How to write good prompts for great AI images
When you try to create images with artificial intelligence, you will need to instruct the AI generator what you want in your image. The message that you send to the generator is called a prompt. I will show you how you can work on your prompts to get the result that you wish. For the creation of the images below, I used the free AI Generator https://playgroundai.com/.
What is the subject of your picture?
What do you want the generator to create? Is it a landscape, a person, an animal, a car? This is the first thing that you have to define. Then you need to set a context. What is the subject doing in the image?
For our example, I want to create an image of a girl that paints a picture. I entered the following prompt:
young girl painting a picture
Each time, I ask the generator to create 4 images so that we can see the range of the results results. This is the result of this prompt:
Give qualities to your subject
I want the image to be a bit more precise and I adapt my prompt as follows:
young girl with black hair painting a picture
You see now that all 4 images show a girl with black hair but now I have different styles and I'm not totally happy with what I see. The girl is not looking the way I want, let's change that...
I use now the following prompt:
young smiling girl with black unruly hair painting a picture in a garden
A smile can change so much. The result is already much more pleasant in my opinion, we have given a facial expression, some movements to the hair and a garden background. With some adjectives, we can give a totally new tone to the image.
Select a style
I would like the image to have a different style. I can now put a coma after my subject and define the style of my picture. I will chose watercolor. This is the new prompt:
young smiling girl with black unruly hair painting a picture in a garden, watercolor
The style is nice but I'm not so happy about it. Let's try another style. I want to use the style anime. I will simply replace watercolor by anime. It's as easy as that to change the style and you can really play around with that. There are some style guides that you can find online. The new prompt:
young smiling girl with black unruly hair painting a picture in a garden, anime
Adding details
Maybe it would be nice if the girl was dressed differently. Let's try to get her dressed in a blue sweater and just for the sake of the exercise, let her wear some black gloves. I will use the following prompt for that:
young smiling girl with black unruly hair painting a picture in a garden, anime, blue sweater, black gloves
We have started with a subject and a setting, then we got more precise and added some defining adjectives. We then chose a style for the image and finished with some clothing details. This is a step by step way to create our prompt, to get closer and closer to the result that we want.
There are definitely other ways to get there but I like this step by step approach because I understand what the algorithm is doing. Also it's important not to overcharge your prompt or write contradictory sentences. The longer the prompt, the more the generator will skip some part.
I hope you found this helpful and encourage you to try to play with these prompts to learn how to use these AI generator tools.
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Ah the follow-up article to your previous one :D
Thanks for sharing these tips. Trying out playgroundai is still on my todo list, but now I'll take a headstart doing so :D
I enjoy trying out combinations and looking at the results. Hope you will have some fun with it ;-)
That is really great and simple to understand! I quite liked the watercolor results. I didnt realise that it could be so easy to generate some images like that and must test it out soon! 😀
I also like the watercolor results and it's really fun to play around with the different styles. You can get some stunning results.
In the two upper pictures I used salvador dali as style and in the two lower one picasso ;-)
Pretty cool and I can think many ways to use these tools.
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So simple and easy to understand. The image really turns out to be so so amazing. Thank you so much for sharing this
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Thank u so much. Its really helpful in generating images and still I don't was not aware of how to generate images but through this post now everything is clear.
I'm happy you found it useful!
It's definitely a nice guide. It helps that you started off small and added more details. However, it does look like it will get rough if you keep adding in more and more details. It's also kind of funny to see it move more towards an anime look as you added in more details.
You can actually define the style of the image. I've put anime style for the last two set of images.
Very good advice, I like it. It is very well explained. In the end it's about not being afraid and trying until you get what you want in the image.
Exactly, thre is a lot of trial and error necessary to get the results you want.
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STOPOh wow, adding smile to the prompt brought life to the images. Prior to that, the images were a bit flat. Great that there a different options for styles and other features. Imagination is usually the limit when creating AI images.
I agree, adding something as simple as a smile gives a totally new dimension to the created image.
That's right
A lot of us just use images without even having a re a on behind or a concept for ut
This is very much helpful
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Great tips. In my increasing usage of AI, I've found that while a powerful tool, it does require precise instructions in order to get the result you really want. I guess at the end of the day, it requires human skill in wielding it to maximise it's potential.
The generator is only as intelligent as the prompt that it recieves. By playing around, we can learn to be more precise and get the required results. It's not as easy as it sounds ;-)
Wow! This is helpful. I love the way you detailed it. Even we humans only work better with precise information.
Haha, that's well said. If humans know how to formulate the prompts well, the generators will do a much better job ;-)
Exactly
Thanks for sharing it. I learned alot. Great work
I'm happy to hear that. Thanks for stopping by!
This technology as we see it is becoming more and more popular and it is helping people to improve the quality of their daily content.
These tools can really help us in our task.
Yeah you are right.
Hehe these images are soo cool! I know my phone can also create stickers based on prompts too!
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There are some great AI apps that can be used as well