How to make space between two people in a photo without redrawing them
Tell Vizard Agent you want the two people moved apart and the photograph kept as authentic as possible. It slides the real halves of the image apart with their own pixels, rebuilds only the narrow strip that opens up between them, compares a plain join against a blended one, and gives you two gap widths to choose from.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Tell Vizard Agent what you want to keep, not only what you want changed. "Keep as much of the original image authentic" is the instruction that rules out the easy answer: cut them out, generate a new scene and place them in it. That produces a picture that is no longer a photograph of that moment.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Moving the real halves apart means the people, their clothes and the light on them stay the original photograph. Only a narrow strip of background is new, and background is the easiest thing to rebuild convincingly. The job was a podcast thumbnail with two guests too close for a title, and earlier attempts had cut both of them out. In the session behind this article it:
- Measured how closely a clean plate matched the original, moved the two halves apart using the photograph's own pixels and inspected the seams where they met the gap.
- Slid the halves apart with a blended middle strip and compared the plain join against the blended one.
- Rendered the layout into the new gap to see it in use, and softened the grade so the rebuilt strip matched its neighbours.
- Rebuilt the centre strip two different ways and tried a minimal-invention version that adds as little as possible.
- Zoomed into the retouched areas, checked a suspicious mark at full resolution, rendered both gap widths side by side and exported the retouched photographs.
When does this not work well?
The gap has to be fillable in the first place. Two people overlapping each other, or a busy patterned background running behind them, gives Vizard Agent a pattern to continue across the new strip that will not survive close inspection at full size. Low-resolution photos show the retouching, and very large gaps mean more invention and more risk.
Common questions
Will it cut them out? Only if you want. Vizard Agent prefers to keep the photo intact.
Can I choose the width? Yes. Vizard Agent renders two and you pick.
Will the seam show? Vizard Agent checks at full resolution and at thumbnail size.