# Focus in your prompt

> Point at a focus from your words — type # and choose it by the name you gave it — how the mention looks, renaming and deleting, and examples.

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.

Source: https://routix.studio/help/focus/focus-in-your-prompt · Updated 2026-10-24