{"id":"vis-re-virtual-staging-limits","audience":"real-estate","category":"image-video","track":"visual","technique":"constraints","title":"Request virtual staging that only adds furniture","free":false,"task":"You're listing an empty condo and want ChatGPT to virtually stage the living room photo. Get Claude to write the edit request as exactly 5 numbered instructions, plain text, under 120 words. Instruction 1 keeps the framing (same angle, 4:3, no crop). The middle ones name the furniture to add in the chosen style and say not to change the walls, floors, windows or the view. Instruction 5 says to keep the radiator and the ceiling water stain fully visible.","materialLabel":"The brief (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Unit 4B, 88 Clement Street - listing photos\n\nPhoto to stage: living room, shot from the doorway, 4:3. Empty room, light gray walls, oak floors, two tall windows on the left, view of a brick building across the street. Old cast-iron radiator under the windows. Small water stain on the ceiling near the right corner (seller is disclosing it; repair scheduled after closing).\n\nStaging style the seller picked: warm mid-century: a walnut sofa with oatmeal cushions, a round walnut coffee table, a jute rug, one floor lamp, a fiddle-leaf fig plant.\n\nSeller's ideas:\n- \"Can the AI swap the brick-wall view for a park view?\"\n- \"Make the floors look newer, they're scratched.\"\n- \"Put the plant in front of the radiator so you don't see it.\"\n- \"Brighten the walls to white.\"\n\nBrokerage note: our listings say \"virtually staged\" under every staged photo.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":5},{"type":"maxWords","max":120},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Following the seller's edits","why":"The AI swaps the view, refinishes the floors and whitens the walls, which misrepresents the unit.","fix":"Add: \"Don't change walls, floors, windows or the view.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Hiding flaws with furniture","why":"The AI puts the plant in front of the radiator and drifts toward covering the stain.","fix":"End with: \"5. Keep the radiator and ceiling stain fully visible.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Vague staging","why":"\"Add modern furniture\" gives random pieces in a random style.","fix":"List the pieces: \"walnut sofa, round coffee table, jute rug, floor lamp, fig plant.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Framing as an afterthought","why":"Edit tools crop or reframe first, so the framing rule belongs at the top.","fix":"Start with: \"1. Keep the same angle and 4:3 framing; no cropping.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Paragraphs and headings","why":"The AI writes one long styled request, hard to check.","fix":"Add: \"Exactly 5 numbered instructions, plain text, each under 25 words.\"","checks":["numberedItems","plainText","maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Sets the number of steps","patterns":["\\b(5|five)\\b.{0,20}(numbered|instructions|steps)"]},{"label":"Names the furniture","patterns":["walnut","jute","sofa"]},{"label":"Keeps the room as is","patterns":["(walls|floors|windows|view)","don'?t change"]},{"label":"Keeps flaws visible","patterns":["radiator","stain"]},{"label":"Keeps the framing","patterns":["4\\s*:\\s*3","no crop"]}],"hint":"Virtual staging is fine; changing the room is not. List what to add, and say plainly what must stay exactly as it is.","rubricLabels":["The first numbered instruction says to keep the same camera angle and 4:3 framing with no cropping","Names the furniture (walnut sofa, round walnut coffee table, jute rug, floor lamp, fiddle-leaf fig) and says not to change the walls, floors, windows or the view","The last numbered instruction says to keep the radiator and the ceiling water stain fully visible (nothing placed in front of them)"]}