Workflow for building up a prompt:

https://www.saxifrage.xyz/post/prompt-engineering

hudson river school

trending on artstation

subject term (i.e. space whale) *required

style modifier (i.e. in the style of art nouveau) or artist (i.e. by alphonse mucha)

type of image (i.e. photograph of)

quality booster (i.e. trending on artstation)

extremely detailed

repetition (i.e. space whale, a whale in space)

macro 35mm photograph

moods or emotions (i.e. control the soul)

exclusion (i.e. --no plants) and mixing (i.e. by alphonse mucha:75 | by andy warhol:25)

viewpoint (i.e. through a porthole)

[format] of [subject term], a [solidifier], [perspective], by [artist:75] | by [artist:25] / in the style of [style], [variant], [booster], [exclusion]

watercolor painting

photograph of a space whale, a whale in space, through a porthole, by alphonse mucha:75 | by andy warhol:25, control the soul, trending on artstation --no plants

pencil and watercolor drawing

johannes vermeer

stained glass window

rendered in unreal engine

through a periscope

through a porthole

product photography

white background

zdzislaw beksinski

displayed on a store mannequin

modeling photoshoot

cross stitched sampler

viewed from behind

Other AI Art Tools:

pierre auguste renoir

oversaturated filter

advertising poster

sunset photo at golden hour

Further reading:

extreme close-up shot

Provide as much detail as possible

***Prompt Engineeering (this article!)

Go as abstract and absurd as you like

The DALL·E 2 Prompt Book

head-and-shoulders shot

Doesn't do realistic human faces well

DALL·E 2 Prompt Engineering Guide

katsushika hokusai

look at that detail

Celebrities are purposefully scrambled

Prompt Engineering for Text-Based Generative Art

on sesame street

Most images don't stand up to close scrutiny

An Overview of Using AI-Created Images for Ads

under electron microscope

extreme wide shot

Anything disturbing, distressing, or offensive

Prompt Engineering: The Career of Future

kindergartener drawing

Make multiple variations to find one you like

How do prompt modifiers impact #dalle2 image quality?

utagawa kuniyoshi

Remember to upscale the image you select

DALL-E 2 Unbundling

fifth grade yearbook

Check copyright and commercial use restrictions

90 minutes of iterations/in-painting to make the full image

courtroom sketch

Text always comes out as garbled gobbledygook

Thomas Voland Dall-E 2. Artificial Intelligence Creating Art, Graphics, Photos

corporate memphis

on america's got talent

over-the-shoulder shot

Look at what others are doing for inspiration

Use DALL-E to create infinite zoom movies

hieronymus bosch

1/1000 sec shutter

Use this to ideate and write better creative briefs

Generating Children's Stories Using GPT-3 and DALL·E

ancient egyptian art

in gta san andreas

It's all about trial and error - keep experimenting!

art with AI, directed and explained

shallow depth of field

Prompts must be 400 characters or less

How DALL-E 2 Actually Works

eyes wide in wonder

plain background

Style changes also change what objects are in the image

Illustrating my sci-fi short story via Midjourney (13 images + Prompts/Process included)

news crew reporting live

Steal the look and feel of popular films / TV shows

Intertwining Threads

Fix parts of images by uploading, erasing and reprompting

chinese watercolor

intricately designed

Use outpainting to extend images then stitch them together later

Keep images 'on brand' by using a consistent seed image

Twitter hashtags:

Make variations of variations to 'evolve' into unexpected territory

Visual Prompt Builder

Multiple characters in a scene tends to merge their features

Use GPT-3 (AI Text Generation) to come up with prompts

TenCent's Face Restoration

japanese wood block

Photopea | Online Photo Editor

Figma - Online Design Editor

text you input to get image

Lapa - Free Illustrations

no example given

#clipguideddiffusion

Vecteezy - Free Vector Art

disposable camera

upload a seed image

Unsplash - Free Stock Photos

1990s disney, cel shading

fill in a section of an image

Prompt inspiration:

Pexels - Free Stock Photos

double exposure

fill in around an image (also called "zoom outs")

Descriptive Words for Photography

Prompt Generator for OpenAI's DALL-E 2 (beta)

vintage looney toons

editorial fashion photography

Keep outpainting to 'zoom out' of an image

r/dalle2 on Reddit

Randomized Prompt Engineering Template

advertising campaign

describe a style (i.e. "using thick swirly brush strokes" instead of "in the style of van gogh")

AI Art Creation Wiki

12 awesome free image editing tools to supercharge your DALL·E generations

vogue magazine cover

Weird Dall-E Mini Generations

DALL·E + GPT-3 Prompt Marketplace

post-impressionism

real estate photography

Dall-E 2 Image Library

harsh flash photography

List of Aesthetics

mexican muralism

Google's Arts & Culture Hub

long-exposure photograph with slow shutter speed

Magnetic Poetry® Original Kit

pinhole photography

brueghel the elder

theatrical press release

avatar the last airbender

balloon float in the macy’s thanksgiving day parade

architectural photography from magazine

stunning photograph from lansdcaping magazine

travel photography

robert hargreaves

photoshopped image

extemporaneous

experimental expired film photo

action photography

cinematography from music video

professional corporate portrait

houdini 3D render

studio photography

political cartoon from u.s. newspaper

colouring-in sheet

stop-motion animation

instruction manual