Prompt:
A whimsical and surreal photo featuring Betty Boop atop a massive, colorful fish. The fish leaps gracefully through a ring of flames, while Betty Boop maintains her balance and holds a box of Rice Krispies. The background is a blend of vibrant colors, with onlookers watching the spectacle in awe. The overall atmosphere is playful and nostalgic, evoking a sense of wonder and delight.
What I don’t get with prompts like this that the content of that long prompt feels low compared to the number of words used. It feels like you should be able to be a lot more consise and still convey the same message.
However, in image prompting, consise tends to equal pedestrian, boring, images.
Every word conveys meaning. “She balances on” has a different meaning than “riding”.
Balancing on contains information about her posture, her muscle tone, the relationship between the fish and Betty in terms of normal forces and their shared momentum.
Language can be very information-dense if precise vocabulary is used.
Ideogram has a magic prompt feature that turns concise prompts into elaborate ones. In this case I actually entered a short prompt in Ideogram but I didn’t like the output. Then I copied the magic prompt into Copilot and got what I wanted.
Prompt: A whimsical and surreal photo featuring Betty Boop atop a massive, colorful fish. The fish leaps gracefully through a ring of flames, while Betty Boop maintains her balance and holds a box of Rice Krispies. The background is a blend of vibrant colors, with onlookers watching the spectacle in awe. The overall atmosphere is playful and nostalgic, evoking a sense of wonder and delight.
What I don’t get with prompts like this that the content of that long prompt feels low compared to the number of words used. It feels like you should be able to be a lot more consise and still convey the same message.
However, in image prompting, consise tends to equal pedestrian, boring, images.
Every word conveys meaning. “She balances on” has a different meaning than “riding”.
Balancing on contains information about her posture, her muscle tone, the relationship between the fish and Betty in terms of normal forces and their shared momentum.
Language can be very information-dense if precise vocabulary is used.
Ideogram has a magic prompt feature that turns concise prompts into elaborate ones. In this case I actually entered a short prompt in Ideogram but I didn’t like the output. Then I copied the magic prompt into Copilot and got what I wanted.
Okay that one is pretty cool. Much better than the first one if you ask me.