🎯 Mastering Negative Prompts for Cleaner AI Images

📌 What Are Negative Prompts?

Negative prompts are words or phrases you add to the "Negative Prompt" field in your AI image generator to exclude unwanted elements. They help the model avoid generating things you don’t want in your image—like extra limbs, low resolution, or distorted features.

🏞️ Negative Prompts for Landscapes

Use these to avoid low-quality or unrealistic outdoor scenes:

• blurry

• boring

• close-up

• dark (optional)

• details are low

• distorted details

• eerie

• foggy (optional)

• gloomy (optional)

• grains / grainy

• grayscale (optional)

• homogenous

• low contrast

• low quality / lowres

• macro

• monochrome (optional)

• multiple angles / views

• opaque

• overexposed / oversaturated

• plain / simple background

• portrait

• standard

• surreal

• unattractive / uncreative

• underexposed

🏙️ Negative Prompts for Street Views

Ideal for clean, realistic urban visuals:

• animals (optional)

• asymmetrical buildings

• blurry

• cars (optional)

• close-up

• creepy

• deformed structures

• grainy

• jpeg artifacts

• low contrast / lowres / low quality

• macro

• multiple angles / views

• overexposed / oversaturated

• people (optional)

• pets (optional)

• plain / solid background

• scary

• surreal

• underexposed

• unreal architecture / sky

• weird colors

👤 Negative Prompts for People

Perfect for portraits, fashion, or model renders:

• 3D / cartoon / anime

• absent limbs / amputee

• additional digits / limbs

• asymmetric / bad anatomy

• beard / mustache (optional)

• broken / malformed body parts

• child (optional)

• cloned / duplicated face

• corpse / creepy / disfigured

• dismembered / mutated / mangled

• distorted / deformed / disproportionate

• eerie / grotesque / unnatural

• extra arms / fingers / legs

• floating limbs / hair (optional)

• group of people (if you want solo)

• missing limbs

• old / ugly / unattractive (optional)

• poor facial details / poorly drawn hands

• six fingers / merged fingers / fused limbs

• stiff face / stretched neck / elongated throat

• squint / skewed eyes

• weird colors / unrealistic skin tone

🖼️ Negative Prompts for Photorealism

To maintain natural and realistic imagery:

• 3D render / cartoon / drawing

• abstract / collapsed / creative

• extra windows / multiple levels

• harsh lighting / oversaturated

• illustration / painting / sketch

• jpeg artifacts / underexposed

• low saturation / monochrome (optional)

• photoshop / surreal

• twisted / unreal engine / video game

• unnatural

🎨 Negative Prompts for Art & Drawings

For clean, high-quality digital art or paintings:

• 3D / CGI / render

• bad art / bad fan art / lazy art

• grainy / noise

• human (optional)

• inaccurate sky / trees

• kitsch / stock photo / stock image

• photorealistic / realism

• real people (if unwanted)

• lowres / text / signature

• unprofessional / unsmooth

🔧 Additional Negative Concepts

These grouped ideas help you express things in multiple ways:

🛑 Anatomy Issues:

• bad anatomy, incorrect physiology, malformed limbs

• poor proportions, disfigured, mutated

• extra/missing limbs or fingers

🧟‍♂️ Horror-Style Mistakes:

• corpse, mangled, eerie, dismembered, grotesque

📷 Image Problems:

• lowres, blurry, jpeg artifacts, underexposed

• cropped, out of frame, watermark

🤖 Style/Media Artifacts:

• 3D render, anime, cartoon, drawing, UI elements

• text, signature, usernames

🌟 Pro Tip:

💡 Mix and match these negative prompts according to your subject type (people, landscapes, photorealism, etc.) for best results!

💬 Final Thoughts

Using negative prompts is one of the easiest and most effective ways to improve the quality of your AI-generated images. Keep this list saved, and tweak your prompts based on the subject you’re working with.

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