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Why keep earlier versions of an image?

Because AI edits can change more than you asked for, and a kept version is your fallback, your point of comparison and a place to start a new direction. Nothing you liked is lost to a later change.

OpenAI's image prompting guide says repeated edits "can still change details you intended to preserve", and Google's Gemini documentation calls multi-turn conversation "the recommended way to iterate on images". Both point to the same habit: edit in steps, and keep each step.

Earlier versions also help with decisions made later. A client may prefer the warmer lighting of version 2 after seeing version 5, or a campaign may need both the square and the vertical crop of the same image.

ImageQuarry keeps earlier versions alongside each new one, with the prompts, sources, references and conversation that produced them.

Sources: OpenAI image prompting guide; Google Gemini image generation documentation; ImageQuarry homepage. Checked October 20, 2026.

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Last reviewed October 20, 2026 by ImageQuarry

Create an image. Edit it with words. Keep refining.

Edit without losing what you liked

In ImageQuarry, each change is a new version, so the earlier ones stay ready to compare or continue from.

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