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title: "When OpenAI image edits drift, can I preserve the original composition?"  
description: "When OpenAI image edits drift, can I preserve the original composition?"  
author: "Waldemar Thiessen"  
published: 2026-10-15  
updated: 2026-10-15  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162383/when-openai-image-edits-drift-can-i-preserve-the-original-composition  
category: "AI Image Editing"  
tags: ["OpenAI", "Image editing", "generative ai"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# When OpenAI image edits drift, can I preserve the original composition?

I’m using OpenAI’s image editing to make small changes to existing images, but sometimes an edit changes more than the detail I asked about. For example, changing an object’s color can also shift its position or alter the background.

Have you found a reliable way to **preserve the original composition** across edits? I’m curious whether the wording of the prompt makes a real difference, or if some amount of visual drift is just expected.


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