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title: 'Stable Diffusion Prompt Guide'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Pmfpoi3-A0'
video_id: '0Pmfpoi3-A0'
date: 2026-07-28
duration_sec: 683
---

# Stable Diffusion Prompt Guide

> Source: [Stable Diffusion Prompt Guide](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Pmfpoi3-A0)

## Summary

This video provides a comprehensive guide to crafting effective prompts in Stable Diffusion, covering techniques for specificity, using negative prompts, leveraging scripts for variations, and integrating ChatGPT for prompt generation. The presenter demonstrates methods to control image output, from subject and environment to lighting and style, using Stable Diffusion Forge UI and the Juggernaut XL model.

### Key Points

- **Introduction to Prompting** [0:00] — The video aims to show how to think about prompting in Stable Diffusion, methods to create prompts faster, and uses Forge UI with Juggernaut XL v10 model.
- **Be Specific in Prompts** [0:18] — Simple prompts like 'portrait of a woman' leave too much freedom to the AI. Specify image type (photo, illustration, painting) and details like 'modern photo' to get desired results.
- **Use Fixed Seed for Consistency** [0:54] — Using a fixed seed allows for consistent experimentation with prompts, enabling comparison of changes.
- **Add Environment and Details** [1:06] — Place the subject in an environment (forest, beach, studio with black background) and specify attributes like hair color, clothing, and lighting (rim light, golden hour).
- **Specify Art Styles** [2:03] — Instead of broad terms like 'painting portrait', specify 'oil painting', 'watercolor', or 'pencil drawing'. Also consider cinematic fashion portrait.
- **Negative Prompt Usage** [2:52] — List unwanted elements in negative prompt (e.g., police badge, blue light). It doesn't work perfectly; some words are stronger. Use different seeds or inpainting if needed.
- **XYZ Plot for Prompt Variations** [3:25] — Use XYZ plot script with prompt search and replace to test variations (e.g., different hair colors) and generate a grid of results.
- **Using Names for Consistency** [4:00] — Giving the subject a name (random or mix of celebrities) helps maintain facial consistency across generations.
- **Subtle Variations with CFG Scale** [4:35] — Adjust sampling steps or CFG scale for subtle variations. Use XYZ plot with CFG scale values (e.g., 5-7) to generate and choose the best result.
- **ChatGPT for Prompt Variations** [5:18] — Use ChatGPT to adapt a working prompt for different jobs (doctor, chef) by describing the desired changes.
- **ChatGPT for Full Prompt Generation** [5:51] — Ask ChatGPT to write descriptive prompts for lazy prompting; guide it in the right direction.
- **Image-to-Image with CLIP Interrogation** [6:06] — Upload an image and use CLIP interrogate to get a prompt. Alternatively, upload to ChatGPT for a more accurate description.
- **Using Art Styles** [7:09] — If no internet or GPT, use pre-saved art styles from the internet. Art styles add a saved prompt to the original prompt.
- **Weighting Words** [7:47] — Use round brackets to increase word weight (e.g., (blue house)). Use Ctrl+Up/Down to adjust weight. Avoid values above 1.9 to prevent artifacts.
- **Prompt Structure** [9:12] — Typical prompt order: art style/medium, subject, description, environment, extra info (colors, lighting, mood).
- **GPT-4o for Easy Prompting** [9:29] — With GPT-4o, simply ask for a Stable Diffusion prompt (e.g., 'watercolor painting of a cute bunny with glasses') and test it.
- **Batch Generation** [10:00] — Use 'Generate Forever' (right-click generate) or batch slider for multiple images. Use prompts from file/text box for multiple different prompts.

### Conclusion

Effective prompting in Stable Diffusion requires specificity, use of negative prompts, and tools like XYZ plot and ChatGPT for variations. The video provides a structured approach to achieve desired image outputs efficiently.

## Transcript

hey today I want to show you how I
prompt in stable diffusion how I think
about it when prompting and what methods
I use to create prompts faster I'm using
stable diffusion Forge UI and Juggernaut
XL version 10 model but you can use any
model you prefer with the settings that
work best for that model many beginners
simply prompt something simple like
portrait of a woman while many short
prompts still work in interfaces like
Focus or AI like mid journey and chat
GPT you're leaving too much freedom to
the AI
you can be more specific to get
something closer to what you have in
mind for example you can specify the
type of image you want such as a photo
illustration painting and so on as you
can see even by mentioning photo the
possibilities are still too many I got a
vintage photo so maybe you can add an
extra word like modern to specify that
you want a modern photo instead of a
vintage one to experiment better with
the prompt you can use a fixed seed you
can either use the last seed or just
type number and generate again so we
have the type of image and a subject but
let's also place the subject in an
environment maybe we can put her in the
forest or on a beach or perhaps we want
a studio photo with a black background
behind maybe I don't want the woman to
have a random hair color so I add blonde
hair in the prompt perhaps I want her
shirt to always be white so it stands
out against the black background maybe I
want the image to pop out more so I can
add a rim light coming from behind
visible in the hair alternatively I
might want a golden hour type of light
to make it look more natural if you have
a specific hairstyle in mind you can add
that to the prompt if you don't know the
name you can search on Google for
hairstyles women names for example if
you like bangs you can add that to the
prompt Additionally you can use chat GPT
to provide lists for anything such as a
list of women's clothing so I can use
like a red cardigan instead of a white
shirt let's try different types of art
styles for the photo instead of just
saying painting portrait which is a
broad category we can specify further
for example it could be an oil painting
maybe with an old look or perhaps it's a
watercolor painting we could also
consider a pencil drawing but in this
case we'd need to adapt the colors and
background to match that style uh let's
play around more with photography a
cinematic fashion portrait could look
cool
we can also mention the nationality of
the woman or the country for instance we
could generate in African woman or a
police woman since we've been so
specific with clothes it might not
include the police uniform so instead of
a cardigan let's add a police suit or
uniform let me quickly show you the
negative prompt here you list things
that you don't want to appear in your
image it doesn't work perfectly some
words are stronger than others but for
example if you don't want a police badge
you can add that to the negative prompt
now when I generate again the badge is
gone if you don't like the blue light
behind you can add it to the negative
prompt if that doesn't work you can try
different seeds um in the worst case
scenario you can use in painting to
remove it let me remove the negative
prompt and I'll show you how you can
replace different words in the prompt
scroll down and go to the XYZ plot on
the X Type search for prompt Sr on the X
values you put the words you want to
search and replace first so for example
I want to search for the word blonde and
replace it with different colors like
dark purple red and so on this way you
can see how the girl looks with
different hair colors as you can see now
it started to generate the policewoman
with different hair colors as a bonus at
the end you have a grid with the
searched word and all the other
variation words that were replaced you
can open it and see how they look in
different
colors let me dress her in a white shirt
real quick let's say I want to redo
everything but the girl's face to be
more similar between Generations one
thing that helps is to give her a name I
usually use a random invented name but
you can also use a mix of celebrities if
you want so I'll give you a name and
I'll generate again with that search and
replace script active as you can see in
the results the woman is quite similar
between
Generations because it has the same seed
and the same description and name only
the color is different let's say you
like the results of a prompt but you
just want a very subtle variation of it
you can do that by adjusting the
sampling steps or CFG scale you can do
that automatically if you go back to the
scripts and instead of prompt search and
replace you choose CFG scale for the X
values you can put between five and
seven for example now when you generate
you'll get those very subtle variations
they might be harder to see on the
screen but let's go to the folder where
they were saved and switch from one to
another as you can see some don't have
badges or the light is a little
different so you can choose the best one
from all or you can combine them in
Photoshop and keep what is best from
each I also like to get variations for
prompts using chat GPT so I have this
prompt that I know works okay and I want
a prompt adapted from different
jobs I can ask GPT to adapt it for me
and as you can see I get some nice
variations let me test quickly the
doctor prompt as you can see it added a
white coat to the prompt now let's see
how it looks like as a chef copy and
paste The Prompt using the control plus
C and Control Plus V shortcuts and
generate quickly different variations
sometimes I'm too lazy to write
descriptive prompts so I just ask chat
GPT to write it for me you just need to
guide it a little in the right direction
let's test it really quick to see what
we get seems to work okay go to image to
image and let me show you another trick
that you can use when you don't know how
to prompt but you have a photo or an
illustration upload it here and then
click on the paperclip icon that will
interrogate clip which stands for
contrastive language image pre-training
the first time you're using it it will
take some time to download a model you
can see when it's ready in the command
window but after that it should
interrogate quicker that will give you a
prompt for that image I'll copy this
prompt and test it quickly the result is
not bad could be better you can see that
it's a policewoman but she doesn't look
very similar to my image what seems to
work better and get more consistent
results for me is chat GPT I just upload
a photo to chat GPT and ask it to
describe it for me in a long sentence
let's copy The Prompt and test it to see
what we get now look at that how similar
the photos look like with the image I
gave it
now you can talk with chat GPT to change
the prompt how you want it for example
you can adapt it for a doctor instead
and this is the result if you don't have
access to GPT or the internet and you
still have problems with uh prompting
but want to get some nice generation you
can use art styles instead so if you
have a short prompt you can go to art
styles and either save your own art
styles or download some free art styles
from the internet I have an entire video
with with 260 art styles and how to
download them if you look at the prompt
description then you look at the info
for Generation you can see that you get
the original prompt first then the art
style is just another already saved
prompt that is added to the original
prompt plus the negative prompt let's
talk a little bit about how to add more
weight to certain words I have this
prompt where I added green blue house
next to each other to show you how I can
make one word more important than the
other so this is what I get for this
prompt the house has blue and green in
it I can make the words Blue House more
important if I add round brackets you
can see if you forgot to close a bracket
it shows in red in the corner where the
tokens are once I generate you can see
the house has more blue than green you
can add even more weight to those words
if you add another
bracket but there's an easier way to do
this faster you just select the words
then press control and use the up Arrow
key to add more
weight with control and the down arrow
you can reduce the weight it can also
have a negative value if you want it to
be less important to change the value
you select only the text without the
brackets and numbers and use the
shortcut again alternatively you can
just change the numbers manually you
should avoid going too high usually if
you go more than 1.9 or two values it
starts to go a little crazy and you get
something like this like an a I exploded
brain if I add a negative value to The
Gnome for example it will be less
important and you can see in the results
that it's barely visible the main
subject becomes the
house here's how I usually prompt I put
the art style or medium either first or
last then comes the subject followed by
the description then the environment and
finally any extra information like
colors lighting and mood while I was
working on the video chat GPT released a
new model version GPT 40 so now it's
even easier to just ask for a stable
diffusion prompt for what you want to
create so if I want a watercolor
painting of a cute bunny with glasses I
can get a prompt quickly now I can test
it in stable diffusion and the result is
what I asked for I can then make more
changes for example I can ask chat GPT
to make it more minimalist and add a
white background so now when I test it I
get a nice cute cartoon bunny on a white
background another thing you can do is
to turn on generate Forever by right
clicking on the generate button and
choosing generate
forever to stop it you need to
rightclick again and choose cancel
generate forever if you don't want to
let it generate forever and have a
specific number of generations in mind
like between one and 100 you can move
the batch slider to the value you want
and it will generate that number of
images alternatively if you have
multiple different prompts you can
choose prompts from a file or a text box
you can paste prompts here or upload a
text file with the prompts just make
sure each prompt is on a separate line
um I can once again use chat GPT to give
me a list of different variations of the
prompt with different animals then I can
uh copy and paste that list of prompts
in the text area when I hit generate it
will start generating each of those
prompts um as you can see I get
different animals on a white background
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