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Practical methods and prompts you can copy to get the most out of AI.
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Effective Midjourney prompts: the method and the useful parameters
Structure, parameters, reference images and before/after: get the image you had in mind from Midjourney, not a lucky draw.
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Effective Stable Diffusion Prompts: Method, Weights, and Settings
Model choice, weight syntax, CFG, seed, and negative prompt: the method for Stable Diffusion images you can reproduce.
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Composing a scene: foreground, subject, background
Describing an AI image in three planes, with a sharp subject and a coherent background, avoids flat scenes where everything blends together. Method and a prompt to copy.
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Colors and mood: describing a palette to the AI
"Warm" means nothing to an image generator. Naming two or three colors, a light, and a saturation level produces a recognizable mood.
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AI Images and Commercial Use: What to Check
Tool license, rights in the image, trademarks, real people, transparency: what to check before using an AI image to sell.
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Inpainting: Fix Part of an Image Without Redoing It All
A six-fingered hand, an extra object, botched text: how to mask the area and regenerate only that part, with an example prompt and the limits to know.
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Creating a Logo With AI: What Works, What Gets in the Way
An image generator offers symbol ideas, not a finished logo. How to explore, test, have it vectorized, and check before adopting yours.
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Consistent Characters in AI Images: The Image-by-Image Method
Character sheet, reference images, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion: how to keep the same face and the same outfit from one image to the next.
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Product Photos With AI: Possibilities and Limits
Changing the backdrop of a real photo, creating a mood, avoiding misleading the customer: what AI allows for illustrating a product, and what it distorts.
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Realistic AI portraits: avoiding the plastic look
Smooth skin, vacant stare, catalog smile: what gives away an AI portrait, the words to remove from your prompt, and the ones that make a face believable.
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Negative prompts: how to use them well, tool by tool
Why your 40-word list is useless, how to write a negative prompt that works, and what changes between Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and FLUX.
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Art Styles in AI Images: Describing Without Imitating an Artist
Medium, period, line, palette: the grid for getting a precise, original style in AI images, without naming a living artist.
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