The Starter Pack

Ten prompts that teach the four techniques every AI image prompt relies on.

If you are new to AI image generation, the hardest part is not writing a prompt — it is understanding why one prompt produces exactly what you pictured and the next one produces something unusable. This pack is ordered to teach that, not just to hand you results. The first few entries are deliberately simple subjects where the only variable is lighting and framing, so you can see how much of the outcome is decided before any style word appears. The middle entries introduce negative constraints and settings — the point where most people stop guessing and start controlling. The last few are composed scenes with several elements competing for attention, which is where prompt order and specificity begin to matter more than adjectives. Every prompt here is published with the exact settings that produced its example image, so you can reproduce it first and only then start changing things. Work through them in order, change one clause at a time, and read the usage notes on each entry — they explain which single word is doing the heavy lifting and what breaks when you remove it.

10 prompts · every one tested and published with its exact settings