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6 Best Tips From OpenArt’s New Prompt Book

The "Stable Diffusion Prompt Book" by OpenArt has tons of helpful insights to help you craft better prompts and get more out of text-to-art generators.

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Daniel Nest
Nov 03, 2022
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Guys!

OpenArt just released a free “Stable Diffusion Prompt Book.”

It’s jam-packed with detailed tips and examples for crafting better, more intentional prompts. All accompanied by great demo visuals.

Honestly, if you’re at all interested in AI art and want to upskill, go grab the book right now!

But it’s quite detailed, so it takes a while to sift through.

Luckily, I went ahead and picked out six of the most actionable takeaways.

Here you go:

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Tip #1: Word order matters

AI algorithms tend to prioritize words according to their placement in the prompt.

Example: “Table with a red vase on it” is less effective than “Red vase on top of a table” if the “red vase” part is important to you.

Here’s what you get using the two different prompts for two random seeds:

Comparison of images for different prompts with "Red vase" in them

Quite a difference, right?

None of the lower examples actually end up with a red vase.

Tip #2: Learn your modifiers

There’s a huge numb…

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