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To get the best results from Google Pics, consider these best practices for writing effective prompts:
Best practices for writing prompts
- Be specific and detailed: Clearly describe the subject, actions, setting, and mood. A descriptive prompt helps Google Pics better understand your intent.
- Instead of: "A cat."
- Try: "A fluffy ginger cat curled up and napping peacefully on a sun-drenched windowsill, with soft natural light."
- Use positive framing: Describe what you want in the image, rather than what you don't want (e.g., "empty street" instead of "no cars").
- Define the scene: Include details about the environment, time of day, weather, and lighting. This sets the image's atmosphere.
- Examples: "Golden hour, bustling city street, neon lights," or "Misty morning in an ancient forest, dappled light."
- Specify artistic style: Guide Google Pics on your desired aesthetic. Use art styles, photography techniques, or reference famous artists.
- Examples: "Oil painting style," "photorealistic," "sci-fi concept art," "watercolor illustration,".
- Control composition, perspective, and camera: Describe how to frame the scene, using photographic and cinematic terms.
- Examples: "Close-up portrait," "wide shot overlooking a valley," "from a low angle," "symmetrical composition."
- Camera terms: Request a "low angle shot with a shallow depth of field (f/1.8)," "wide-angle lens," or "macro lens."
- Hardware: Specify camera types like: "cheap disposable camera", “Cinema-quality, wide-angle camera” for specific visual results.
- Use strong keywords: Employ powerful adjectives and adverbs to enhance your description.
- Examples: "Vibrant," "serene," "dynamic," "futuristic," "moody," "intricate," "minimalist."
- Emphasize materiality and texture: When describing objects, define their physical makeup (e.g., "navy blue tweed" instead of "suit jacket," or "ornate elven plate armor, etched with silver leaf patterns" instead of "armor").
- Design your lighting: Tell Google Pics exactly how the scene is illuminated.
- Studio setups: "three-point softbox setup" to evenly light a product.
- Dramatic effects: "Chiaroscuro lighting with harsh, high contrast" or "Golden hour backlighting creating long shadows."
- Define the color grading and film stock: Specify the texture and color for the emotional tone.
- Examples: "as if on 1980s color film, slightly grainy" for a nostalgic vibe, or "Cinematic color grading with muted teal tones" for a modern aesthetic.
- Iterate and refine: Start with a simpler prompt and gradually add more detail or modify existing elements based on generated results. Adjust your prompt if you do not get desired results.
- Review generated images to determine what worked.
- Modify prompt aspects like color, lighting, or objects.
- Specify elements to exclude. For example, "no background clutter" or "without shadows."
Create visuals with frameworks
For more complex or specific visual generation actions, you can use these frameworks:
Image Generation (Text-to-image without references)When starting with a blank canvas, describe the scene narratively.
Formula: [Subject] + [Action] + [Location/context] + [Composition] + [Style]
Example prompt: A striking fashion model wearing a tailored brown dress, sleek boots, and holding a structured handbag. Posing with a confident, statuesque stance, slightly turned. A seamless, deep cherry red studio backdrop. Medium-full shot, center-framed. Fashion magazine style editorial, shot on medium-format analog film, pronounced grain, high saturation, cinematic lighting effect.
Reference images guide Google Pics. They help generate new images matching your desired style, color, or composition. You can combine multiple reference images to guide the final output, which is useful for maintaining character consistency or merging a specific product into a new environment.
Formula: [Reference images] + [Relationship instruction] + [New scenario]
Examples of prompts using reference images:
- "Using the attached napkin sketch as the structure and the attached fabric sample as the texture, transform this into a high-fidelity 3D armchair render. Place it in a sun-drenched, minimalist living room."
- "Use the blue in this image as the color for the background of my new image."
- "Generate a portrait in the artistic style of this reference image, but featuring a different person."
- "Create a landscape scene with the same color palette and mood as the uploaded image, but set in the mountains."
- "Design a new product shot, adopting the specific lighting and shadow patterns from this reference image."
- "Recreate this object, but place it in a futuristic city environment, maintaining its original texture and general shape."
- "Apply the composition and overall aesthetic of this painting to a modern photograph."
Google Pics excels at rendering sharp, legible text. To get the best typographic results:
- Use quotes: Enclose your desired words in quotes (e.g., "Happy Birthday" or "URBAN EXPLORER").
- Translate: Write your prompt in one language and specify a target language for the text output.
Example prompt: A high-end, glossy commercial beauty shot of a sleek, minimalist nude-colored face moisturizer jar resting on a warm studio background. The lighting is soft and radiant. Next to the product, render three lines of text with the following exact styling: For the top line, the word 'GLOW' in a flowing, elegant Brush Script font. For the middle line, the text '10% OFF' in a heavy, blocky Impact font. For the bottom line, the text 'Your First Order' in a thin, minimalist Century Gothic font. Then translate the text into Korean and Arabic.