Four seasons from one venue photo: four Ideogram 4.5 edits for $0.30

To make four seasonal versions of one venue photo, run four separate edits of the same source to ideogram/ideogram-v4.5, each with a prompt that names one season and a preserve list. At Sume's medium price of $0.075 per image that is $0.30 per venue, or $7.50 for 25 venues. Each call is independent, so the source stays the same and drift cannot compound across seasons.

Ideogram says 4.5 is its most precise edit model and that it reduces drift across multi-turn edits. For seasons you do not need multi-turn at all: always start from the original photo.

Start from the original every time

The tempting workflow is summer to autumn to winter, each edit feeding the next. That is a chain, and every link changes a few pixels you did not ask about. Instead send the same original photo as the first input_references entry in four calls. If the original is a daytime summer shot, the spring and autumn calls change foliage colour, and the winter call adds snow and bare branches.

Leave aspect_ratio out so each edit keeps the source geometry. Do not send output_format; Ideogram 4.5 on Sume does not accept it. Name your output files with the venue id and the season so a failed run can be resumed without redoing the seasons that already finished, and so the four files sort together in a folder.

Season prompts

Write each prompt as a short change list followed by what stays. Spring: fresh green leaves, blossom on the trees, soft light. Summer: full green canopy, clear blue sky. Autumn: orange and red foliage, a few leaves on the ground. Winter: snow on roofs and ground, bare branches, cold light, lit windows. For every season add: same building, camera angle, signage, furniture and people count.

• Keep the sun position consistent: a winter edit with long shadows on a noon photo looks wrong.
• Name the season and two or three visible cues, not a mood.
• Keep the preserve list identical in all four prompts.
• Add lit windows in winter so the venue does not look closed.
• Leave out any people or vehicles unless they are in the source.

Cost

All four editions of one venue use four separate billed jobs. A failed job is not billed; a completed job is billed even if you reject it.

Handling people and signs

Venue photos often include signs with the venue name and opening hours, and events with people. In a seasonal edit these are the elements most likely to change by accident. If the sign must stay legible, add its exact text to the prompt and check the output letter by letter. If there are people, say that their count, clothing and positions stay the same; winter coats on guests in a summer photo are a common surprise.

If a venue has a garden or a pool, say what each season does to it: a covered pool in winter, empty beds in autumn. Without those lines the model fills the garden with generic scenery that does not match the real layout, and your guests will notice when they arrive.

Review plan

Look at each season for the things a venue cannot fake: signage text, the entrance, the number of windows, a visible capacity or room layout. If a season changes any of those, rerun that one season at high rather than the whole set. For a venue page, publish the original beside the edited versions and say in the caption that the seasonal images are AI edited, since a guest arriving to a different building is a worse outcome than a plain photo.