Single-Reference Editing

Single-reference editing is the most common workflow: you provide one input image and describe the changes you want. FLUX.2 understands the context of your image and applies edits while preserving what you didn’t ask to change.

Refer to the Image Editing Overview for core concepts before diving into specific use cases.

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Use Cases

Single-reference editing covers a wide range of creative and professional tasks. Below are the most common categories with real prompt examples.

Background Replacement

Change or replace the background of your image while keeping the subject intact.

Product on new background

Output: bottle in strawberries on white background

a professional high end product shot of this bottle in a pile of fresh wet strawberries on white background, studio lighting

Scene replacement

Output: subject in cozy home environment

Replace the background with a warm cozy home environment.

Style Transfer

Transform the visual style or medium of an image — from illustration to photorealism, or from photo to painting.

Photo to oil painting

Turn the image into an oil painting with thick, textured brushstrokes

Illustration to photorealism

Transform the architectural illustration from image 1 into a fully realistic house, natural lighting, real textures for walls windows and roof, realistic landscaping around the house, accurate shadows, real materials such as wood stone and glass, high resolution photorealism, clean perspective, keep the proportions and layout exactly as in the illustration while turning every element into a believable real world version.

Reskin to mountain vista

Reskin this into a realistic mountain vista

Object Manipulation

Add, remove, or replace objects in a scene. Be specific about what should change and what should stay.

Remove object

Remove all of the sprinkles while keeping the rest of the image unchanged

Replace object

Output: flower replaced with lemon slice

Replace the flower in image 1 with a slice of lemon

Add object

Add small goblins climbing the right wall of the gorge

Replace subject

Replace the DJ with a polar bear without headphones

Selective replacement

Output: cherries replaced with sprinkles

Replace the cherries in the right-most jar with multi-colored sprinkles. Change nothing else

Remove vegetation

Remove all vegetation moss and greenery from the statues. Keep only the original stone structure with no plants no moss no algae no green tint. Reveal the raw stone texture with visible small cracks and natural erosion.

Object swap — bike to horse

Replace the bike with a rearing black horse

Element replacement — feathers to petals

Replace all the feathers with rose petals

Color & Material Changes

Recolor specific elements or transform materials — FLUX.2 supports hex color codes for precision.

Recolor with hex codes

Change the cow's white fur to the color #8bc4bb and its black spots to #de4528

Material transformation — silver

The butterfly is now made of shiny silver

Material transformation — ice

Turn the butterfly into one sculpted from clear ice, with tiny droplets forming across its frozen surface. Create a refined, realistic texture, preserving the original style of the image

Lighting, Weather & Season Changes

Shift the time of day, season, or weather conditions with a simple instruction.

Season change — winter

Change this to Winter

Time of day — night

Change it to Night

Lighting and color mood

Fix the lighting and make the entire scene appear in warm autumn colors with sunlight

Text Editing

Add, replace, or modify text within images — from simple swaps to full ad layouts.

Simple text replacement

Change the text to Flux.2

Neon sign text

Change the text on the neon sign to 'zum Schlappen'

Sign replacement + scene edit

Replace the shop sign with a red-orange neon sign that says 'Night Bloom', and add a green traffic light on the left side of the frame.

Ad creation with text overlay

Use this image to create an ad. Add the text 'Black Friday hasta -50%' on the right side, making sure it does not overlay the clothes. Add a call-to-action button that says 'Take me there'

Virtual Try-On & Clothing

Change outfits, add accessories, or adjust clothing colors — great for fashion and e-commerce.

Outfit change

Change the woman's outfit to a bold fuchsia pink dress against a green studio gradient background.

Add accessories with hex colors

Output: woman with fluffy jacket and hat

Add a short fluffy jacket on her colored #778899, and a hat in the same fluffy style, colored #98AFC7. Keep her pose

Dress recoloring with detail preservation

Change the color of the woman's lace wedding dress to sky blue (light blue, #87CEEB), while keeping all lace embroidery details white and fully visible. Preserve the original fabric texture, transparency, patterns, highlights, and natural folds.

Pose & Expression Changes

Adjust gaze direction, body pose, or facial expressions of subjects.

Eye/detail correction

Open the owl's eyes, making them look natural.

Gaze direction

The woman is now looking at the camera

Pose change

Change the woman's pose to a model-style pose.

Writing Effective Single-Reference Prompts

Be specific about what changes and explicit about what should stay the same. The more precise your instruction, the better the result.

Good prompts

“Change the shirt color to red”
“Replace the background with a sunset beach”
“Turn this into an oil painting”
“Add snow to the scene, keep everything else unchanged”

Avoid

“Make it better”
“Improve the lighting”
“Make it more professional”
“Fix the image”

Image Generation with FLUX

Image Editing with FLUX

Use Cases with FLUX

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