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A 5-part prompt formula. Subject style lighting composition details. Stop the AI from guessing.
I typed a cat on a windowsill into an AI image generator. I got a blurry blob. The prompt was the problem. Not the tool.
AI image generators take your prompt literally and fill in every gap with statistically probable pixels. Vague prompts produce vague images. Here is how to go from blurry blob to usable image.
A good prompt has five parts: subject, style, lighting, composition, details. Most people only write the subject. That gives the AI 20 percent of what it needs.
Bad: a cat. Good: A fluffy orange tabby cat sitting on a sunny windowsill, soft morning light, photorealistic, 4K detail. Every extra word reduces what the AI has to guess.
Counter-intuitive: a reference image does more for quality than moving from Low to High quality. Upload a photo with the right lighting or composition. The AI uses it as a starting point. This is the difference between close enough and exactly right.
The AI image generator lets you add a reference for 1 extra credit. Use it.