While the A.I. can do many things, there are a few things it is not good at, and you should keep this in mind.
Things the A.I. does not do well:
The A.I. has a tough time producing clear images of people in large settings.
While portrait images look amazing, the A.I. struggles with making a landscape image with people appear clear and anatomically correct. If you are going to have a scene with people, expect they will be abstract as a painting. To achieve a perfectly clear image of a newly generated character, it must be in a portrait ratio i.e. 3:4 or 1:1, and up close. Here are some examples:
Example of Portrait image of a person (up close)
Example of a Landscape image of people (far away)
The A.I. does not work with complex prompts with many details well but can produce highly detailed images that will fit the core description.
Prompts should be kept as simple and as accurate as possible.
Example Prompt Shown Here - The Orb of Knowledge
Establish a Ratio
Your ratio is also equally important. Large scenes do not work well in a 1:1 image. Check out this guide for ratios and notify your agent of the ratios you would like your images in.
Popular Sizes are 16:9 for Youtube Videos Thumbnails and 3:4 for Instagram images.
Establish a Style
We can send you a million images but if they are not in the proper style you are looking for then they will not be satisfactory to you. Take a look at these styles and notify your agent of what direction you want to go.
Vintage and Ornate - The images look intricate and have an old fantasy steampunk appearance.
Water Color and Paint - These images look like they are painted by an artist with a brush.
Futuristic - These are designs with an advanced modern feel to them.
Realistic - These images look more like they are actual pictures. (Does not work well with everything but with some things it's impressive.)
2D Art - This art is flat like an outline or diagram.
High Detail - These images have an immense amount of texture and detail.
Anime - These images look cartoonish like manga or anime.
Our goal is to take your image beyond your imagination so while the image may not be exactly what you envisioned keep an open awareness that you may have dialed into something incredible.
Text Prompt Best Practices
Try visually well-defined objects
Visually well-defined means something with a lot of photos on the internet
Try: Wizard, priest, angel, emperor, necromancer, rockstar, city, queen, Zeus, house, temple, farm, car, landscape, mountain, river
Strong feelings or mystical-sounding themes also work great
Try: “a sense of awe” “the will to endure” “cognitive resonance” “the shores of infinity” “the birth of time” “a desire for knowledge” “the notion of self”
Try describing a style
Examples: “a cyberpunk wizard” “a surreal landscape” “a psychedelic astronaut”
Try: cyberpunk, psychedelic, surreal, vaporwave, alien, solarpunk, modern, ancient, futuristic, retro, realistic, dreamlike, funk art, abstract, pop art, impressionism, minimalism
Try invoking unique artists to get a unique style
Examples: “Temple by James Gurney” “Father by MC Escher”
Try: Hiroshi Yoshida, Max Ernst, Paul Signac, Salvador Dali, James Gurney, M.C. Escher, Thomas Kinkade, Ivan Aivazovsky, Italo Calvino, Norman Rockwell, Albert Bierstadt, Giorgio de Chirico, Rene Magritte, Ross Tran, Marc Simonetti, John Harris, Hilma af Klint, George Inness, Pablo Picasso, William Blake, Wassily Kandinsky, Peter Mohrbacher, Greg Rutkowski, Paul Signac, Steven Belledin, Studio Ghibli
Combine names for new styles: “A temple by Greg Rutkowski and Ross Tran”
Try invoking a particular medium
If the style is unspecified, it will lean towards photorealism
Examples: “a watercolor painting of a landscape” “a child's drawing of a home”
Try: painting, drawing, sketch, pencil drawing, w, woodblock print, matte painting, child's drawing, charcoal drawing, an ink drawing, oil on canvas, graffiti, watercolor painting, fresco, stone tablet, cave painting, sculpture, work on paper, needlepoint
Speak in positives. Avoid negatives
Language models often ignore negative words (“not” “but” “except” “without”).
Avoid: “a hat that’s not red” “ Try: “a blue hat” Avoid: “a person but half robot” Try: “half person half robot”
Specify what you want clearly
Avoid: “monkeys doing business” Try: “three monkeys in business suits”
If you want a specific composition, say so!
Examples: “a portrait of a queen” “an ultrawide shot of a queen” Disco Diffusion v5.1 [w/ Turbo] - Colaboratory
Try: portrait, headshot, ultrawide shot, extreme closeup, macro shot, an expansive view of
Too many small details may overwhelm the system:
Avoid: “a monkey on roller skates juggling razor blades in a hurricane”
Try: “a monkey that’s a hurricane of chaos”
Try taking two well-defined concepts and combining them in ways no one has seen before
Examples: “cyberpunk shinto priest” “psychedelic astronaut crew” “river of dreams” “temple of stars” “queen of time” “necromancer capitalist”
Try to use singular nouns or specific numbers
Vague plural words leave a lot to chance (did you mean 2 wizards or 12 wizards?)
Avoid: “cyberpunk wizards” Try: “three cyberpunk wizards” Avoid: “psychedelic astronauts” Try: “psychedelic astronaut crew” (implies a crew shot)
Avoid concepts which involve significant extrapolation
Avoid: “an optimistic vision of an augmented reality future” Try: “a solarpunk city filled with holograms”
Avoid: “Clothes humans will wear 12,000 years into the future” Try: “wildly futuristic clothing with glowing and colorful decoration”
Creative Compound Words Also Work
Punk style list: cyberpunk, nanopunk, biopunk, cyber noir, steampunk, clockpunk, dieselpunk, decopunk, coalpunk, atompunk, steelpunk, islandpunk, oceanpunk, rococopunk, stonepunk, mythpunk, raypunk, nowpunk, cyberprep, postcyberpunk, solarpunk, lunarpunk, elfpunk, atompunk, neonpunk
Existing Collections and Sets Also Work (Example)
Tarot Cards (Major Arcana): The Fool, The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, c, The Sun, Judgment, The World