Fixing an Illustration That Came Out Wrong

Start by Reverting — It Is Free

Every illustration you replace is kept. Under the page image, open Previous versions (marked Revert free) and click any earlier version to put it back. Reverting never costs credits, and the same works on the front and back cover.

Do this first. You get the old image back while you work out what to change, and nothing is lost either way.

Your First Redraw of a Page Is Free

Each page and cover has one free re-roll. When you mark an already-illustrated page for redraw, the Create Images button shows a green free badge counting how many of the images in that run cost nothing.

So a single "that is not what I meant" redraw is usually free. It is worth fixing the cause first anyway — a redraw with nothing changed gives you a different interpretation of the same instructions, not a correction.

Find the Cause

These four causes cover most illustrations that come out wrong.

1. The prompt no longer matches the page

Each page has a Prompt — the scene description the illustration is drawn from. It is stored separately from your story text, so rewriting the text does not update it.

If you have edited the page since the prompt was written, a Prompt out of sync badge appears. Open the prompt panel and click Generate prompt to rewrite it from the current text, or edit the prompt yourself to describe exactly what should be in the picture.

This is the most common reason an illustration shows the wrong thing — the image is a faithful drawing of an out-of-date description.

2. Someone is missing, or someone extra showed up

Illustrations draw only the characters assigned to that page under Characters in Scene.

• Someone your text names who is not assigned will not appear in the artwork at all
• A character who is assigned but never mentioned in the text will still be drawn

That combination is why a page can end up showing the right setting with the wrong cast. Check the roster against what the page actually says, then add or remove characters before redrawing.

3. The same character looks different from page to page

Open the character's profile and expand Fine-tune appearance. Anything left unset — Hair color, Hair tone, Hair length, Facial hair, Eye color, Build — is re-interpreted on each page, so it can shift between spreads.

Setting those values anchors them across the whole book. It is worth doing before you illustrate a batch of pages rather than after.

One thing to know: a character is shared across all your books, so changing their appearance changes every story they appear in.

For more on what drives likeness in the first place, see Character Consistency.

4. Clothing changes between pages

Under Outfit consistency you can choose:

• Maintain — the same clothing on every page
• Adapt to scene — outfits suit the moment

If a character changes clothes when you did not want them to, switch to Maintain.

Then Redraw

Once you have fixed the cause, open the page's menu and choose Mark for redraw, then click Create Images. Only the pages you marked are redrawn — the rest of the book is untouched.

If the new version is worse than what you had, revert to a previous one. That stays free however many times you do it.

What a Redraw Will Not Change

• Interpretation, not reproduction — illustrations are a stylized drawing, not a photographic copy of a source photo
• Small variation between pages — some difference is normal in an illustrated book and is part of the hand-drawn feel
• Anything the prompt does not say — if a detail matters, put it in the prompt rather than hoping it carries over from the page text

Still Not Right?

If you have updated the prompt and the cast and the illustration is still wrong — or something looks broken rather than just not to your taste — reach out from the assistant panel in the editor, or from the support page. Include the story link and which page, and we can look at what was actually generated.