ai-image-promptinglisted

## Overview AI image generation is a design medium with its own grammar: the prompt is your art direction, and vague prompts produce vague images. Skilled prompting combines precise subject description, style vocabulary, compositional direction, and technical parameters — then iterates deliberately. This skill teaches structured prompting that produces consistent, art-directable results. ## When to use - Generating concept art, illustrations, or marketing visuals with AI - Creating consistent character or style outputs across images - Improving AI images that look generic or off-brief - Building prompt libraries and reusable style templates - Directing AI imagery for brand-aligned content ## Core concepts - - - **Prompt anatomy.** Subject (what) + action/context (doing what, where) + style (how it looks) + composition/lighting (framing, mood) + technical (aspect ratio, quality params). Missing layers produce generic output. - - - **Style vocabulary matters.** "Cinematic" is vague; "35mm film still, shallow depth of field, golden-hour rim light, muted teal-and-orange grade" is direction. Build a personal lexicon of style terms that work. - - - **Specificity beats adjectives.** "A cozy coffee shop" → "a corner café at dusk, rain-streaked windows, warm Edison bulbs, a barista pouring latte art, worn leather chairs." Concrete nouns outperform abstract adjectives. - - - **Negative prompting and constraints.** State what to exclude (text, watermark, ext