Creative AI

What is Negative Prompt?

A list of things to keep out of a generation, such as text, watermarks, extra fingers or clutter, kept separate from the main prompt. Some tools have a field for it; others take exclusions in plain words.

text · watermark · clutter: left out

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A negative prompt tells the model…

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In real work

The cafe scenes kept coming back with made-up signs on the walls, so the art director added text, signage and logos to the negative prompt and reran the batch.

In the illustration

The squeegee sweeps ink across the screen; the stencil blocks the stray lettering, watermark and clutter, and the print below comes out with only the cup on a clean cafe table.

Use it in a prompt

Add a negative prompt in your creative tool for the cafe scenes: text, signage, logos, watermarks and extra fingers. Then rerun the last batch of eight.

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