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Can I edit an earlier version instead of the latest one?

Yes, in tools that support branching: you select the earlier version and ask for a different change, and the later versions stay as they were. The result starts a separate line of edits. ImageQuarry lets you branch from an earlier version.

This is the fix for a sequence of edits that went in the wrong direction. Instead of undoing three changes one by one, you go back to the last version you liked and give a new instruction from there.

OpenAI's prompting guide describes the basic loop: pass the previous output as the next edit input, request one change, and repeat the details to preserve. Editing an earlier version is the same loop, started from a different image.

ImageQuarry keeps the later versions too, so you can compare both lines of edits before you choose one to download.

Sources: OpenAI image prompting guide; ImageQuarry homepage. Checked October 20, 2026.

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Last reviewed October 20, 2026 by ImageQuarry

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