I upgraded my AI image prompts using Gemini’s advice — specifying lighting, layouts, and even fonts changed everything

It wasn’t until I saw a tweet from Gemini on X today that I realized I’d been approaching AI image prompts all wrong.

I’ve been using Gemini, well, really its default image generator, Nano Banana, instead of ChatGPT for images ever since it launched. In my experience, it tends to get closer to what I want on the first try. That’s not to say ChatGPT is bad at images, but I often find myself refining prompts more to get there.

Still, I hadn’t really questioned how I was prompting. I’d been sticking to simple descriptions. The problem is that “decent” is about as far as that approach takes you.

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