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How to write negative prompts
How to write negative prompts

Use negative prompts [ ] to make sure your Forges do not include items you specify.

Updated over a week ago

You might notice that sometimes your generated asset files have weird results like extra heads, limbs, fingers, etc. You can tell the model to try and get rid of these by explicitly calling them out.

In Layer, surrounding words with [ and ] will cause them to be read as a negative prompt, meaning that Layer will try to exclude such descriptors from the generation process.

If your generations frequently feature things you don’t like, try including them in [brackets] to refine your asset generation!

For example:

Without negative prompt

A fire breathing dragon blasts fire towards ground, highly detailed,
grainy, realistic, unreal engine, octane render, bokeh, vray, houdini render, quixel megascans, depth of field, 8k uhd, raytracing, dramatic,

With negative prompt

A fire breathing dragon blasts fire towards ground, highly detailed,
grainy, realistic, unreal engine, octane render, bokeh, vray, houdini
render, quixel megascans, depth of field, 8k uhd, raytracing, dramatic,
[ugly, 2 heads, duplicate, blurry, abstract, disfigured, deformed,
cartoon, 3d, disfigured, bad art, poorly drawn, extra limbs, close up,
b&w, weird colors, blurry, watermark, blur haze, watermark, elongated
body, cropped image,out of frame,draft,deformed hands, twisted fingers,
double image, malformed hands, multiple heads, extra limb, ugly, poorly
drawn hands, missing limb, cut-off, over saturated, grain, low res, bad anatomy, poorly drawn face, mutation, mutated, floating limbs,
disconnected limbs, out of focus, long body, disgusting, extra fingers,
gross proportions, missing arms, mutated hands, cloned face, missing legs]

The negative prompt in this prompt is:

[ugly, 2 heads, duplicate, blurry, abstract, disfigured, deformed, cartoon, 3d, disfigured, bad art, poorly drawn, extra limbs, close up, b&w, weird colors, blurry, watermark, blur haze, watermark, elongated body, cropped image,out of frame,draft,deformed hands, twisted fingers, double image, malformed hands, multiple heads, extra limb, ugly, poorly drawn hands, missing limb, cut-off, over saturated, grain, low res, bad anatomy, poorly drawn face, mutation, mutated, floating limbs, disconnected limbs, out of focus, long body, disgusting, extra fingers, gross proportions, missing arms, mutated hands, cloned face, missing legs]

You can use it in most Forges and it will help to produce better results.

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