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.
- ugly
- tiling
- disfigured
- deformed
- low quality
- pixelated
- blurry
- grains
- grainy
- text
- watermark
- signature
- out of frame
- disproportioned
- bad proportions
- gross proportions
- bad anatomy
- body out of frame
- duplicate
- cropped
- cut off
- draft
- extra hands
- extra arms
- extra legs
- extra fingers
- extra limbs
- long neck
- mutation
- mutilated
- mutated hands
- poorly drawn face
- poorly drawn feet
- poorly drawn hands
- missing hands
- missing arms
- missing legs
- missing fingers
- fused fingers
- unnatural pose
- out of frame
- low resolution
- morbid
- blank background
- boring background
- render
- unreal engine
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.
- plain background
- boring
- plain
- standard
- homogenous
- uncreative
- unattractive
- opaque
- grayscale (optional)
- monochrome (optional)
- distorted details
- details are low
- grains
- grainy
- foggy (optional)
- dark (optional)
- blurry
- portrait
- oversaturated
- low contrast
- underexposed
- overexposed
- lowres
- low quality
- close-up
- macro
- surreal
- multiple views
- multiple angles
For cityscapes and street views
When generating images of cities, streets, buildings, and monuments, you can use the following keywords as negative prompts.
- oversaturated
- low contrast
- underexposed
- overexposed
- lowres
- low quality
- people (optional)
- pets (optional)
- cars (optional)
- animals (optional)
- solid background
- plain background
- asymmetrical buildings
- jpeg artifacts
- close-up
- macro
- surreal
- multiple views
- multiple angles
- creepy
- scary
- blurry
- grainy
- unreal sky
- weird colors
- deformed structures
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.
- disfigured
- disproportionate
- bad anatomy
- bad proportions
- ugly
- out of frame
- mangled
- asymmetric
- cross-eyed
- depressed
- immature
- stuffed animal
- out of focus
- high depth of field
- cloned face
- cloned head
- age spot
- skin blemishes
- collapsed eyeshadow
- asymmetric ears
- imperfect eyes
- floating hair (optional)
- unnatural
- conjoined
- missing limb
- missing arm
- missing leg
- poorly drawn face
- poorly drawn feet
- poorly drawn hands
- floating limb
- disconnected limb
- extra limb
- malformed limbs
- malformed hands
- poorly rendered face
- poor facial details
- poorly rendered hands
- double face
- unbalanced body
- unnatural body
- lacking body
- childish (optional)
- long body
- cripple
- old
- fat
- cartoon
- 3D
- weird colors
- unnatural skin tone
- unnatural skin
- stiff face
- fused hand
- skewed eyes
- mustache (optional)
- beard (optional)
- surreal
- cropped head
- group of people
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.
- unnatural
- unrealistic
- cartoon
- illustration
- painting
- drawing
- unreal engine
- black and white (optional)
- monochrome (optional)
- oversaturated
- low saturation
- surreal
- underexposed
- overexposed
- jpeg artifacts
- conjoined
- aberrations
- multiple levels
- harsh lighting
- anime
- sketches
- twisted
- video game
- photoshop
- creative
- UI
- abstract
- collapsed
- rotten
- extra windows
For paintings, drawings, and illustrations
When generating paintings, illustrations, digital art, pop art, or drawings, here are some negative prompts you may use.
- bad art
- photorealistic
- realism
- realistic
- stock image
- stock photo
- bad fan art
- lazy art
- text
- stacked background
- noise
- poor detailing
- human (optional)
- inaccurate trees
- inaccurate sky
- 3d
- render
- CGI
- unsmooth
- unprofessional
- bad artist
- less creative
- lowres
- grainy
Those are all the negative prompts you may use when generating images on Stable Diffusion.
