How to Use Photo Edit by Chat in MyEdit

Q: What makes a prompt work better?

Name the subject and the change. Change lavenders to roses gets much further than make it prettier . Ask for one thing at a time, then send a second line for the next change. If the model keeps altering something you wanted left alone, use Select Area and brush only the part that should change.

Q: Can I change one part of the photo without touching the rest?

That is what Select Area is for. Switch it on, paint over the region with the Brush , and your next line is applied only inside the area you covered. The Eraser tidies up the edges of your selection and the slider changes how thick the brush is, so you can work loosely on a sky or carefully around a face.

Photo editing as a chat: type a change, watch it happen, then stack the next one on top.

Updated Aug. 17, 2026 · 6 min read

In a hurry? Use the Photo Edit by Chat quick guide instead.

MyEdit's Photo Edit by Chat turns photo editing into a conversation: you say what should be different, in ordinary words, and it redraws the picture in a browser tab with nothing to install. Each edit lands on top of the last, so one photo can go through several rounds, and Select Area narrows the next change to one part of the frame instead of the whole picture.

Before

The photo we started with, a woman in a green dress in a field of purple lavender at sunset — The photo we started with, straight off a camera.

After

⚡ Quick Answer: How to Use Photo Edit by Chat in 5 Steps

Open Photo Edit by Chat in MyEdit under Image Tools and load your photo.
Choose an engine from the Select model list.
Type the change you want in Describe your edits, then press send.
Flip between your new version and Original in the strip under the canvas.
Click Select Area to brush over one spot, keep chatting, then hit download.

Steps to Use Photo Edit by Chat

Step 1: Open Photo Edit by Chat and Drop In a Photo

This one opens straight into an editing room rather than a settings form, so there is very little to set up before you start playing. Find it under Image Tools in MyEdit's top menu, or go to the tool page and click Start Editing, then drop in the photo you want to work on. Landed here with the wrong picture open? Replace Image at the top swaps it out without losing anything. Your photo sits on the canvas in the middle and every instruction you type lives in the panel on the left.

Photo Edit by Chat open in MyEdit with the Image Tools menu and the Replace Image button highlighted — Image Tools is how you get here. Replace Image is how you change your mind about the photo.

Step 2: Pick the Model That Does the Drawing

Before you type anything, it helps to know who is holding the brush. Open Select model at the top of the left panel and a list drops down, the featured options first and the rest under MORE MODELS, each with one line saying what it is built for. Pick on that line rather than on the name.

What you're editing	Look for the option whose line mentions
Text in the image, or fine photographic detail	sharp text, pixel accuracy, and photorealistic detail
A small, exact change with nothing else moving	precise pixel-level editing
A whole scene relit or restaged	cinematic edits with narrative depth and scene consistency
A plainly worded request you want followed literally	accurate prompt understanding

The Select model dropdown open in Photo Edit by Chat, listing image models with a one-line description each — Every option carries a note on what it is good at, so you can choose by the description rather than the name.

Step 3: Write Your First Prompt

This is the part that feels least like editing software. Click into Describe your edits at the bottom of the left panel and write the change the way you would say it out loud. We typed Change lavenders to roses: four words, no sliders, no selection. Name the thing and name what should happen to it, and keep it to one change per line, since a short specific sentence lands much closer than a paragraph of adjectives. The counter tells you how much room is left, the cost of one generation sits to the left of the button, and the send arrow lights up as soon as there is something to run.

The Describe your edits box with Change lavenders to roses typed in and the send arrow active — Four words typed into Describe your edits, and the send arrow ready to go.

Step 4: Flip Between Your Versions

Nothing gets painted over your photo. The new version arrives as its own thumbnail in the strip under the canvas, sitting next to Original, and it turns up again in the left panel underneath the line that produced it, so the panel slowly becomes a record of what you asked for. Click between the two thumbnails to see each one full size. It is worth doing before you go any further, because switching back and forth is the quickest way to check that the light and the skin tones survived. Ours came back with the field in full bloom and the sunset flare exactly where it started.

The finished roses version on the canvas, with the version strip under it and the same result shown in the left panel — Original on the left of the strip, the new version beside it, and the same image logged in the panel.

Step 5: Brush Over One Spot with Select Area

Sometimes you only want one thing touched, and wording alone is not enough to keep the model away from the rest of the frame. Click Select Area and a small toolbar appears under the prompt box: Brush to paint the region you want redrawn, Eraser to take back a slip, and a slider to resize the brush. We painted over the hat, then asked for a black hat with a rose on it. Everything outside the red area is left alone, which makes this the safe way to change one face, one sky, or one object in a busy photo.

Select Area switched on with the Brush, Eraser and size slider showing, and a red mask painted over the hat — The red area is what we brushed. Only that part gets redrawn.

The Result

Every line you send builds on the one before it, and the whole run stays in the panel on the left: your words, the version they produced, then the next line underneath. Two sentences got us here, Change lavenders to roses and change to black hat with rose, and nothing in between had to be undone. When a version is the one you want, click the download button in the corner of the canvas to save it. The earlier versions all stay in the strip, so keeping one never costs you the others.

The finished photo with a black hat and roses, both prompts visible in the history panel and the download button highlighted — Both prompts sit in the history on the left. The download button saves whichever version is on the canvas.

That is one photo, two sentences, and no tool to learn. Start a Chat Edit →

FAQ About Photo Edit by Chat

1. Do I need to install anything to use Photo Edit by Chat?

No. It runs inside MyEdit in a browser tab, on a laptop or a phone, so there is nothing to download and nothing to keep updated. You do need to be signed in, and each generation draws on your MyEdit credits, with the cost shown next to the prompt box before you run anything.

2. What makes a prompt work better?

Name the subject and the change. Change lavenders to roses gets much further than make it prettier.
Ask for one thing at a time, then send a second line for the next change.
If the model keeps altering something you wanted left alone, use Select Area and brush only the part that should change.

3. Can I change one part of the photo without touching the rest?

That is what Select Area is for. Switch it on, paint over the region with the Brush, and your next line is applied only inside the area you covered. The Eraser tidies up the edges of your selection and the slider changes how thick the brush is, so you can work loosely on a sky or carefully around a face.

4. Where do my earlier versions go?

They stay right where you can reach them. The photo you brought in keeps its place in the strip under the canvas, labeled Original, and every version you generate is added beside it rather than on top of it. Click back to any of them to see it full size, and the left panel keeps the line you typed next to each one so you can tell them apart.