In this guide, we’ll explore key strategies for prompt design and ways to improve the quality and stability of generated results through precise descriptions of content and style on Qwen
Prompting Tips
General:
❗️Core Strategy:
Use coherent, natural sentences to describe the scene's content (subject + action + environment), and clear, concise phrases to describe the style/composition/camera angle/quality, etc. A universal template is as follows:
[Subject Description] + [Environmental Background] + [Style Tone] + [Aesthetic Parameters] + [Emotional Atmosphere] + [On-Screen Text]
Subject Description: For a person, describe appearance, expression, and action; for an object, detail material, color, and shape.
Environmental Background: Specify the scene (e.g., "library at midnight") and the spatial relationship between elements.
Style Tone: Define the artistic style (e.g., "ink painting," "cyberpunk") for consistency.
Aesthetic Parameters: Include visual elements like composition, perspective, angle, lighting, and color tone.
Emotional Atmosphere: Define the conveyed emotion (e.g., "lively," "tense," "relaxed").
On-Screen Text: If text is needed, place it in quotes with position and font details.
💡 Tips
Maintain a consistent visual style to avoid conflicts: "The atmosphere is solemn, with a refreshing and healing tone" → "The image conveys a calm emotion with a fresh and elegant color tone."
Rephrase negative expressions into positive ones: "Avoid cartoon style" → "Create a realistic style image"; "Don’t make the image look crowded" → "The composition is simple, with the subject in the center and 1/3 of the space left empty around it."
When there is a clear use case, specify the purpose and type, such as "mobile wallpaper," "movie poster," etc.
Avoid unnecessary instructions unrelated to the image.
🌰 Detailed Example
Prompts：
A visually striking surreal illustration depicts a giant whale made of brilliant starry skies and molten gold, gliding silently through deep space. Its body is semi-transparent, revealing flickering star clusters and nebulae, with countless tiny lights falling from its tail, forming a trajectory. In the bottom corner of the image, on a massive, angular, dark-colored meteorite, a short futuristic sentence "WE ARE THE COSMOS DREAMING." is engraved in glowing, futuristic font, its light mirroring the glow on the whale. The background features a deep, velvet-textured cosmos dotted with distant galaxies. The image exudes a serene divine quality, a magnificent contrast of scale, and breath-taking details.
1. Content Description
Subject: a giant whale made of brilliant starry skies and molten gold
Environment: A deep, velvet-textured cosmos dotted with distant galaxies.
Text: "WE ARE THE COSMOS DREAMING."
2. Tone of the Image
Style: Surrealism, futuristic illustration.
Atmosphere: Serene, mysterious, divine, deep.
Other examples：
Practical Design Tips
Poster Design
Unlike typical images, poster design requires special attention to the theme, visual elements, aesthetic style, and layout of the design.
Theme Description: Explain the intended use, defining the general style of the image, such as "a promotional poster for a music festival" or "an advertisement poster for xxx product."
Visual Elements: Describe the elements included in the poster image. If text is required, place it in quotation marks and specify its position and font.
Aesthetic Style: Define the overall feeling and artistic movement of the poster, such as "vector illustration," "e-commerce style," "abstractism," etc.
Layout: Specify the desired layout (e.g., "rule of thirds," "modular composition") and where the main subject and text should be placed.
Professional Parameters: These include specific image detail and output quality requirements, such as "4K professional level" or "clear lines."
🌰 Detailed Example
Prompts: A summer eco-market event poster in a flat illustration style with bright, cheerful colors. In the center of the image is a large cartoon-style apple tree, with various handcrafted goods and organic produce stalls underneath. People are happily chatting and shopping. Sunlight filters through the leaves, creating dappled light spots, enhancing the relaxed and joyful atmosphere. The top of the poster features a large, pure light blue sky for the main title and subtitle. The bottom area is reserved for event details in a clean beige color. The main title reads "Natural Carnival," with the subtitle "Discover the Joy of Green Living." Event details include "Event Date: July 27, 2026" and "Event Location: Central Park Lawn." The organizer’s name, "Green Leaf Community," is in the top-right corner.
Other Examples:
Font Design
Font design is relatively simple; just describe the text content, font style, color, texture/feel, and the background of the image.
💡 Important: Text content must be in quotation marks.
🌰 Detailed Example
An expressive ink calligraphy piece with the text “自在” in bold, flowing cursive. The brushstrokes show rich variations in dryness, thickness, and wetness, with ink spreading naturally across rice paper, as if freshly written. Surrounding the text are faint sketches of distant mountains and a lone boat, with large areas of white space showing the slight yellowing and creases of the ancient paper. The overall atmosphere is ethereal, tranquil, and full of Eastern philosophical charm. Soft natural light shines from the side, highlighting the ink’s layers.
1. Text Content: “自在”
2. Font and Calligraphy Style
Font: Cursive brush.
Style: Bold, dynamic, with rich variations in brushstrokes and a flowing, expressive feel.
3. Color:
Ink: A gradient from deep to light ink with natural diffusion and spreading effects.
4. Texture and Feel
Ink Texture: Natural diffusion and spreading on the paper, showing the unique effect of wet and dry brushstrokes with a layered feel.
Aesthetic Parameters Prompting Handbook
Style Templates
1. 2000s Street Documentary (CCD Taste): 35mm straight-on view, direct flash; high contrast + cool green tint; candid look back; 3:2 ratio; noticeable grain.
2. Cyber Mech Character: Rain droplets on armor, surface flowing light, volumetric beams piercing through smoke; path tracing/global illumination; 8K ultra HD.
3. Food Still Life (Dark Tone Texture): Layered foreground obstruction (herbs/peppercorns), shallow depth of field, triangular composition; shadows with details.
4. Architectural Space (Order and Light): 24mm exaggerated perspective + foreground framing; hard-edge shadow geometric cuts; low saturation, cool tone.
5. Chinese Portrait (Rain Alley Night Scene): New Chinese-style high collar + velvet shawl, hair dampened by rain; misty volumetric light passing through alley lanterns, shallow depth of field, creamy bokeh; golden spiral composition; window light texture, natural skin tone reflection.
Lighting Systems
1. Light Position/Texture: Top light/side-back light/rim light/butterfly light/Rembrandt light/window light/honeycomb control light/flag cut light.
2. Atmosphere: Volumetric light/foggy beams/silhouette/high contrast/low contrast/edge highlights.
3. Mixed Colors: Dual color temperature mixed light/gel blue-green/magenta/orange/green to clash.
Color/Film Effects
1. Film Reference: Portra 400 (soft skin tones)/Cinestill 800T (tungsten blue tint)/Fuji Velvia 50 (high saturation landscape).
2. Semantic Colors: Cyber blue-green/vintage ochre-brown/Hong Kong style cyan-green/twilight orange-gold.
Post-Production and Texture
1. Cinematic Depth of Field/Natural Film Grain/Vignette/Glow/Halation
2. Local Contrast/Color Separation/Cross Processing/Sharpening with Contrast Retention
3. LUT Stylization/Film Curves/S-Curve/Color Noise Control
🪄 Ultimate Streamlined Version
Don’t want to bother with writing prompts? Too many rules to remember? Try TensorArt prompt enhancement!
Enter the workspace, input core keywords, click the Prompt Enhancement icon, and generate the full prompt with one click, easily unlocking all Qwen-Image capabilities.
Effect Comparison
💡 If you’re not satisfied with the automatically expanded prompt, you can modify it according to your needs or regenerate it.
That’s all for Qwen-image’s advanced prompt techniques. Open workspace and make your imagination come alive! 🪄
