Stability Seconds: How to Improve Your Prompts
In this week's Stability Seconds, we’re getting you up to speed on how to use simple prompting techniques to create more precise images faster by not having to rewrite your prompt. Here’s how:
Use positive and negative prompts: Combine positive prompts to describe what should appear in the image, like “an editorial close-up,” and negative prompts to guide the model away from unwanted elements, such as “low resolution.”
Create prompt journals: When using Stable Image Ultra, try the prompt journal node to store list of prompts directly into your workflow. This keeps your best prompts in one place, so you can easily reuse them or build on them later.
Utilize wildcards: A wildcard adds variety to your prompt by randomly choosing a word from a list you create, containing things like colors, objects, and styles. You save that list as a text file in the inputs folder and connect it to a trigger word node. Now, when you type @wildcard in your prompt, the node swaps it with a random word from your list.
From there, you can use Stable Image Ultra to try these prompting techniques on ComfyUI through its native API nodes, or access the model directly on the Stability AI API.
If you’re catching up, last week we shared how to use image-to-image for style transfer. You can check it out here if you missed it.
