For clarity, I reaffirm that the editing mask mentioned in my previous post is transparent in the places that look white in the collage; and that it was submitted alongside the input image as the value of the “mask” parameter (the original image being the value of the “image” parameter).
But it’s true that you can get a similar result by painting over the parts that you want changed instead of providing a mask for them. In the collage below, the editing mask from the previous examples was submitted as the value of the “image” parameter, without any editing mask; and the same prompt was used as before. The results look similar to those achieved with the image + editing mask combination in the sense that, in both cases, the model appears not to have tried to imitate the facial features of the original wife (which would have been impossible in this latest case, since the original image was not supplied via the API).
