SozdaiRefine with Text: How to Write Effective Prompts
Refine is the main tool for making targeted edits to a generated card. You describe one change in text, and the AI applies it to the current image. How accurately it understands what you want depends almost entirely on how you phrase the request.
Where to find it
After a successful generation, the refine input appears directly below the card alongside the "Fix (2💎)" button. It works the same way in the step-by-step wizard (step 4) and in Advanced mode.
Your text and the current card are sent to the AI together as a new request. The AI tries to preserve as much of the current result as possible and change only what you described. Each refine costs 2💎 (Flash). You can chain them: each new request builds on the result of the previous one.
A good prompt: one element, one action
The most reliable formula is to name a specific element of the card and say what to do with it.
These two screenshots show how a specific prompt changes a targeted element without touching the rest of the composition. Everything else — background, product placement, feature text — stays intact.
Good examples that work well:
- "Move the logo to the top right corner"
- "Make the background soft blue instead of grey"
- "Remove the text at the bottom of the card"
- "Replace the packaging with a larger box"
- "Make the main headline font bigger"
The underlying principles:
- Name the specific element — not "that thing" but "the logo" / "the QR code" / "the headline" / "the background".
- Name the specific action — not "improve" but "move" / "remove" / "replace" / "recolor".
- One element per refine — if you have five changes, make five separate refine requests. Or, if the list is long, consider whether regenerating from scratch might be faster.
A bad prompt: ambiguity
Here's a real example. The prompt: "Make it bigger".
What the user meant: make the main headline font bigger, because the text on the card is hard to read.
What the AI understood: make the product larger in the composition. The product now takes up more space on the card, and the headline font stayed the same size.
This isn't a mistake on the AI's part. It has no business context — it doesn't know you're selling on a marketplace and worried about text readability. The AI sees the image and the word "bigger" and honestly tries to make something bigger.
How to fix this prompt: "Make the main headline font bigger" or "Increase the headline text size". Now it's unambiguous.
Other common ambiguities
| Vague | Specific |
|---|---|
| "Make it prettier" | "Add soft shadows under the product", "Center-align the text", "Soften the background" |
| "Improve the background" | "Replace the grey background with a white gradient" |
| "Fix the text" | "Remove the typo in the word XYZ" / "Replace the headline with 'YYY'" |
| "Make it brighter" | "Add a bright accent color to the button", "Increase the product contrast" |
| "Make it bigger" | "Make the main headline font bigger" / "Enlarge the QR code at the bottom" |
When refine won't help
Refine handles targeted edits well, but there are changes where it isn't the right tool:
Switching styles entirely — if you want to go from a "catalog" template to a "lifestyle" one, it's better to go back to the wizard and choose a different template or reference photo. Refine won't restructure the whole concept.
Major layout overhaul — if you want to completely rearrange the composition to a different layout, refine will iterate around the edges and won't give a clean result. Better to change the settings and generate fresh.
For these cases, see How to Edit a Generated Card — it covers all three paths.
Chaining refines
Each refine builds on the previous one. This is useful: you can work through small edits one by one, gradually getting to where you want.
But there's a flip side: the further you get from the original, the more "noise" accumulates. By the 5th or 7th iteration you may start seeing artifacts or unexpected changes in parts you didn't ask to touch. If you've hit a dead end, click "Create again" and start fresh.
Related articles: How to Edit a Generated Card · Step-by-step Card Generation · Custom Instructions.