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Learn how to write effective prompts for Gencraft. Use these tips and tricks to bring your ideas to life.
Writing good prompts for any generative AI model requires a good amount of trial and error to get a sense of its capabilities and limitations.
Beginning to write your prompt
Be clear and specific
Write prompts that are clear and specific about what you want. Avoid vague or ambiguous language. For example, instead of saying “create a beautiful landscape,” specify the elements you want in the landscape, such as “generate a serene, sunset beach scene with palm trees and little waves.”
Use descriptive language
Use lots of adjectives and adverbs to convey the mood, style, and characteristics you desire in the artwork. Words like “vibrant,” “whimsical,” “colorful,” or “minimalistic” can help guide the AI in the right direction.
Include style references
If you have specific images or existing artworks that inspire you, include them in your prompt as references. You can say something like, “generate a beach scene inspired by Van Gogh’s Starry Night.”
Don’t use negations
The model has a difficult time understanding negations, such as “huge mansion, no pool.” If there is something you would like to be excluded from your result, use the negative prompt feature instead. Learn more about how to use negative prompting here.
Stay within the guidelines
Please avoid promoting harmful or offensive ideas in your prompts. We have guidelines in place to prevent explicit, violent, and otherwise inappropriate content from being generated. If you attempt to generate harmful content, your submission will fail and no image will be generated.
Format however you’d like
Your prompt can either be in the form of a full sentence (i.e., “A cat sitting on the beach and enjoying the sunshine”) or a list (i.e., “Happy cat, beach scene, bright sunshine”). Use whichever you feel most comfortable with, or a combination of the two.
Word weighting
Word weighting allows you to put special emphasis on certain parts of your prompt. Let’s take the following prompt as an example: “An orange cat with bright blue eyes on a kitchen table.” Depending on what you envision for your final result, you could put weights here in several different places. Maybe the fact that the cat is orange is crucial, or maybe its location is more important.
You can assign weights by including parenthesis in your prompt. The amount of weight assigned to a word or phrase is indicated by the number of parenthesis, with a higher number of parenthesis indicating a higher level of priority or weight.
For example, in the prompt “A (((tattoo of a fox))) on an ((ankle)) with a (weird, mystical aura)” the heaviest emphasis is on “tattoo of a fox,” second heaviest is on “ankle,” and the least amount of added emphasis is on “weird, mystical aura.” These weights can be placed however you’d like, whether that be on phrases or singular words.
Prompt enhancer
If you’re feeling stuck or just would like some help making your prompt the best it can be, try our prompt enhancer! This tool adds more detail and descriptive language to your prompt, as well as adding in weights to certain words or phrases. The “Enhance prompt” button can be found in the bottom right corner of the prompt box.
In this example, the starting prompt was “A man standing in front of a castle.” After our enhancing tool, this prompt became “A (((man))) standing confidently in a (((plaza outside a medieval castle))), his posture suggesting authority and gravitas, with the (opulent castle walls and turrets looming in the background).”
You can use this new prompt right away, or you can use it as a base and revise certain words in order to best describe what you want to create.
It takes time to familiarize yourself with the way an AI-based tool works. Don’t be afraid to experiment with your prompts. If the result isn’t quite what you’d hoped, tweak your prompt and try again. Sometimes unexpected results can be a good thing — you may be inspired by interpretations you wouldn’t have otherwise thought of.
We hope this helped you to get started exploring Gencraft and its endless creative possibilities. Check out our other step-by-step guides, and feel free to contact us at support@gencraft.com if you have any questions we didn’t answer.
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