Focus in your prompt

A focus shows Optic where. Your words say what happens there. You connect the two with a mention.

#Mention a focus

1. Confirm the range and apply at least one focus.
2. In the words box, type # at the start or after a space. Your focuses opens and lists each focus by the name you gave it — "girl", "red car", "the sign" — with its number, its colour and its moment. A focus you have not named is listed as Focus 1, Focus 2 and so on.
3. Keep typing to find one by its name or its number — #gir finds the focus named "girl". Choose it with the mouse, or with the arrow keys and Enter.

The mention shows as one piece — a small eye in the focus's colour and its label. Backspace removes it whole. If you write or paste a mention by hand, #Focus 1 points at focus number 1, whatever its name.

#How mentions behave

• Renaming keeps it. Your words hold a focus by its number, and a focus's number never changes — so a mention still points at the same mark after you rename it.
• Deleting removes it. Deleting a focus removes its mentions from your words. Other focuses keep their numbers.
• A number that does not exist stays plain text. Typing #Focus 9 when there is no focus 9 points at nothing — choose from the menu instead.
• Every applied focus goes with your request, mentioned or not. Mentioning is the surest way to say which one a sentence is about.

#Examples

• "Replace #Focus 1 with the person in @Image 1, exactly as the picture shows him."
• "Change the shirt of #Focus 2 to a navy linen shirt. #Focus 1 stays as he is."
• "Remove the logo marked by #Focus 1 from the cap."
• "Turn the car at #Focus 3 into a yellow taxi."

#When your words could mean two subjects

Optic does not guess. If "the man" could be either of two men, mark the one you mean with Focus and mention it — before you press Revise, since that one press pays and starts the work. If Optic still cannot tell which one you mean, it makes nothing and your credits come back.