A Full Guide to Building a Stunning Image Library with Cascaid

Welcome to the world of Cascaid, where creativity meets innovation, elevating your artistic visions to new heights. In this guide, we’ll walk you through creating a breathtaking library of images using Cascaid. From understanding the fundamentals of prompting, to mastering its full potential. Be on the lookout for a shorter guide on creating captivating images with just simple prompts, in our next blog post.

Now, join us to discover how Cascaid transforms your ideas into visually stunning masterpieces.

What is Stable Diffusion?

Stable diffusion is the magic behind turning ideas into captivating visuals. Think of it as a smart paintbrush painting with pixels. Guided by your text prompt, this method spreads information across your digital canvas, resulting in smooth, captivating images that reflect your creative intent. In essence, stable diffusion channels the power of your descriptive words into stunning digital artworks.

So How to Write a Good Prompt?

Inspiration sometimes starts off with just the Subject like “monkey”, “a man sitting outside a restaurant”, or “a warship out at sea”. While the entire anatomy of the prompt isn’t necessary, a more detailed prompt leads to a more accurately realized idea.

Stable diffusion relies on your text prompt, so it’s essential to master the anatomy of a stable diffusion prompt. Your prompt can be as short as a single word or it can be as long as a descriptive paragraph. In either case, the more detail you provide, the better your image will be.

The anatomy includes the following:

Subject: The central focus of the image.

The subject should be specific and clear. A common mistake is not providing enough about the subject.

For example, you want to generate an image of a sports car, you may write:

Prompt: a sports car

You’ll end up generating a broad range of images such as the ones below, and may not be what you want. What kind of sports car did you want? What is it doing?

To help narrow in on generating the image you’re imagining, one trick is to use references to help control and shape the subject’s appearance.

Here are two examples showing how using references help control and shape the subject’s appearance. It’s possible to blend two references together to generate a hybrid image, which will be discussed in a different article.

Prompt: an audi R8 sports car racing on a track

Prompt: a lamborghini huracan sports car racing on a track

Medium: The digital style you envision, such as “photography”, “illustration”, “oil painting”, etc

Adding additional keywords for the medium will further shape the image, as shown below.

Building on the Audi R8 prompt, let’s use the Line Art medium.

Prompt: an audi R8 sports car racing on a track, line art

It looks great! You could stop here if you were satisfied with the image as it is. Let’s continue and see how the rest of the prompt anatomy affects the image.

Style: The artistic approach like “photorealism”, “poster art”, “vintage”, etc., of the image.

Prompt: an audi R8 sports car racing on a track, photo, vintage

You can see the subtle, yet distinctive change to the image by adding a style.

Resolution: The desired level of detail such as “highly detailed”, “sharp focus”, “4K”, etc., the image will be

Prompt: an audi R8 sports car racing on a track, photo, vintage, highly detailed, 8K

The image takes more shape based on the resolution keywords added to the prompt.

Artist: The style of known artists’ names such as “Richard Estes”, “Ansel Adams”, “Andy Warhol”, etc., the image will embody.

Prompt: an audi R8 sports car racing on a track, line art, vintage, highly detailed, 8K, by Paul Khee and Andy Warhol

The artists’ names are morphing the image and blending in their styles.

Website: Drawing inspiration from niche websites such as Artstation or Deviant Art can steer the image towards those styles.

Prompt: an audi R8 sports car racing on a track, line art, vintage, highly detailed, 8K, by Paul Khee and Andy Warhol, artstation

While the change is subtle, the image will look like what you would find on the respective website.

Additional Details: Specific elements or features you’d like to see in the image.

Prompt: an audi R8 sports car racing on a track, line art, vintage, highly detailed, 8K, by Paul Klee and Andy Warhol, artstation, trailing streaks of light

The additional details will change the image.

Color: The color(s) that will appear in the image.

Prompt: an audi R8 sports car racing on a track, line art, vintage, highly detailed, 8K, by Paul Klee and Andy Warhol, artstation, trailing streaks of light, orange

Adding color will change the colors shown in the image.

Lighting: The lighting conditions the image will have, such as “natural lighting”, “warm lighting”, “cinematic lighting”, etc..

Prompt: an audi R8 sports car racing on a track, line art, vintage, highly detailed, 8K, by Paul Klee and Andy Warhol, artstation, trailing streaks of light, orange, cinematic lighting

This completes the example of a complete stable diffusion anatomy.

Cascaid Simplifies Prompting

Cascaid eliminates the need for you to add all of the components of stable diffusion prompt anatomy. Blending in how the AI model is trained and our prompt engineering algorithms, we’re simplifying things so that entering in simpler prompts can still output stunning imagery.

Using the various Styles, you can craft great images with a shortened or simpler prompt.

Prompt: an audi R8 sports car racing on a track

Building Your Library of Images with Cascaid:

Now that you’ve mastered the art of stable diffusion and prompt creation with Cascaid, it’s time to build and curate your own library of stunning images. After you have locked in on your prompt, simply generate your own set of images in quick succession with our rapid AI image generation and invite you to unlock the potential for visuals that truly speak to the visionary within — visuals for visionaries.