{"id":"vis-re-headshot-background-only","audience":"real-estate","category":"image-video","track":"visual","technique":"constraints","title":"Change only the background of your own headshot","free":false,"task":"You want ChatGPT to update the background of your own agent headshot for your website. Get Claude to write the edit request as exactly 4 numbered instructions, plain text, under 80 words. Instruction 1 says not to change your face, skin, hair, body shape or clothes. The new background is a softly blurred bright office in your brand teal, given as hex #2A7F7F. Instruction 4 keeps the same square 1:1 crop and says to add nothing else.","materialLabel":"The brief (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Headshot update - notes to myself\n\nCurrent photo: me in a navy blazer and white blouse, shoulders up, square crop. Background is a gray wall with a light switch showing behind my left shoulder. Taken in 2025.\n\nWhat I want: a softly blurred, bright, modern office background, a few green plants, in my brand teal #2A7F7F so it matches the website.\n\nWhat my friend suggested:\n- \"Have the AI smooth your skin and take off 10 years, everyone does it.\"\n- \"Make you slimmer, it's just a website.\"\n- \"Swap the blazer for a teal one so it matches.\"\n- \"Put a SOLD sign next to you.\"\n\nThe website template shows headshots as a square. My face needs to look like me when clients meet me in person.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":4},{"type":"maxWords","max":80},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Taking the friend's advice","why":"The AI smooths, slims and restyles you, so clients won't recognize you.","fix":"Start with: \"1. Do not change my face, skin, hair, body shape or clothes.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Vague background","why":"\"Make the background nicer\" gives a random scene.","fix":"Add: \"Softly blurred bright office, teal #2A7F7F.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Letting the crop drift","why":"Edit tools reframe the shot or add props like a SOLD sign.","fix":"End with: \"4. Keep the same square 1:1 crop and add nothing else.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Paragraph with headings","why":"The AI writes one long styled request with tips.","fix":"Add: \"Exactly 4 numbered instructions, plain text, each under 20 words.\"","checks":["numberedItems","plainText","maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Sets the number of steps","patterns":["\\b(4|four)\\b.{0,20}(numbered|instructions|steps)"]},{"label":"Describes the background","patterns":["blur","#2A7F7F","office"]},{"label":"Protects your face","patterns":["(face|skin|body|hair)","don'?t change|do not change"]},{"label":"Keeps the crop","patterns":["1\\s*:\\s*1","square"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain text"]}],"hint":"An agent headshot should look like the person clients will meet. Say what changes, and list everything that must stay the same.","rubricLabels":["Describes the new background as a softly blurred bright office and gives the hex code #2A7F7F","The first numbered instruction says not to change the face, skin, hair, body shape or clothes","The last numbered instruction says to keep the same square 1:1 crop and add nothing else (no sign, text or props)"]}