Metadata
- Author: Rob Laughter
- Full Title:: 10 Image Prompting Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: LLMs,
- URL:: https://roblaughter.medium.com/10-image-prompting-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them-244f972d0c2a
- Read date:: 2025-05-09
Highlights
describe the details of the image that you want the model to produce. See my Prompt Pyramid method for structuring effective image prompts. (View Highlight)
Your prompts are too long. (View Highlight)
Be decisive and clear about what you want to see in the image. (View Highlight)
When in doubt, check the model card and note how the sample images have been prompted for, then emulate that prompting style. (View Highlight)
Effective image prompts tend to be clear, concise, and focused almost entirely on the visual elements of the scene. (View Highlight)
Negative prompts are more of a nudge that guides the model away from the concepts in your negative prompt. (View Highlight)
Every image generator has its own syntax—the markup that you add around your prompt to make the model behave differently. (View Highlight)
Prompting alone often isn’t sufficient for creating the image you’re envisioning. There is a whole suite of tools to help you produce a final image, and many of them offer more control than prompting alone. (View Highlight)