The season shall soon be upon us and, being an artist, you want to create something to say “Happy Holidays!” with your favorite AI generator. Perhaps you've thought about making your own Christmas cards, postcard, or just a fun season image. But how to make your image pop?
The best answer I can give is to show you by presenting a prompt to play with. This is a favorite sample prompt style I’ve picked up:
A redheaded woman wearing an Christmas sweater depicting Santa Claus sits reading a magical glowing book, the central focus, a flying reindeer leaping up from the glowing pages, shimmering Snowflakes forming the words "Christmas Magic" float in the air above the woman as Christmas plum fairies dance around the room, cinematic, hyperrealistic, volumetric lighting, incredibly detailed.
That was used to generate the image attached to this article. Obviously this prompt needs a model that’s good with text. I’ve found Flux Schnell works decently for test images, but there are plenty of options for you to choose from. That said you probably don’t just want to copy and paste. So here’s where you get to show off your creativity. Ready?
First, notice how the woman is described. You can change this. Perhaps your girlfriend is a blonde, or maybe you’d rather adjust the description to be male, or maybe you’d prefer a grandmother? No problem. Just change the description.
Don’t like Santa Claus? No reason that sweater can’t depict: Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer, Christmas presents, or a Christmas tree. This is just a sample descriptor. You can put in whatever you want.
Likewise you can change the text from “Christmas Magic” to any greeting you want. The shorter the better. (Happy Holidays, Joyeux Noel, Seasons Greetings, and etcetera.)
Go ahead and play around with that prompt to get a feel for it. It’s okay to rewrite it, I tried to keep it simple ans you should be able to do much more with it. In fact you can exoand it by describing the room. Do you want a cozy fireplace or Christmas trees? Then add them.
Remember to write clear simple descriptions, at least to start with.
Going Beyond the Theme
I chose Christmas because, let’s be honest, that’s probably the easiest art for any AI model to produce. But you don’t need to create a Christmas image. Maybe you are a tabletop gamer looking to post a flyer looking for players.
Consider this:
A gamer girl wearing casual clothes sits reading a magical glowing book at a table, the central focus, a Amazon Warrior leaps off the glowing pages, shimmering smoke curls up forming the words "Gamers Wanted" that float in the air above the woman. Polyhedral dice, miniatures, and a Dr. Pepper soda are spread out on the table, cinematic, hyperrealistic, volumetric lighting, incredibly detailed.
Remember there’s virtually no limit to what you can create. So why are you still reading? Wink.
That’s it for now.
I hope this was helpful.
