", "straighten the glasses", "make the jacket black leather". Name the thing and the change. Short instructions work best, because the rest of the image already says everything else.

Describe the improvement, not the whole picture. A full description of the scene can lead the model to change more than you asked for.

• "Make the fingers hold the cup naturally."
• "Add texture to the wool sweater."
• "Make the eyes look at the camera."

Refine sits between generating and finishing. Generate the image, refine what came out wrong, retouch the skin with the Skin Enhancer if it looks airbrushed, and upscale last with the Image Enhancer. Upscaling first would only enlarge the mistake along with everything else.

Every result lands in History. Keep the best version and refine it again when you need to; each run starts from the image you give it.

Refine changes details, not the idea of a picture. To change a whole region, such as the background or an object, mask it in Inpaint. To change the whole image from a prompt, such as a new style or setting, use the AI image editor. To change the light, use Relight.

If a fix does not take, try another model from the Model menu. Models differ in how closely they keep the original, and a second model often gets a stubborn hand right.

Refine is not a way to change who is in the picture, either. To put a different face or a different person in it, use Face Swap or Character Swap.

Generated images share a handful of familiar flaws. Hands are the best known: a sixth finger, a thumb on the wrong side, or fingers that melt into a cup. Eyes come next: a pupil a little off center, irises of two sizes, or a gaze that points nowhere. Small text, jewelry, teeth, and the places where two things touch, such as a hand on a railing, are other common trouble spots.

Look over every image you plan to keep at full size before you share it, and run Refine on what stands out. One quick pass on the most visible flaw usually does more for a picture than generating a dozen new versions and hoping one comes out clean.

Photos gain too. A slightly soft phone shot can get crisper texture with Add Detail before you print it or post it, and a short instruction can tidy a small distraction, such as "remove the stray hair over the eye".