Keep the reference's important visual relationships, but rewrite its layout for the new aspect ratio. A landscape prompt that places three subjects across a broad horizon can conflict with a narrow portrait canvas. Simply adding “vertical” does not decide what moves, what gets smaller and what must be omitted. Choose the focal subject and rebuild the arrangement around the intended destination.
Separate style from space
Lighting, palette and material treatment may transfer without preserving the same positions. The width of the visible setting, the number of subjects and the location of copy space may need to change. List these categories separately before editing the reverse-prompt result so a layout revision does not accidentally remove the desired style.
Do not treat a reverse prompt as the original creator's exact recipe. It is an interpretation of visible content. When the reference is already a crop, even its implied off-screen space is uncertain. The new composition is your design decision, not recovered information about a larger hidden original.
A landscape-to-portrait exercise
Fictional example: a wide image places one performer on the left, a stage in the center and decorative stars on the right. The new poster is vertical. The performer becomes the upper focal point, the stage is simplified below and the stars frame the sides. This is a proposed recomposition, not a reproduced campaign or tested generation.
The original left-to-right order is no longer the best organizing principle. Keeping every object at the same relative size would either crop the performer or make all elements too small. Decide what the poster is for before deciding how much of the reference to retain.
Make a priority list
| Reference element | New-format decision |
|---|---|
| Main person | Preserve identity and a readable face crop |
| Wide setting | Simplify or extend deliberately |
| Decorative objects | Reposition if their original spacing no longer fits |
| Text area | Reserve a usable region for final exact type |
| Background style | Retain the desired color and texture relationships |
If the brief requires several equal-priority people, a narrow single image may not be appropriate. Consider a different layout or multiple cards rather than shrinking everyone until the faces become unreadable. The target format can change the design, not just the crop.
Use the extracted description as a starting point
In Imagild's Reverse Prompt workspace, analyze an authorized reference, then edit the descriptive result for the intended image or video workflow. Match the output format using the controls actually offered by the generation tool. Remove spatial instructions that conflict with the selected canvas rather than repeating contradictory width and orientation requests.
For comparison, Photoroom's official prompt guidance discusses composition and the relationship between text and settings. Its available controls are specific to Photoroom; they do not establish Imagild features. Photoroom prompt guidance.
Review the new image as a new composition
Compare the intended priorities, not only visual similarity to the wide reference. Is the face readable? Is the reserved text space usable? Did the new format change a prop's meaning or make the scene implausible? A successful adaptation may differ visibly from the original because it solves a different layout problem.
Keep the reference and the revised brief together so a later retake does not revert to the wide arrangement. Exact typography, production margins and platform-specific overlays may still require external layout work.
Should I crop the reference before analyzing it?
You can if the crop represents the part you want to study. Keep an uncropped authorized version for context and note what was removed. Cropping does not solve the new composition automatically.
Will “same scene, vertical” preserve everything?
It may request mutually incompatible constraints. State which relationships matter and which elements can move or disappear. There is no guarantee that every object from a wide scene fits a narrow format.