Clear crowds from a beach photo

This prompt removes the crowds, umbrellas and litter from a beach photo and rebuilds clean sand and waves, leaving the person or people you name as the only subject.

photo-empty-beach-cleanup — gemini — 33 words

Remove the crowds of people, umbrellas and litter from this beach photo, leaving [ONE PERSON: ME] as the only subject. Rebuild clean sand and waves naturally.

Keep the sky, sea and lighting unchanged.

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Ask to keep the footprints and a few natural traces for realism.

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What you will get

Your beach photo with crowds, umbrellas and litter removed, you as the only subject, clean sand and waves rebuilt naturally, and the sky, sea and lighting unchanged.

Why it works

Removing crowds means the AI has to rebuild what was hidden, so the prompt asks for clean sand and waves made naturally. Keeping the sky, sea and light unchanged ties the new parts to the original. You stay as the only subject, and a few footprints, as the tip says, keep it believable.

Common mistake

Shadows or footprints from the removed crowd stay behind.

Fix: Add “remove shadows and footprints made by the removed people, keep a few natural marks near me”, as the tip suggests.

Also watch for

The sand has a copy-pasted, repeating texture. Ask for “natural sand with varied ripples and a few small shells, no repeating patches”.
The waterline bends where people were removed. Say “keep the horizon and the waterline straight and continuous across the whole photo”.

Try a variation: two people

Keep a friend too by changing the first line to “leaving me and my friend in the blue shirt as the only subjects”. Describe both clearly, or one of you may be removed.

Still not right? Reply with this

Keep everything else exactly as in the original photo. Only change what I asked for.