Images & Audio
Changing one thing at a time is the only way to learn what an image prompt does
Image prompts accumulate untested words because everything is edited at once, and a habit that costs a few…
· 4 min read
Images & Audio
Generating pictures and sound, and the controls that actually matter.
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Images & Audio
An image prompt describes a picture, not the scene it depicts
Most disappointing results come from writing a story and expecting a photograph, when what the tool needs is the visual facts a photographer would have decided on.
By Naina Sethi · · 4 min read
Images & Audio
Anything that has to be counted should not be asked of an image generator
A handful of failures recur across every tool in this class, they share a cause, and the practical response…
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Describing the light and the lens gets further than naming a style
Style words are the least portable and least predictable part of an image prompt, and the physical…
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Synthetic narration is punctuated speech and the punctuation is the control
Generated voice follows the structure of the text far more closely than it follows any instruction about…
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Fixing part of a picture is a different job from asking for another one
Once a generated image is nearly right, regenerating throws away everything that worked, and the skills…
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A written style specification is what makes a set of pictures look related
Images generated one at a time will not sit together, and the fix is a short reusable document describing…
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Decide the shape and the size before you write a word of the prompt
Where a picture will sit determines its proportions, its composition and how much resolution it needs, and…
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Starting from a photograph you already have is a more controllable problem
Supplying an existing picture as the basis of a generation replaces the hardest part of image prompting…
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Repairing a recording is a steadier use than synthesising one
The audio work that pays off consistently is the unglamorous kind — cleaning, transcribing and cutting real…
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Colour is requested as a mood and delivered as an approximation
Naming a specific colour in an image prompt gets you the neighbourhood rather than the shade, and the…
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Sound that sits under a voice has to be built to lose the argument
Generated music and effects are usable as background, and the properties that decide whether they work are…
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