Making Christmas Magic (Part 2)

This is just an Addendum to my introductory article on making Christmas Magic. Creating a fun seasonal postcard type image is fairly simple. If you like whimsical art then your descriptions should reflect this. Simple descriptions work best. Remember the more detailed and focused your prompt the closer to what you imagined that picture may be the AI output will get.

Good descriptors are key to creating seasonal themed art. In fact, in many instances, you can just add a few keywords to a Favorite prompt to tweak it's aesthetic.

Keywords and descriptive ideas you may want to use in your prompt: Christmas, Yule, Yuletide, seasonal, holidays, mistletoe, Christmas Fantasy, Christmas Magic, Christmas decor, holiday decorations, Yulelog burning in fireplace, with a mistletoe border, with a Christmas tree in background, Christmas Elves...

You get the idea. 😉

Here's a fun prompt to play with:

(Christmas Fantasy:1.1), elfin Elves, Christmas Magic, triadic colors, windswept hair, extremely high-resolution details, photographic, realism pushed to extreme, fine texture, incredibly lifelike, dynamic lighting, upon a smokey tavern stage in the City of Christmas three beautiful barefoot Christmas Elves wearing Santa hats and red and green Christmas Elf costumes battle each other with candy cane wands filling the air with the colorful sparkling word "Noel" during a Yuletide magic festival, above them a festive Christmas banner reads "Yuletide Magic", epic fantastical Christmas art, epic fantasy, vintage Christmas postcard art, Hyper-realistic, windswept hair, intricate detail, majestic, high-quality resolution, UHD, highly detailed face,distinct facial features, photorealistic,75mm, 20 million pixels,4k,8k,16k,UHD,realism,realistic,vivid,key visual, film still, cinematic color grading, depth of field, sharp focus, professional photography, masterpiece, ultra detailed photorealistic, raw, anatomically correct, Hyperrealistic, splash art, concept art, mid shot, intricately detailed, color depth, dramatic, 2/3 face angle, long shot, side light, colorful background, whimsical.

Addendum: A quick explanation. Everything after "hyper-realistic" are descriptors trying to do one thing, get a higher quality better clarity more realistic image. Is it all necessary? Probably not. You can delete it entirely and replace it with something like... "artistic, creative, extremely intricate detail, Christmas art, vintage holiday postcard art, art in style of Stephen Youll, Don Maitz, Howard David, Julie Bell, Frank Frazetta, Luis Royo,, trending on Artstation, DeviantArt, classic Christmas scene." And still get a decent, if very different looking, image. Or not replace it at all. Go ahead, give it a try.

(When done here check out my articles on crafting holiday cards. What you learned here should prove useful.)

Remember the image attached as a cover for this article used the above prompt with Lora's to tweak the result, but you can use whatever model you want. That image and more can be found in my gallery. Plenty of prompt ideas for you to remix or copy-and-paste.

Here's that same prompt without Lora add-ons:

https://tensor.art/images/799639532594004905?post_id=799639532589810603

https://image.tensorartassets.com/cdn-cgi/image/anim=true,plain=false,w=1024,f=jpeg,q=85/posts/images/794519944456031492/200f186e-c522-4cf8-8b4d-6c31cfccc832.png

[Is there a way to post images inside articles?]

I hope this has been useful.