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 in the Generate tab of tendre.AI.
1. Be concrete
Name the subject clearly, then add style, lighting and framing, for example portrait of a woman, soft window light, 85mm photo, shallow depth of field, in the Prompt (in English) field. The model weighs earlier words more heavily, so put the subject and its most important trait first.
2. Use the Shot framing dropdown
Above the prompt box, the Shot framing dropdown (Close-up, Medium shot, Wide shot and more) inserts the chosen term right at your cursor, so you can build a prompt without memorizing camera vocabulary.
3. Let the AI assistant rewrite it
Click the small sparkling AI button in the corner of the prompt box (tooltip "Optimize prompt (AI)") to have the built-in assistant turn a rough idea into a fuller prompt. If you prefer the original, the undo arrow next to it restores exactly what you typed.
4. Say what you want, not what you don't
You don't need a negative prompt in tendre.AI, for images or for videos: the models work from your prompt alone. So describe what you want to see, rather than what to avoid. Instead of pushing away "blurry", ask for sharp focus; instead of excluding a crowd, describe an empty street.
5. Emphasize a detail
If a detail keeps getting ignored, say it more precisely and earlier in the prompt, in plain words: vivid copper-red hair rather than red hair. Weights in parentheses, like (red hair:1.3), come from older models and have no effect here: Krea 2 reads your prompt as natural language.
6. Iterate in small steps
Change one detail at a time (light, pose, outfit) and press Generate again rather than rewriting everything from scratch.
Once your prompt is close, lock the seed to refine it, or apply a style preset on top for a consistent look.