Writing Prompts in Creator AI

Good prompt writing is the key to the effective use of any AI system, including the image generation feature of our design tool Creator AI. Here are a few pointers that will help you write better prompts—to get better results. 

Before we get to the pointers, it's important to note that however you write your prompt, behind the scenes Creator AI will append the "style" you select for your image as additional prompt context. The 24 style options included are essentially just predefined prompts to help yield more consistent and reliable results. However, some of them have idiosyncrasies that may yield unintended or unwanted results. Read more about Creator AI styles here.

Understand the Limitations

An important thing to note is how AI-powered image generators in general work. They don't process instructions like we do—they're making predictions based off of how they've been trained. So rather than following your instructions as a series of fully understood steps, it's considering all of the data points in your prompt as a sort of statistical cloud that it tries to approximate a result for, based off the "knowledge" it has.

This is why you'll often get results that don't match explicit instructions in your prompt. Sometimes you just have to keep trying to see what else it can come up with.

Think Visually

If you were describing what you wanted to a graphic designer (human), you could use metaphors and abstract concepts to communicate what you want. Even more so if that person was a Christian. 

It's possible there are cases that this will work with the image generator in Creator AI, but you'll always get better results if you can describe the picture you're wanting it to create in visual terms. 

First Things First

The AI tends to give priority to the things you describe first. So if you describe the subject of your image first, and then go on to describe the context that your subject is in, your result will give visual priority to your subject, no matter how much detail you give it about the setting.

Compositional Terms

It's technically not necessary because of the style presets, but you can also add your own compositional terms to achieve specific results. "Symmetrical," "extremely shallow depth of field," "[color] dominance" are examples of some terms you can try to make your generated images more interesting.