AI Image Generators, Technology, and Prompt Design
How to get perfect AI image prompts using an AI writer to generate the text
Automated prompt engineering — it writes itself
There are no limits to the possibilities of AI text-to-image art — except your own imagination. And there’s the problem: it can be difficult to come up with ideas for what images you want the AI to generate next. After engineering hundreds, even thousands, of text prompts, you eventually grind to a halt.
In the future, Prompt Paralysis is going to become a real issue, like Writer’s Block or SEO Burnout. I don’t know a single person in the AI Generative Art field who hasn’t already driven themselves to exhaustion at some point.
One easy solution is to use an AI writer to generate the text prompt for you, hassle-free, and avoid the frustration that can come from prompt paralysis.
Automated Prompt Engineering with LIGHTBULB and Jasper AI
This is where an AI writer can come in handy. With a few clicks, you can have a never-ending supply of prompt ideas. AI can analyse your content and produce prompts to generate images that are on-brand and on-topic.
If you’re interested in trying this out, you can run my workflow below.
I call it LIGHTBULB
You’ll need a free trial of Jasper AI to run LIGHTBULB, but you can use the text prompts it creates anywhere: Midjourney, Dall-E-2, Stable Diffusion, StarryAI, or whatever other AI Text-to-Image Generator you prefer to use.
Here’s how LIGHTBULB works:
First, open the Recipe. A Jasper AI recipe is a repeatable workflow. The commands use NLP (natural language processing) so you don’t need to worry about coding. You can find my LIGHTBULB Recipe below:
However please make sure to sign up for a Jasper AI free trial first so you don’t miss out on the Friends and Followers 10,000 bonus credits. I also make a commission at no extra cost to you, which helps keep the lights on:
Once you’ve signed up and accessed my LIGHTBULB Recipe, click Run. This will open a new doc in the Jasper AI content editor, with all the commands you need to generate your text prompt already preloaded.
There are two parts to the LIGHTBULB Recipe.
- First, you’ll input source material that the AI will use to generate your text prompt. Put in something that inspires you that you’d like to transform into art (a poem perhaps), or content that you’d like to illustrate (like a blog post). Your seed can be up to 3000 characters.
- Simply run the Command. Hit CMD + Enter (or CTRL + Enter on PC). Hold down SHIFT to retain the Command onscreen; this is useful if you want to rerun the same command to give more options to choose from.
- Your text prompt will be generated in seconds.
Give the prompt a quick edit and it’s ready to use. I use Jasper Art. It’s $20 p/m for unlimited generations, and the outputs are comparable to Dall-E-2.
And that’s it! Give it a try and see what you can create.
If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments below and I’ll be happy to help. I’m always looking for ways to make my workflows more efficient and user-friendly for my followers.
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BONUS TIPS: Generate Alt Text, already primed for SEO!
We all know how important SEO is, but it can be a pain to remember to add Alt Text every time you post an image. With LIGHTBULB, your images come with optimized Alt Text already included! Just copy and paste this extra command below your text prompt to automatically generate Alt Text:
> write an Alt Text description for the above image. Incorporate keywords from the original content for added SEO.
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