Prompting guide: write better prompts

A good prompt is a list of concrete, ordered details, not a vague sentence. This page covers the habits that make prompts reliable across most generations.

1. Be concrete

Name the subject clearly, then add style, lighting and lens or framing: for example portrait of a woman, soft window light, 85mm photo, shallow depth of field. Vague adjectives like "beautiful" or "nice" give the model little to work with; specific nouns and camera terms give it a lot.

2. Order matters

The model weighs earlier words more heavily. Put the subject and the most important trait first, and push secondary details (background, minor accessories) toward the end of the prompt.

3. Use a negative prompt

The negative prompt tells the model what to avoid: blurry, extra fingers, watermark, wrong number of limbs, low quality. It does not compete for attention with your main prompt, so use it freely to clean up common artifacts.

4. Emphasize terms

If a detail keeps getting ignored, increase its weight so the model pays more attention to it, instead of repeating the word or padding the prompt with synonyms.

5. Iterate in small steps

Change one thing at a time (light, pose, outfit) and regenerate, rather than rewriting the prompt from scratch each time. This makes it easy to tell which change caused which result.

Once your prompt is close, lock the seed to refine it, or apply a style preset on top for a consistent look.