Best Negative Prompts in Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion lets you create images using just text prompts but if you want them to look stunning, you must take advantage of negative prompts. For those of you who don’t know, negative prompts are things you want the image generator to exclude from your image creations. You can use them to remove specific elements, styles, or environments when generating your desired images.

If you’re wondering what kind of negative prompts to use and when to use them, we’ve compiled lists of negative prompts that you can add to create different genres of images on Stable Diffusion.

General negative prompts for better images

To generate images of higher quality, you can use these general prompts that would work for all kinds of images you want to create using Stable Diffusion or any other image generator.

amputee
autograph
bad anatomy
bad illustration
bad proportions
beyond the borders
blank background
blurry
body out of frame
boring background
branding
cropped
cut off
deformed
disfigured
dismembered
disproportioned
distorted
draft
duplicate
duplicated features
extra arms
extra fingers
extra hands
extra legs
extra limbs
fault
flaw
fused fingers
grains
grainy
gross proportions
hazy
identifying mark
improper scale
incorrect physiology
incorrect ratio
indistinct
kitsch
logo
long neck
low quality
low resolution
macabre
malformed
mark
misshapen
missing arms
missing fingers
missing hands
missing legs
mistake
morbid
mutated hands
mutation
mutilated
off-screen
out of frame
out of frame
outside the picture
pixelated
poorly drawn face
poorly drawn feet
poorly drawn hands
printed words
render
repellent
replicate
reproduce
revolting dimensions
script
shortened
sign
signature
split image
squint
storyboard
text
tiling
trimmed
ugly
unfocused
unattractive
unnatural pose
unreal engine
unsightly
watermark
written language

Best Negative Prompts for different instances

When you’re creating images with a certain style or environment, you may want to add negative prompts that are more relevant to the type of art you’re about to generate. You can use these keywords for generating images on other AI image tools as well provided that you know how to add them in the generator that you choose.

Note: Some of these keywords may be repeated as they can be relevant across multiple categories of pictures.

For landscapes

The following keywords can be used as negative prompts when you’re creating images of a landscape, natural beauty, or scenic view on Stable Diffusion.

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
multiple views
opaque
overexposed
oversaturated
plain
plain background
portrait
simple background
standard
surreal
unattractive
uncreative
underexposed

For cityscapes and street views

When generating images of cities, streets, buildings, and monuments, you can use the following keywords as negative prompts.

animals (optional)
asymmetrical buildings
blurry
cars (optional)
close-up
creepy
deformed structures
grainy
jpeg artifacts
low contrast
low quality
lowres
macro
multiple angles
multiple views
overexposed
oversaturated
people (optional)
pets (optional)
plain background
scary
solid background
surreal
underexposed
unreal architecture
unreal sky
weird colors

For images with portrait shots of people and pets

You can create realistic-looking images of people and pets on Stable Diffusion provided that you add these keywords as negative prompts.

3D
absent limbs
age spot
additional appendages
additional digits
additional limbs
altered appendages
amputee
asymmetric
asymmetric ears
bad anatomy
bad ears
bad eyes
bad face
bad proportions
beard (optional)
broken finger
broken hand
broken leg
broken wrist
cartoon
childish (optional)
cloned face
cloned head
collapsed eyeshadow
combined appendages
conjoined
copied visage
corpse
cripple
cropped head
cross-eyed
depressed
desiccated
disconnected limb
disfigured
dismembered
disproportionate
double face
duplicated features
eerie
elongated throat
excess appendages
excess body parts
excess extremities
extended cervical region
extra limb
fat
flawed structure
floating hair (optional)
floating limb
four fingers per hand
fused hand
group of people
gruesome
high depth of field
immature
imperfect eyes
incorrect physiology
kitsch
lacking appendages
lacking body
long body
macabre
malformed hands
malformed limbs
mangled
mangled visage
merged phalanges
missing arm
missing leg
missing limb
mustache (optional)
nonexistent extremities
old
out of focus
out of frame
parched
plastic
poor facial details
poor morphology
poorly drawn face
poorly drawn feet
poorly drawn hands
poorly rendered face
poorly rendered hands
six fingers per hand
skewed eyes
skin blemishes
squint
stiff face
stretched nape
stuffed animal
surplus appendages
surplus phalanges
surreal
ugly
unbalanced body
unnatural
unnatural body
unnatural skin
unnatural skin tone
weird colors

For photorealistic photos

Creating photorealistic images on Stable Diffusion requires you to eliminate styles and elements that may not be suitable for generating realism. You can thus use these keywords as negative prompts to make sure the images that get generated look close to being natural.