Text to Image

Describe what you want to see with text to image, add a few stylistic hints, and Stable Diffusion online brings your text to image ideas to life. This text to image guide walks through the ideal text to image prompt structure, demonstrates how to balance text to image creativity with control, offers ready-to-use text to image templates, and shares finishing text to image tips for clean output.

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Text to image three-step prompt formula

  1. Define the text to image subject, setting, and mood in one sentence so text to image Stable Diffusion knows the core idea (e.g. "Astronaut exploring a neon jungle at night").
  2. Add text to image style direction-reference art movements, mediums, lighting, or camera gear to influence the text to image aesthetic.
  3. Finish your text to image prompt with quality boosters such as "ultra detailed, sharp focus, 4K render" and include a short text to image negative prompt to remove blur, watermarks, or anatomy issues.

Want to go deeper with text to image? Experiment with text to image prompt weights, negative text to image prompts, and seeds in the to dial in consistent text to image results.

Prompt templates

Product photography

Premium watch on a granite slab, diffused studio lighting, 50mm lens, ultra detailed, reflections, photorealistic.

Environment concept art

Floating city above a rainforest canopy, morning fog, cinematic lighting, wide angle, concept art, 4K, artstation trending.

Character illustration

Steampunk explorer with brass goggles, windswept cloak, intricate leather textures, dramatic rim light, digital painting.

Website hero banner

Minimalist SaaS dashboard UI floating in space, neon gradients, soft depth of field, clean typography, 16:9 widescreen, marketing friendly.

Fantasy landscape

Cascading waterfalls feeding a luminescent forest, dragon silhouette in the sky, volumetric light beams, matte painting, 8K widescreen.

Editorial fashion shot

Avant garde couture model posed in mirrored room, cinematic lighting, Vogue editorial style, Hasselblad medium format, ultra detailed fabrics.

Tip: Pair each template with a short negative prompt such as blurry, low-res, watermark and save your favorite seeds for future iterations.

Text to image FAQ

How long should a text to image Stable Diffusion prompt be?

Two to four descriptive sentences usually provide enough text to image guidance. SDXL handles longer text to image prompts well, but make sure each text to image adjective earns its place and avoid repeating the same text to image idea.

What is the best way to reuse text to image prompts?

Save your favorite text to image prompts along with the seed, model, and aspect ratio. Re-running the same seed in the text to image playground produces consistent text to image layouts you can tweak further.

Do I always need a negative prompt in text to image?

Negative prompts are optional in text to image but highly effective. Adding text to image terms like "blur, watermark, distorted hands" keeps text to image images clean and reduces retouching time.