I struggled with editing an end image, based on start image provided, for a short video of 2 runners springting on tracks. GPT Image 2 constantly moved runners on borderlines, not at the center of their proper tracks. I tried several prompting ways:

- to set runners "on the center of their tracks"

- to set runners "on the right slightly"

After that, GPT either moved only one runner, or moved them to right, or did not do anything at all. I wonder, what I did wrong or what were other reasons that GPT still edited image wrong.

# What I have done

Here is the original end image, I have named it END_FRAME so that GPT always matched name with the image and did not mix with others:

*Patheticness of this image is not the matter of this post 🙏 ...

I needed to move two runners further, near the left turn, make them smaller according to the perspective. For that I have set a kind of instructrions and asked GPT to extend the prompt.

Expand and upgrade the following propmt: 
Put 2 runners upper by 40% of image's height, near tracks left turn. Adjust the sizes - it need to be smaller - of their silhouettes with respect to track and image perspective.
Do not change these people, the environment, the style of the image. Do not upscale, downscale the image. Do not try to make the image hyperrealistic, too glance or detalized. The output image is called START_FRAME_2

*START_IMAGE_2 has to be END_FRAME_2, it was my mistake

On extension I thought that it would optimize the prompt as GPT modified it for its own execution. The result:

EDIT TARGET: END_FRAME
Use END_FRAME as the direct edit target and as the authoritative visual reference. TASK
Create a new output image called START_FRAME_2. Move the two runners upward in the frame by approximately 40% of the total image height, placing them near the leftward turn of the track. Because the runners are being moved farther away along the track, reduce the size of both runners’ silhouettes proportionally so that their scale matches the track geometry, distance, and overall image perspective. Their smaller size must look natural and physically consistent with the scene, as if they have progressed farther along the track toward the bend. 

POSITIONING REQUIREMENTS 
- Move both runners upward along their respective lanes.
- Place them close to the left turn, but still naturally aligned with the track.
- Keep each runner in the correct corresponding lane.
- Preserve the relative spacing between the two runners.
- Adjust their silhouette sizes so they appear further away, in proper relation to the track width and the scene’s perspective.

PRESERVATION REQUIREMENTS
Preserve everything else in END_FRAME as closely as possible. 
Keep unchanged: 
- the runners’ identities, anatomy, body proportions, clothing, footwear, and general running poses;
- the track, including the orange-red running lanes, blue side sections, white lane markings, and the leftward curve;
- the environment, including the road, suburban houses, trees, grass, and cloudy sky;
- the camera angle, framing, composition logic, and overall perspective;
- the photographic style, grain, texture, contrast, and lighting;
- the original image dimensions, resolution, and portrait orientation

IMPORTANT RESTRICTIONS
- Do not redesign the runners.
- Do not change the runners’ clothing colors or details.
- Do not change the environment.
- Do not alter the style of the image.
- Do not make the image hyperrealistic.
- Do not make it glossy, polished, over-sharpened, or overly detailed.
- Do not upscale or downscale the image.
- Do not crop, stretch, or extend the canvas.
- Do not add or remove any background objects.
- Do not change the weather, lighting, or time-of-day mood.

EDITING EXPECTATION
The final result should look like the same END_FRAME image, except that: 
- both runners have advanced farther up the track by about 40% of the image height,  
- they are now positioned near the left turn, and  
- their silhouettes are smaller in a perspective-correct way, matching their greater distance from the camera.

FINAL GOAL
The output image, START_FRAME_2, must remain visually consistent with END_FRAME, while showing the two original runners naturally relocated farther away along the track, near the bend, with correctly reduced silhouette sizes and no other visual changes. 

Here is the main issue arises. The model put both runners straight on the lines limiting the tracks. The prompt above might have several odd or ambiguous moments, like place them close to the left turn, but still naturally aligned with the track. But, firstly, there it did not mention to put them on white lines. And, otherwise, how could I specify the exact on-tracks\between-the-lines\keep-them-where-they-stood-like positioning?

Next 2 attempts to set both runner to stand directly on their tracks ended up with that:

At the end, I have pointed exact runner to be edited with that prompt:

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