After this tutorial, you will be able to Pick the right visual style for each design task Break a style name into observable traits such as material, composition, and light Practice with 8 complete prompts and compare styles on the same subject You have saved a long list of prompts, yet when it is time to design, you still get stuck on the same question: which visual language should I use this time? A tea poster can feel gentle and airy, or crisp and energetic; an ordinary product can sit inside an orderly still-life arrangement, or gain a stronger impression through fabric, glass, and light. The subject stays the same, but change the way it is expressed, and the mood of the image changes with it. This article selects 8 directions worth practicing by hand. Each section includes a full image, English keywords, and a Midjourney practice prompt, and explains what kind of design task it fits. Pick a direction by design task first Before you begin, be clear about what job the image needs to do. The table below is this article’s suggested way to choose, so you can start from real usage. How to write style words so they turn into images A style name can point you in a direction; next, break it into traits you can actually see. For example, writing only paper cut is still a bit broad; adding stacked paper layers, cut edges, and soft shadows expresses your intended visual far more clearly. For watercolor, you can add translucent washes, paper texture, and irregular pigment edges. A reusable order is: Subject and scene → one main style or medium → two or three observable traits → composition, palette, and light. This is a way to organize your thinking; you do not need to write every prompt long. Midjourney officially recommends short, specific descriptions that make clear what actually matters: subject, medium, environment, light, and composition. Midjourney official prompt guide The code blocks below are already written as complete practice prompts; keep the trailing parameters when you copy them. To adapt one to your own project, first swap the subject and use case, then check whether the style still reads clearly. 01 | Layered paper-cut: build a small world from paper layers Image 1 | Original layered paper-cut style example. This image breaks the fox, trees, mountains, and river into different paper layers. The orange subject sits in a teal environment, and the paper edges and shadows work together to convey depth, giving the landscape a tactile quality. This direction suits nature-themed illustration, travel promotion, children’s content, and narrative scenes on gift boxes. When producing it, first establish a few clear outlines, then add detail gradually. Keywords: layered paper-cut illustration , cut-paper edges , stacked paper layers , shadows between layers . Midjourney practice prompt: Adapt it to your project: swap the fox and forest for a tea garden, a mountain guesthouse, or a festival scene, and keep clear foreground, midground, and background. When you need room for type, add open sky area for a headline to reserve a cleaner region for the title. If the image feels crowded, first remove some trees, flowers, and small props, and check whether the subject’s outline can be seen at a glance in a thumbnail. 02 | Isometric miniature: fit spatial information into one scene Image 2 | Original isometric miniature style example. The miniature studio gathers a desk, bookshelf, chair, and plants into an open corner space. It can introduce a work environment, and also suits presenting stores, product-use scenes, and lifestyle. What matters in this kind of image is the relationship between objects: which way the desk faces, whether the walking space is clear, and whether the reading and working areas are distinct. When the spatial organization is clear, the image is easy to read. Keywords: isometric miniature diorama , open corner walls , soft daylight , clean background . Midjourney practice prompt: Adapt it to your project: change the studio into a flower shop, a coffee corner, a bookstore, or a creative desk. First decide on a few most representative objects — a flower shop’s worktable, buckets, and display shelf — to keep a clear functional theme. If it will be used as a web card, preview it at the actual card size. Books, ornaments, and screen details that are too small may turn into messy color dots once shrunk. 03 | Flat-lay knolling: let the arrangement itself create design Image 3 | Original flat-lay knolling style example. This tea-set case places objects of different shapes on a single plane and creates order through spacing and direction. Ivory ceramics, a deep-green tea tin, and a bamboo scoop provide a restrained color hierarchy. This composition can present a set’s contents, everyday-carry gear, stationery, or a dinnerware series. It has fairly specific requirements for object count, edges, and overlap, so it helps to write a simple item list before generating. Keywords: top-down knolling photograph , equal spacing , aligned edges , gentle short shadows . Midjourney practice prompt: Adapt it to your project: swap the tea set for cycling gear, travel organizers, drawing tools, or a skincare set, then unify the background and the spacing between objects. This practice prompt specifies “one teapot, two cups, one tea tin, and one scoop.” After generating, first check the count, then check the spout, cup rims, and how objects touch. For a real set, work from the actual product list to avoid extra objects causing confusion. 04 | Watercolor botanical: lighter color, room for the paper to breathe Image 4 | Original watercolor botanical illustration style example. Two lemons, some leaves, and a few small flowers are already enough to build a complete botanical illustration. Translucent washes, fine pigment edges, and large paper areas keep the image light. This direction suits packaging visuals for tea, fruit, and floral themes, and can extend to menus, cards, and lifestyle illustration. When designing, tie the plant’s growth direction to the later layout: vertical branches fit narrow labels, while horizontal branches can run along a title or border. Keywords: watercolor botanical illustration , translucent washes , irregular pigment edges , cold-pressed paper texture . Midjourney practice prompt: Adapt it to your project: change it to pomelo, camellia, olive branches, or tea leaves; keep one main plant first, then decide whether to add flowers and fruit. When preparing it for packaging, generate the illustration separately first, then place brand name, category, and specs into the layout. For projects that need cutouts, check whether light pigment separates easily from the paper; the paper texture can also be kept as the overall background. 05 | Impasto oil painting: make brushstrokes the protagonist Image 5 | Original impasto oil painting style example. The yellow-green pears and the cobalt-blue plate form a clear color relationship. What draws the eye even more is the relief of thick paint on the surface: broad strokes build volume, and palette-knife marks give the still life a tactile quality. This direction works for food illustration, seasonal imagery, art-event visuals, and lifestyle content. The subject need not be complex; a few clearly shaped objects leave room for the brushwork to shine. Keywords: impasto oil painting , palette-knife strokes , thick ridges of paint , simplified still-life shapes . Midjourney practice prompt: Adapt it to your project: swap the pears for figs, bread, a bouquet, or a ceramic vase; keep the subject count restrained, and make the background color distinct enough from the subject. When applying it to a poster, give text a relatively flat region. Dense paint texture can interfere with small text, so enlarge the negative space, reposition the text, or set type separately to solve it. 06 | Risograph texture: bold character from a limited palette Image 6 | Original risograph-texture style example. This window-side cat illustration uses orange, deep teal, and paper white. Grain, uneven ink coverage, and slight misregistration keep the simplified shapes rich in detail. This article uses risograph-inspired to describe a visual direction. It suits indie brand content, cultural-product illustration, music events, and social graphics; actual print files still need separate handling per production requirements. Keywords: risograph-inspired illustration , two-color ink , halftone grain , subtle ink misregistration . Midjourney practice prompt: Adapt it to your project: swap the cat for a cyclist, a street corner, breakfast, or plants. First decide on two main colors, then let shapes, grain, and negative space carry the depth. When making a series, keep the same palette and grain direction and change only the scene content. Check each image separately to make sure local texture does not weaken subject recognition. 07 | Silk product visual: let folds guide the eye to the product Image 7 | Original silk product visual style example. The deep-green perfume bottle rests on champagne silk, and the fabric’s flow leads the eye to the subject. The material contrast between glass, metal, and fabric gives a simple scene a fuller viewing hierarchy. This direction suits perfume, beauty, jewelry, and gifting content. Decide the product position first, then arrange the fabric’s flow and light, and the image forms a clearer primary-secondary relationship. Keywords: champagne silk , broad fabric folds , soft side lighting , controlled specular highlights . Midjourney practice prompt: Adapt it to your project: swap the perfume bottle for a ring, a skincare jar, or a gift box, and adjust the fabric color to your brand. Light products can sit on darker fabric; for dark products, check whether the outline blends into the shadow. This example uses an unbranded fictional product. When creating scenes for a real product, you can continue editing or compositing with your own product image, and verify the bottle shape, label, cap, and material details. 08 | Frosted glass: build a futuristic feel from light and thickness Image 8 | Original translucent frosted-glass style example. The cyan glass ribbon forms a clear sculptural outline against the deep charcoal background. The broad frosted surfaces, bright edges, and the light changes where they overlap together explain the material and its thickness. This direction suits design expos, material themes, tech events, and abstract key visuals. The shapes can be very simple; the point is to concentrate the material traits on one clear structure. Keywords: translucent frosted glass , subtle thickness , luminous edges , overlapping surfaces . Midjourney practice prompt: Adapt it to your project: change the loop into folded sheets, an arch, or letter outlines, and move the subject as the layout requires. For a light version, swap the background to off-white or light gray and re-check the edge contrast. When you need text, numbers, or logos rendered precisely, first make a usable material visual, then complete accurate typesetting in design software. Leave room in the bright areas so titles stay legible when shrunk. Turn keywords into your own style combinations After reading the cases, pick a recent project and split the style words into three layers, then make small variations. For example, for a spring tea visual, choose “watercolor botanical illustration + pale green branches + vertical negative space”; for a design-expo key visual, choose “frosted glass + cyan edge light + dark background + title area on the left.” Change only one layer per round. That makes it easier to tell whether it is the subject, the material, or the composition that brings the image closer to what you need. The three parameters used in this article These parameters serve the exercises; the specific values are this article’s suggested starting points and should be adjusted based on results. The official documentation explains that --ar is the aspect ratio and should not be read directly as output pixel size; --s currently ranges from 0–1000 with a default of 100; Raw reduces the model’s automatic styling. Parameters should be placed at the end of the prompt. Aspect Ratio Stylize Raw Midjourney official prompt guide Practice: create a set of spring tea visuals Limit the task to “a spring lemon-tea poster,” compare two styles around the same theme, and you can put the keywords above to use. First define the use. Use vertical 3:4, a subject of lemon and leaves, a title area reserved at the top, and a palette of yellow, green, and off-white. Make the watercolor version. Start from section 04’s prompt, keep translucent washes and paper feel, add open space at the top for a headline , and watch whether the plants crowd the title area. Make the paper-cut version. Keep the same subject, ratio, palette, and negative-space requirements, and replace the medium and traits with section 01’s layered paper-cut, cut edges, and inter-layer shadows. Compare in a real layout. Add the same title to each, shrink to a phone-screen display size, and compare subject recognition, text readability, and brand feel. Once you choose a direction, adjust a single detail. Record each round’s prompt, model version, settings, and what needs improvement. Generation has randomness, so one round of comparison only gives clues; if the conclusion is unclear, run another round to verify. In the end, keep one usable image and one reusable keyword record. Do more style words always mean better results? You can first organize the prompt around one clear main direction, then add a few mutually supportive traits. For example, watercolor pairs with paper texture and pigment edges; product photography pairs with soft light and material description. The official prompt guide likewise recommends keeping descriptions concise and making key requirements clear. Midjourney official prompt guide How do I bring a single good image into a design? First check the subject and composition, then handle text and series extension. Place the image into an actual page, card, or packaging layout to see whether the title has room, the thumbnail reads clearly, and the colors match the brand. Pick 2 of the 8 directions and run one practice round on the same project. Keep the final prompt, model settings, and your selections, and gradually build a style record that works well for you. References and image notes The topic of this article references UISDC’s 《55 Midjourney keywords worth collecting》 . This article develops design-application analysis around eight visual directions; the practice prompts and parameter explanations follow this article’s content. The cover and eight case images illustrate visual styles, and the Midjourney prompts in the article are for practice. The images do not represent results that can be reproduced exactly with these prompts; when practicing, first compare material, composition, and palette, then refine details step by step. Prompt and parameter writing references Prompt Basics , Aspect Ratio , Stylize , and Raw official documentation. Pick two styles and finish your first comparison exercise Start from the same project, copy a practice prompt from this article, and swap in your own subject while keeping the use-case requirements. After choosing a direction, change only one variable per round. After this tutorial, you will be able to Find the design focus in material, light, composition, and motion Separate public prompts from original exercises and turn observations into concrete descriptions Build your own visual series through subject swaps, use-case changes, and single-variable iteration After reading the six cases below, you will notice: what makes an image work is often a few explicit visual decisions. How the paper layers build volume, how light falls on the skin, how an orange background sets off a black-and-white subject, how three independent elements form a story—these relationships are far more worth writing into a prompt than a vague demand for “premium, refined, atmospheric.” Following the first volume of the Midjourney official showcase , this volume selects six new cases from Midjourney’s official public documentation and follows the sequence of “observe the image—break down the method—rewrite the prompt” to see what inspiration they can bring to real design work. Six directions worth learning this volume 01 | Paper-cut cat: make material the protagonist Image source: Midjourney Docs · Art of Prompting , Cut Paper example. What to look at in this image The appeal of this cat comes from how the paper is organized. The forehead, chest, body, and curled tail are all built from paper layers running in different directions. The paper edges form narrow shadows, and the color blocks arranged along the body’s curves give the still silhouette a sense of flow. Burnt orange, ivory, and blue-gray form a gentle warm-cool relationship. The background stays a single gray-green, the paper fibers supply the detail, and the whole remains clean. The subject is already rich enough, so there is no need to steal attention with a complex environment. What you can learn: when writing the material, also say how it builds the object. “Paper art” defines the medium, while “paper layers arranged along the body’s curves” further defines the visual structure. The official base prompt The official page gives an example template of “medium name + style cat.” Fill the medium with Cut Paper and it can be written as: This is a base phrase filled in from the official template; the page does not provide the complete generation settings for this image. An original practice prompt Prompt focus: paper layers following the body structure; color kept within a few main tones; inter-layer shadows to express volume. Small exercise: swap the cat for a fox or a bird while keeping the material, palette, and light, and observe whether the same visual language still holds. If you want a pet-themed series, this is more consistent than picking a new style every time. 02 | Portrait smelling a flower: build natural mood with one gesture Image source: Midjourney Docs · Raw . What to look at in this set With the same “smelling a flower” subject, the official example shows several visual interpretations. The photographic direction on the right is especially worth studying: closed eyes, leaning toward the flower, gently holding the stem—a few gestures already convey the emotion. Curly hair, freckles, soft skin tone, and petals form small textural differences. The background recedes, and the viewer naturally focuses on the space between the face and the flower. For fragrance or floristry subjects, this kind of concrete gesture makes “scent” and “feeling” visible. The official page describes Raw as reducing the style the model adds automatically; for simple prompts it tends to steer toward natural, photography-like results. The change here is not simply more sharpness, but a different way of interpreting the image. The prompt shown in the official image The image shows both the Standard and Raw directions; the text above preserves what is publicly shown in the image, without inventing unpublished parameters. An original practice prompt Prompt focus: one natural gesture, a clear light direction, preserved skin detail, and a quiet background. Small exercise: keep the same character description and composition, replace only the pink flower with a white flower, and observe how the mood changes. For commercial visuals, place the main headline at a later layout stage and let the character carry the emotion first. 03 | Geometric puffin: organize a whole poster with one shape Image source: Midjourney Docs · Chaos / Variety , focusing on the orange scheme in the lower right. What to look at in this image The lower-right scheme compresses the sea into a set of white elliptical lines: they read as ripples in the distance and as a stage up close, making the puffin the visual center. The image uses orange as the ground, white to establish rhythm, and black outlines to anchor the subject. The white half-circle in the sky echoes the curves of the water, so even after removing the complex scenery, the image keeps a strong sense of space and a memorable point. What you can learn: first find a shape that can run through both the background and the subject, then arrange the image around it. Here it is arcs and ellipses; switch to mountains and you can try triangles; switch to architecture and you can start from the size relationships of rectangles. The prompt shown in the official image The official page compares results under different Chaos values. A higher --c widens the variation between candidates, but it does not specify “an orange-and-white geometric poster.” To explore that specific direction, you still need to write the colors and shapes into the text. An original practice prompt Prompt focus: a three-color limit, white elliptical ripples, a black-and-white subject, and clear negative space. Small exercise: first get a baseline with a fixed composition description, then try --c 0 , --c 25 , and --c 50 . Record how each group’s composition changes rather than only comparing which image looks busier. 04 | Starry cliff: tell a larger world through human scale Image source: Midjourney Docs · Image Prompts . What to look at in this set The reference image on the left already has a clear narrative relationship: one figure, one protruding rock, and a sea stretching into the distance. The following examples continue a similar visual motif, pushing the environment toward nebulas, planets, and a twilight sky. The figure is still the entry point for viewing, but what the image really shows is the proportion between a person and an immense space. The dark rock wall stabilizes the foreground, the warm light in the distance pulls open the depth, and the direction of the gown adds the presence of wind. The fantasy feeling thus has a realistic structure to attach to. The official page explains that Image Prompts can influence the content, composition, and color of a new image. To use this method, add the reference image first; it provides creative guidance but does not guarantee the figure or composition stays unchanged.

An original practice prompt The official page does not publish the complete prompt for this header image. The following is a text-only exercise rewritten from the visible image: Prompt focus: a clear scale relationship among figure, cliff, and sky; a cool foreground and a warm horizon; the figure’s action and the environment’s direction echoing each other. Small exercise: explore the overall direction with text first. To practice image reference further, add a coast photo you have the right to use and compare the composition with and without the reference. The reference should be an actual input asset, not the entire comparison illustration above used directly as the original input for the same task. 05 | Night garden: grow one image into a complete pattern system Image source: Midjourney Docs · Tile . What to look at in this image The black background concentrates the flowers’ colors. Large flowers, small flowers, leaves, and fine branches interlace to form both rich detail and order within repetition. From a design perspective, the most valuable thing to observe is the size difference: large flowers establish the main rhythm, while small flowers and leaves connect the gaps. If every element were the same size and evenly spaced, the pattern would feel mechanical; varied density with clear hierarchy makes the continuous layout more natural. Cases like this are suitable for extending beyond a “single image” into wrapping paper, fabric patterns, and decorative backgrounds. When designing, consider both whether a single unit is beautiful and whether repetition reveals obvious holes or crowding. An original practice prompt The official header image does not publish its original prompt; the following is written from its colors and pattern organization: Prompt focus: define the color roles of flowers and foliage, specify size variation and balanced spacing, then use --tile to generate a repeatable pattern unit. Small exercise: arrange the generated unit into a 3×3 grid and check the edge connections and overall density. The official note warns that upscaling may break seamless repetition, so re-check the tiling at the final size; this case should also be generated as a normal image on its own, since the current Edit Model does not support --tile . 06 | Flaming warhorse knight: write three elements into one complete action Image source: Midjourney Docs · Edit Model , Combining Multiple Images example. What to look at in this set The official example combines three assets—a sword of flowers, a silver knight, and a flaming warhorse—into a new riding scene. The power of this image comes from the relationships between elements: the knight rides the horse and raises the sword of flowers, while the horse’s motion pushes the whole image upward. The cool armor and blue-purple sky form the overall tone, and the orange flames become the strongest visual energy. What you can learn: multiple nouns are just a list of materials; action and position are what organize them into an image. What the character holds, what they ride on, and which direction they move are all worth writing explicitly. The official public edit prompt This instruction is used with the three input images in the official example. The word “this” points to the reference assets; copying the text alone does not include the specific appearance of the knight, the fire horse, and the sword of flowers. An original practice prompt If you want to try a similar idea with text only, use the following. It is for regenerating a scene: Prompt focus: use “riding, holding, flowing” to define the character relationships, then unify the color, light, and rendering style. Small exercise: prepare character, mount, and prop assets you have the right to use, then combine them. First verify that the riding and holding relationships hold, then fine-tune the flames, cape, and background details. Observing “correct action” and “visual richness” in two separate rounds makes it easier to judge what to change. Bring the methods back into your own prompts These six cases can be condensed into a simple writing order: Subject and action → image organization → material or medium → color and light → parameters. You can start by writing this sentence: What do I want the viewer to see first, what is it doing, and what is the most important visual relationship in the image? Then translate the answer into visible details. For example, “premium pet illustration” can become “blue-gray and warm-orange paper layers, arranged along the body’s curves, a single background, narrow inter-layer shadows”; “a fantasy image with a story” can become “a knight riding a fire horse, raising a sword of flowers, a cool sky setting off orange flames.” A few parameters used in this article As of October 10, 2026, the official Version documentation lists V8.2 as the default version; the official examples may have been made under different versions and should not all be treated as current-version results. The practice prompts in this article do not lock --v ; use your own model setting and record the model version, personalization state, and input reference images. The parameter syntax above follows the Midjourney official site. Start with one example and run a set of your own experiments Pick the direction closest to your current work and complete three rounds: Swap the subject. Keep the material, light, and palette, and replace only the person, animal, or object. Change the use. Adapt the same direction into a cover, a vertical poster, or a background image, and rearrange the subject’s position and negative space. Make a series. Fix a satisfying visual description, change only one variable per round, and keep the corresponding prompt and generation settings. Once you can explain why an image works, it becomes easier to break it down into reusable design methods. The next time you face an empty prompt box, write down a concrete visual relationship first: let the paper fold along the contour, let the light come in from the left, or let a small figure stand beneath an enormous sky. Pick a prompt and start your design experiment Copy your favorite exercise prompt from this article, swap in your own subject, and generate the first set. Change only one variable at a time so the result tells you what to adjust next. After this tutorial, you will be able to Generate your first image on the Midjourney website or in Discord Choose a candidate and refine it with variations and editing tools Use SD and HD strategically to save GPU time and export a polished image 01 · Enter a prompt and generate images Midjourney starts with a prompt: a short description of the image you want. On midjourney.com, open the Create page, type your description in the Imagine bar, and press Enter. A standard job returns four different interpretations of the same idea. In Discord, enter the /imagine command, add your text in the prompt field, and send it. Clear visual details usually matter more than long instructions. Describe the subject, environment, lighting, mood, and composition you actually want to see. Website — use the Imagine bar on the Create page Discord — use /imagine and enter the description in the prompt field Prompt structure — subject, setting, composition, lighting, style, and important details Tip English descriptive phrases are a dependable choice, but clarity is more important than length. Start concise and add only details that affect the image. 02 · Choose a candidate and refine it Compare the four candidates and select the image closest to your goal. On the website, open the image to access Vary, Remix, Edit, and related controls. In Discord, the V buttons generate four new variations that keep the selected image's general composition and style. In the latest Discord workflow, U1–U4 primarily separate the selected image from the grid and reveal more tools; they are not the same as the old one-click upscale buttons. Use Vary (Subtle) for small changes, Vary (Strong) for a wider reinterpretation, or rerun the original prompt when the overall direction is wrong. Keep the subject and composition when the direction is already right Change one variable at a time so you can judge what improved the result Use a new prompt or reroll when none of the four candidates fits the goal Tip Midjourney becomes easier when you treat each generation as a controlled comparison instead of trying to make the first result perfect. 03 · Edit, increase resolution, and export Use the web Editor to change selected regions, remove unwanted objects, replace a background, or extend the canvas with Pan and Zoom Out. Midjourney's current Editor can combine Remix, inpainting, panning, and outpainting. Check the edited image again before final export because regenerated areas can introduce new details. With V8.1, a square SD image is typically 1024 × 1024 pixels, while HD produces a native 2048 × 2048 image. Midjourney's current documentation estimates about 0.8 GPU minutes for a four-image SD job and about 1.3 minutes for HD. Editing or extending an HD image can return it to SD, so upscale again after the edit when you need a final 2K file. Explore quickly in SD while deciding on the subject and composition Finish edits before spending extra GPU time on the final resolution Use HD or an upscale option for posters, print, and other high-resolution output Inspect faces, hands, text, repeated patterns, and image edges before download Tip The efficient workflow is two-stage: explore several SD options first, then switch to HD only for the final candidate. GPU costs and interface labels may change as Midjourney updates. Build a repeatable process before chasing perfection. Apply the same structure to your own subject, generate once, observe, then change one variable. That is how a personal method begins. After this tutorial, you will be able to Read an AI image through visual history and design language Identify the prompt phrases that control the strongest effect Turn an admired work into a repeatable experiment 01 · The tea-party gentleman The rabbit head and tailored human body continue a long satirical tradition of anthropomorphic portraiture. A photographic subject placed against gold, neon pink, and petrol blue creates a deliberate photomontage seam: respectable Victorian posture collides with Dada-like collage energy. Tip Bind the photographic treatment to the subject, then describe the background as a separate collage layer. This keeps the head from dissolving into the graphic field. 02 · Rialto Bridge Flat color, bold outlines, a balanced vertical layout, and visible halftone texture make the scene feel like a twentieth-century travel poster. Halftone is especially important: it turns a clean digital gradient into something that reads as ink on paper. Tip For a convincing vintage poster, combine one landmark, one transport motif, flat colors, coarse outlines, and a clearly named print texture. 03 · Ice-cream disaster The image holds attention through controlled contradiction. Mint green, strawberry pink, and soft clouds promise sweetness, while eyeballs, slime, and fangs introduce danger. Because cute color remains dominant, the horror reads as a sharp accent rather than the whole genre. Tip Keep the pastel world as the base and use teeth, eyes, or slime sparingly. Reversing that balance produces conventional horror instead of pop surrealism. 04 · The screentone cat The girl and wallpaper use clean cel-shaded color, but the cat alone receives visible manga screentone dots. Two printing logics coexist in one frame, creating depth that feels assembled rather than uniformly filtered. Tip Attach a texture to a named object—such as ‘the cat rendered with visible halftone screentone dots’—instead of placing the texture in the global style list. 05 · The clay rocker Caricature works by amplifying the features that separate a face from an average one. Oversized glasses, a long nose, and a narrow face make the reference instantly legible, while matte clay and vinyl-toy cues soften the distortion and prevent it from feeling grotesque. Tip Choose two or three signature features to exaggerate, then add a friendly material such as clay or vinyl to control the emotional tone. Build a repeatable process before chasing perfection. Apply the same structure to your own subject, generate once, observe, then change one variable. That is how a personal method begins. After this tutorial, you will be able to Write a well-structured first prompt Control composition and lighting Improve results through single-variable iterations 01 · Define what the image needs to do Do not begin by stacking style keywords. First define the image's purpose, subject, and intended mood. These choices determine the composition and details you need later. For example, the same coffee cup needs clear materials and negative space in an ecommerce image, while a brand poster depends more on atmosphere and a memorable visual idea. Purpose: avatar, cover, poster, or product image Subject: the most important person or object in the frame Mood: calm, energetic, mysterious, or light 02 · Use a six-part prompt Describe the subject, environment, composition, lighting, visual style, and key details—in that order. Give each part one job so the model can identify what matters. Tip Keep the first version concise. Too much information can pull attention away from the subject. 03 · Check only three things in the first result Do not get stuck on small flaws yet. Use these three questions to decide whether the direction is right. If it is not, revise the prompt; if it is, continue refining. Is the subject immediately recognizable and positioned for the intended use? Do the light and color communicate the target mood? Does the image have enough depth and negative space? 04 · Change one variable at a time If you change the subject, camera, color, and style at once, you cannot tell what made the image better or worse. Keep what works and replace only one variable in each round. A useful order is subject and composition first, lighting and color second, then materials, clothing, and environmental details. Subject feels weak: remove secondary objects and clarify its position or action Image feels flat: specify shot size, camera angle, and foreground–background layers Mood feels wrong: define the main color, light direction, and whether the light is soft or hard 05 · Run a final check before export Choose the result closest to your goal and upscale it. Before commercial use, manually inspect faces, hands, text, brand marks, and the structure of small objects. Does the aspect ratio and resolution fit the publishing channel? Do subject edges, facial features, and repeated textures look natural? Did you save the final prompt and version so the result can be reproduced? Build a repeatable process before chasing perfection. Apply the same structure to your own subject, generate once, observe, then change one variable. That is how a personal method begins. After this tutorial, you will be able to Turn abstract ideas into visible details Use composition and camera language with confidence Remove instructions that conflict with each other 01 · Translate feelings into visible details Words such as “premium,” “dreamy,” and “textured” are difficult to execute directly. Break the feeling into color, material, light, and spatial relationships for more consistent results. Tip This gives the model more visible information than “a premium, dreamy vase.” 02 · Give the subject an identity, state, and action Writing only “a girl” produces an extremely broad range of results. Add an age cue, clothing, action, and gaze, but avoid assigning too many competing identities at once. Identity: botanist, dancer, or architect State: just stepped out of the rain or sorting specimens Action: looking back, bending down, or holding an object in both hands 03 · Use shot size and camera angle to control the story Shot size controls how close the viewer feels to the subject; camera angle changes the subject's psychological presence. Choose one main camera treatment. Close-up: emphasizes expression, material, and detail Medium shot: balances action and environment Wide shot: emphasizes the scale of the space Eye level feels natural, a low angle feels powerful, and a high angle feels observational 04 · Define the light's direction, softness, and color Instead of writing only “cinematic lighting,” explain where the light comes from, whether the shadows are soft or sharp, and which colors appear in the environment. 05 · Put important information first and remove conflicts Lead with the subject and core scene. Check whether the prompt combines incompatible directions, such as photorealism with flat illustration or hard midday sun with soft overcast light. Keep one main direction for each type of information Remove trendy words that do not support the image goal Separate modules with commas so they are easy to replace 06 · Build your own controlled comparisons Keep the subject and scene fixed, then replace only the camera, lighting, or material. Save each result with its prompt. After several rounds, you will have a vocabulary that is more useful than a generic keyword list. Group A compares only shot sizes Group B compares only dominant colors Group C compares only lighting directions Tag reusable phrases from successful results Build a repeatable process before chasing perfection. Apply the same structure to your own subject, generate once, observe, then change one variable. That is how a personal method begins.