Tidy a cluttered background

This prompt removes the items you list, such as cables, clothes on a chair or bottles, and leaves the rest of the room unchanged.

photo-tidy-messy-background — gemini — 49 words

Tidy the background of this photo. Remove [ITEMS, e.g. cables, clothes on chair, bottles] and leave the rest of the room as it is.

Keep me and all my belongings exactly the same. Fill the cleared areas with realistic walls and floor. Keep the lighting and camera angle unchanged.

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What you will get

Your photo with the items you listed removed, the cleared areas filled with believable wall and floor, and you, your belongings, the lighting and the camera angle left exactly as they were.

Common mistake

A smudge or ghost of the removed item remains.

Fix: Name each item and where it is, such as “the cable on the left wall”. Run it again on the result for stubborn spots.

Also watch for

The filled area does not match the wall pattern. Say “continue the wall texture and the baseboard line through the cleared area”. A plain wall works much better than wallpaper.
It removes things you wanted to keep. Write “keep the laptop, the mug and the plant”, and check small objects on the desk in the result.

Try a variation: tidy for a video call

Ask to “keep everything in the shot within the area a webcam sees, and make the wall behind my head plain and even”. It gives you a clean call background from a real photo.

Still not right? Reply with this

Keep me, the desk and the lighting exactly the same. Remove only the items on the shelf behind me and extend the shelf board where they were.