Prompt recipes
Copy a structure, then adjust the subject, lighting, camera, and output details for your own result.
Transform this [scene photo]: same composition and structures, change to [season and time of day], adjust light and color to match, keep signage and edges crisp. Use for: mood variants of a shoot, compared side by side.
Naming what changes and what stays gives the transformation a clear split, which reduces random drift.
Take this sketch of [subject] and render it in [flat-color illustration or soft painterly style], preserving line placement and proportions. Use for: turning drafts into presentation images after checking proportion drift.
Anchoring on line placement keeps the finished version recognizable against the original draft.
Same [product] unchanged in shape and label, placed on [new surface and setting] with [light quality], shallow depth of field. Use for: alternative backdrop shots, verifying label legibility in each.
Separating 'product unchanged' from 'setting new' protects the asset that matters most in the shot.
Redraw this [photo or illustration] in [named art style], keep the subject's pose and framing, apply the style's palette and line quality throughout. Use for: a consistent style series, reviewed as a set.
A named style plus a fixed pose produces a series that hangs together instead of five different looks.
Recreate this [image] three times, changing one variable per run: [A: lighting], [B: color palette], [C: background detail]; subject and framing constant. Use for: choosing a direction with like-for-like comparisons.
Varying one variable at a time turns editing into an experiment you can actually judge.