Write what can be seen
Use concrete nouns, positions, surfaces, and light behavior before mood words.
A repeatable prompt order
Start with the part that defines the image, then move from the large composition to visible surface detail. The order below is short enough to edit without losing track of the variable you changed.
[medium or image type] + [main subject] + [composition] + [visible light] + [materials and palette] + [exact text] + [one final constraint]
Use it in three moves
Write every visible string
If text matters, include each word exactly. Do not ask the model to invent labels or titles.
Change one variable
When a result misses, alter the failing clause instead of stacking more adjectives onto the whole prompt.
Generated examples, prompt included
These are catalog entries with the exact prompt and generated output kept together. Copy a prompt, then change one clause at a time.
Ceramicist at golden hour, 85mm
A ceramicist in her studio at golden hour, hands wet with slip, throwing a bowl on a kick wheel. Shot on 85mm at f/1.8, shallow depth of field, warm rim light from a west-facing window, dust motes in the beam. Muted earth palette, visible clay dust on her forearms.
Rain-soaked crosswalk, neon reflections
A rain-soaked crosswalk at night in Seoul, seen from a low angle at pavement level. Neon signage reflected and broken across the wet asphalt, a single pedestrian mid-stride with an umbrella. 35mm, deep focus, high contrast, cyan and magenta cast against black.
Cold-lit surgical corridor
An empty hospital corridor lit only by overhead fluorescents, one tube flickering. Polished linoleum reflecting the ceiling lights into long streaks. Symmetrical one-point perspective, 24mm, slight barrel distortion, desaturated green-grey palette, absolutely no people.
Portra 400 family kitchen
A cluttered family kitchen mid-morning, shot on Kodak Portra 400, slight grain and halation on the highlights. Steam from a kettle catching the window light, dishes stacked, a child's drawing taped to a cabinet. Natural skin tones, soft contrast, 50mm.
Macro: solder joint
Extreme macro of a hand-soldered joint on a green PCB, 5:1 magnification, focus stacked so the entire solder fillet is sharp. Visible flux residue, the silkscreen label R14 legible beside it. Cold ring light, shallow background falloff into black.
Overcast coastline, long exposure
A basalt coastline under heavy overcast, 30-second long exposure so the surf becomes a low white mist around the rocks. Horizon dead level, no sun, 16mm, ND1000, cool grey palette with a single ochre patch of lichen in the foreground.
Backlit dust in a warehouse
A disused warehouse interior, late afternoon sun entering through a high broken window as a hard visible shaft. Dust suspended in the beam, everything outside the beam falling to near-black. 35mm, heavy contrast, one strong light source only.
Flash-lit street portrait at night
A street portrait at night, direct on-camera flash, subject one metre from the lens, background falling off to black within two metres. Harsh specular highlights on skin, red-eye avoided, 28mm, the raw snapshot aesthetic of 1990s tabloid photography.
Aerial: terraced rice fields
Directly overhead drone shot of terraced rice fields at flooding stage, water surfaces mirroring a pale sky so the terraces read as abstract silver contours. No horizon. Late afternoon, long shadows from the retaining walls, subtle green fringe of new growth.
What is in the library
58matching generated examples in the catalog
514prompts in the full catalog
63published categories
2ComfyUI starter workflows
Take the prompts into your own workflow
Download the wildcard pack, or use the starter graph to render a prompt in ComfyUI.