AI Tool of the Week: this ChatGPT feature lets you point, sketch and edit images

Summary

ChatGPT Images 2.5 lets you point at an image, sketch a change and make repeated edits without earlier fixes quietly getting undone.

The AI capability we unlocked today is: ChatGPT Images 2.5

What problem does it solve?

You need to make a small change to an image. Move the bottle. Soften the shadow. Make the logo blue. Sounds simple, except AI image editors have traditionally made you describe exactly what you mean.

That gets harder when an image has several similar objects. Tell the AI to "move the bottle" and it has to guess which bottle you mean. Then comes the bigger headache: review rounds. Make three small changes in sequence and a later edit can quietly alter something you had already approved.

ChatGPT Images 2.5 changes what you can point to, not just what you can say. Click the exact spot in the image, type a short instruction such as "remove this" or "make it blue", and send it. You can also draw a rough sketch when words would take a paragraph to explain. The result is more precise editing across multiple rounds, without earlier fixes quietly drifting.

How to access?

Live now for all ChatGPT tiers.

What can it do?

• Point, don't describe: click the exact spot on the image and type a short note there, no locating paragraph required
• Sketch instead of type: draw a rough shape as a visual instruction when words would be ambiguous
• Survive review rounds: make repeated small revisions without earlier fixes quietly unraveling

Example

A brand manager is three rounds into a product ad the client keeps sending small notes on.

What makes ChatGPT Images 2.5 special?

• Click plus note, not a thread: one click-and-type on the exact spot replaces guessing which "bottle" the model meant from words alone
• Edits that hold: round four of feedback no longer undoes round two's approved fix
• Sketch as input: a rough drawn shape replaces several sentences of spatial description

Jaspreet Bindra is co-founder and CEO, and Anuj Magazine is co-founder, of AI&Beyond.

Jaspreet Bindra