Want to make your AI-generated images look amazing? It all starts with the right prompt. In this post, I’ll take a basic prompt—“A beautiful painting of a dense forest with a cozy wooden house”—and show how small tweaks can make a huge difference.
With each step, I’ll add simple touches—like picking a time of day, adding some color, and setting the scene. You’ll see how just a few extra details can make your images feel real and full of life.
Prompt: A beautiful painting of a dense forest, a small rustic wooden house nestled among the trees.
Steps: 60
Seed: 1371433857
CFG Scale: 7
To truly bring an image to life, incorporating time of day and lighting can make a huge difference. These elements set the overall mood and atmosphere, whether you want a scene that feels warm and inviting or mysterious and enchanting.
Prompt: A beautiful painting of a dense forest at dawn, soft golden light filtering through the trees, a small rustic wooden house nestled among the trees.
Now that the picture has a bit more life, we can complete it by adding seasonal touches to create a rich, detailed atmosphere. Since it’s currently autumn, I’ll use this season as inspiration to show how to add those finishing touches for a warm, fall-inspired look.
Prompt: A beautiful painting of a dense autumn forest at dawn, soft golden light filtering through red and orange leaves, a small rustic wooden house nestled among the trees.
With atmosphere and lighting in place, we can now focus on textures and details to enrich the image. By adding specific elements—like delicate wildflowers or moss on tree trunks—we can make the scene feel more immersive and lifelike.
Prompt: A beautiful painting of a dense autumn forest at dawn, soft golden light filtering through red and orange leaves, moss-covered trees and wildflowers in the foreground, a small rustic wooden house nestled among the trees.
After we’ve shaped the mood, style, and details, it’s time for the final touch—adding emphasis to key qualities. This step is helpful when you want to prioritize certain colors, objects, or features within the image. By specifying priority levels, you guide the AI to focus more on these elements, ensuring they stand out.
How to Set Priority Levels
To emphasize a specific element, add it in parentheses or round bracket () followed by a number in round brackets to set its priority. A higher number increases its importance in the image generation, making the AI more likely to include or highlight it.
- Example: If you want a lake to be prioritized in the image, you should set priority to (lake:1.1) or more . This will prompt the AI to prioritize the lake over other details in the scene.
Quick Tip for Adjusting Priority
You can also adjust priority quickly by selecting the text you want to emphasize and using the shortcut Ctrl + ↑ or ↓. This lets you fine-tune the priority level, making it easier to experiment with different values.
By strategically assigning emphasis to elements like colors (red:1.2), objects (wooden house:1.4), or textures (soft light:1.3), you give the AI clear guidance on what to focus on, ensuring these qualities stand out in the final image.
Prompt: A beautiful painting of a dense autumn forest at dawn, (Masterpiece:1.3), (high detail:1.4), soft golden light filtering through vibrant red and orange leaves, moss-covered trees and delicate wildflowers in the foreground, a small rustic wooden house nestled among the trees.
Multi-option conditioning for flexible creativity
If you don’t know which option to choose from, you can use multi-option conditioning for stable diffusion. Example:
[option1 | option2] by giving your options in brackets and dividing them by a pipe you can make stable diffusion choose one option of your choice. This is good if you for example want to set the color of a person’s shirt in an image, like this: “, [red | blue] T-shirt,”.
Negative Prompt
Negative prompt used in whole test: low quality, blurry, oversaturated, distorted, deformed, low detail, washed out, muted colors, harsh lighting, busy background, artificial colors, unnatural lighting, modern elements, large crowds, cluttered composition, digital artifacts, overly bright, flat lighting, stiff poses, camera noise, low resolution, out of focus, excessive shadowing, high contrast, overly sharp edges, cityscape, urban elements, modern buildings, roads, vehicles, neon lights, technology, people, human-made objects, futuristic style, incorrect anatomy