Playground AI tutorial Prompt Engineering 101

Playground AI tutorial Prompt Engineering 101. Understanding how stable diffusion works and how to utilize negative prompts, seeds and building your prompt is probably the most valuable information I could share with you, above all the features that's available. There is so much control you can have if you understand and master the basics of prompting. In today's video I'll walk you through a process that I often use that will take an image that is not as pleasing to the eyes initially and transform it into and amazing portrait!
If you want to follow along, the info below will give you the exact same image.
Model: Stable Diffusion 1.5
Seed: 783791565
Image size 512x768
Prompt guidance: 7
Quality & Details: 30
Sampler DPM2
Time Stamps
0:00 Understanding stable diffusion
2:50 Using seeds and Negative prompts
4:32 Developing your prompt
6:08 Adding modifiers
8:25 Prompt order matters!
9:56 Use filters to polish the image
11:04 Adjusting seeds for slight improvements
13:51 Summary and final thoughts
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[@GirlOnPhire-hf4mj]

Not too fast, not too slow. An excellent teaching tool. Thank you

[@RafaelLimapoeta]

This video is essential for everyone who is starting on Playground.

[@playgroundai]

So glad to hear it! We'll dive deeper into prompting with another video to come! This may be a regular series I'm thinking of doing, so much to cover. 👍

[@sonagray3176]

Great tutorial for a beginner…will watch again to try to recreate your final image

[@adrenal3an]

I'm a lil bit shocked of how you're good at explaining things. Great tutorial. Thanks a bunch, man! Keep it up!

[@playgroundai]

I appreciate that, thank you! I'm always trying to improve on how I can better communicate in a way that's simple to understand. 🙌

[@stacey37m]

as a novice, I got pleasing results by following other people's examples after watching this I will try to expand my own prompts

[@playgroundai]

It's always great to learn from other examples but use it as a blueprint to create your own masterpieces 🙌

[@progamer69691]

awesome tutorial

[@playgroundai]

We appreciate it! Glad it was helpful. 🙌

[@nanashi334]

This is an amazing video, I hope, and many other people hope, that Playground stays free, it’s so good, and fun to use 😊

[@playgroundai]

I don’t see any reason why that would change at the moment but I can’t speak for the big boss 😊👍🏼

[@elahikarbar]

Thanks, mate! Much appreciated.

[@playgroundai]

You’re welcome! Appreciate the support.

[@wolfsangeleyes]

I had no idea you could change one number of the seed at a time. Thank you for the excellent tutorial and I look forward to the next one.

[@playgroundai]

It's like a hidden cheat code 😁 Now that you know...it can be a deep rabbit hole hahaha! Honestly though, it's not something that is well known and no one really explains it in-depth. I thought I would change that today and there is even more you can do with seeds! 👍

[@lindaqchannel725]

I am going to try today , no any idea as well

[@digigoliath]

Me too! More funtime in the Playground, yay!! ~ Philip T ((Still Experimenting))

[@digigoliath]

@@playgroundai Wow, there's more?!!! Really looking forward to your next video.

[@lindaqchannel725]

@@digigoliath Thank you 😊very much! Will try !👍👍👍

[@lucaschiavoni]

negative prompt is the key , for Playground . Use ALWAYS negative prompt...

[@playgroundai]

Not just playground, for stable diffusion in general 👍🏼

[@pedroj3432]

What do you mean by negative prompt?

[@UserSOF0]

​@@pedroj3432 just write the things you don't want it to generate, like if want a picture of desert and dont want it to generate cacti you write cactus in negative prompt

[@myohokyo]

Your video under the Playground AI name is the best one yet. Comparing my images to those at the top of the community feed left me wondering how to bridge the gap. However, with your Prompt tutorial, I feel that I have learned enough to significantly enhance my image creation skills. 👍

[@playgroundai]

That’s great! It may take some practice but knowing these simple things you are one step ahead. There is so much more I’ll be sharing very soon!

[@lindaqchannel725]

Thank you 🎉❤, helps a lot ! I did a lot images, always have 2 hands and 2 heads 😅

[@playgroundai]

Just know that negative prompts will only minimize those deformities but it does help. You can also upscale the final image if needed. Some filters you can even get away with sightly bigger sizes like 640x832 anything bigger is prone to duplicates. It’s just the nature of stable diffusion

[@lindaqchannel725]

@@playgroundai Thank you 😊 very much , I will try tomorrow!

[@vVinchi]

2 heads is worth more then 1

[@playgroundai]

😆😉

[@lindaqchannel725]

@@playgroundai love ❤️ the playground AI

[@irispapadipopulus140]

I'm so thrilled! Those videos are exactly what I have been looking for for a long time. Thank you so much! Moreover I'm learning that I won"t need 3-5 different programs for post-processing a picture, I can do all with playground. 😍

[@milaro6083]

Excellent explanation. Thank you!!

[@osamalogic-systems4482]

Thank you for those tutorials , if you please make a video for the Sampler advanced options " The diffusion sampling method. "

[@playgroundai]

Yes already in the works! It's been requested many times and I hear you! ☺👍

[@dineshkannaa]

The best beginner video i have seen. Subscribed immediately 🔥🔥🔥

[@playgroundai]

Awesome, thank you! More to come on prompting soon!

[@ronacornwall4426]

This is wonderful. Nearly every other AI tutorial uses silly cartoons as examples, it's nice to see real humans and how you can change them :)

[@playgroundai]

Glad you found it useful!

[@TheTsubarjo]

This is the kind of tutorial that I have been looking for. Thank you very much.

[@playgroundai]

You’re welcome! Glad it was helpful!

[@hermitagetaiji9451]

This is the video I have been waiting for; thankyou ! I have been goofing around with Playground and Leonardo for about 6 weeks (having fun) but frustrated that I have been unable to get an outcome that I had in mind. I have been stunned at the beauty of some of the images that AI has produced but more by 'accident' than design. However, after watching your video I was finally able to produce an image that was closest to what I had envisioned and really pleased with the outcome. Many thanks - please keep doing what you are doing. Chris.

[@playgroundai]

Hey Chris, really appreciate the positive feedback! Now that you are getting familiar with the basics, I think you'll really enjoy the next videos to come when we dive deeper into prompting. Stay tuned! 🙌

[@EskaronVokonen]

Great video as always. That trick wht the seed is crazy

[@playgroundai]

It's like an unknown cheat code! hahaha! Glad it was helpful! 👍😁

[@luckyenigmas]

YESS! This is So helpful. Thank you for the insightful explanations!

[@playgroundai]

So glad to hear this Kryss! Once you understand how this works, the next video I cover on this topic (part 2) will make a lot more sense. I want to get people away from copy and pasting prompts but to really understand what's going on. 👍

[@gustavomachado6113]

This video is a must for new or old SD users! I learned lots of new things and I have been using Stable Diffusion for some months now, amazing job and thank you so much!

[@playgroundai]

You’re very welcome and I’m happy to hear it was useful for you! 👍🏼

[@hishamzireeni8932]

The best tutorial so far as you had explained the unknown. Thanks. Please keep these structured step by step videos as they are very helpful. Further, if you don’t mind to start giving a tutorial how to build a complex image and how to change specific items in the image. I am delighted for your kindness to put the effort and time to teach us. Thanks a million

[@playgroundai]

Hi Hisham, yes we are working are way towards that video, hence why I posted this video first. Once this foundation is understood we can move forward to more complex prompting. 👍 Stay tuned!

[@hishamzireeni8932]

@@playgroundai can't wait

[@pepagarcia8800]

Awesome. Thank you. Specially amazing is that we can tweak seeds so deep. I had no idea that was possible.

[@playgroundai]

Glad you found it helpful! More to come on this topic soon! 👍

[@rgr2508]

This tutorial is KILLER! Very well explained, easy to understand (and follow!), quite user friendly. Like others said, anyone who wants to use the tool must see it.

[@playgroundai]

So happy to hear that my friend! I hope it helps you create what you envision!

[@takworld6770]

Truly helpful

[@playgroundai]

Warms my heart to hear this! Appreciate the feedback. 👍

[@michellenewton2121]

Kudos!! Your instruction was simple and detailed. Please create more.

[@playgroundai]

I appreciate it! You can start with this playlist but we have many more other tutorial on the channel. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5SVo4GfetGdppY&ab_channel=PlaygroundAI

[@djr3386]

Much needed tutorial. Thank you so much 🙏

[@playgroundai]

You're very welcome! Stay tuned for part 2! 🙌

[@AlgorithmCafe]

Thanks

[@playgroundai]

You're welcome! Thanks for the support! 🙌

[@AKSHAT_KUMAR366]

thank you Playground AI for this tutorial. Really very helpful!!!!!!! thanks a lot

[@playgroundai]

You're very welcome and I'm glad it was helpful! 👍

[@danieledefilippi581]

Great tutorial. Thanks a lot

[@playgroundai]

You're very welcome! 🙌

[@christianevensantillan2036]

Binge watching videos on this channel since I'm new to Playground, because you can use it for free and I'm shocked that you're Filipino ❤️

[@playgroundai]

Welcome aboard! 🙌🏼 why so shocked? 😆

[@christianevensantillan2036]

@@playgroundai why not? Haha

[@richardshepherd9992]

Thank you for a brilliant contribution to the world

[@playgroundai]

You’re very welcome!

[@TheElement2k7]

Wow, here I got to learn a lot more than just writing a prompt 😎👍

[@playgroundai]

Great to hear that! More to come soon!

[@user-zp1ko8pc4l]

This was super informative. it would be really helpful if you could create a tutorial on landscape image generation.

[@playgroundai]

We appreciate it! Yes this has been on my list of topics to cover. Thank you for the feedback! 👍🏼

[@jaydez_]

so cool, thank you

[@playgroundai]

Our pleasure!

[@khalidbarakat41]

Really big help l loved it, ps your voice looks like it's coming from clouds it's the kind of voices that can be used for audio books.

[@abdobuluk]

nice work i love that

[@playgroundai]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@arvidanseven862]

thank you so much!

[@playgroundai]

You're welcome! 🙌

[@Midnight-Shadow_Nightwolf]

Wow! Nice!

[@playgroundai]

Thanks! 🙌🏼

[@digigoliath]

TQVM for this gem or secret. It is one BIG rabbit hole though!! ~ Philip T @Playground

[@playgroundai]

You're welcome! Yes a big rabbit hole but super fun! 😁

[@SoumoGoswami]

This was indeed a nessecary topic

[@playgroundai]

Appreciate the feedback and support!

[@EevaLancaster]

You're Filipino? Galing. Great job.

[@marynapastukhova8119]

I love your tutorials❤ Tell me please, do you recommend to generate images via board, and then play around with them in canvas? Or I can start creating directly in canvas? Is there any difference?

[@playgroundai]

Personally I really like the ease of use on board and the simple interface however I almost always generate on Canvas now just because of my personal workflow and I like having an open canvas to work on. A lot of people start on board to generate images then bring it into Canvas to edit. It's really personal preference. We have been a discussing internally on how we can make it more of a seamless experience. 👍

[@3dhYT]

Channel subscribed, website under testing. It's better than bing or DALL-E, so there is potential.

[@saleonlineshopping4731]

Thank you. How can I indicate in the Playground prompt so that the person’s appearance is fully visible?

[@RBC_Travel_Aviations]

Wow, I was surprised to learn that you are Filipino! you rock! Is the playground Filipino-owned?

[@playgroundai]

Why such a surprise? hahaha! But I'm proud to represent! I'm just the content creator and Marketing specialist for Playground. We have an amazing CEO and a very diverse team! 🙌

[@mote10009]

great tutorial. I just started using free version. My prompt is simple and no spelling/grammar errors. I wait more than 300seconds and time runs out. I don't get to create anything. Any suggestion for troubleshoot would be greatly appreciated.

[@elifmiami]

Hello, I am struggling to generate images (backpacks,shoes,watches...) that are so close and large in the frame. I've tried using long shots or 24mm lenses, etc., but it did not work. What should I do?

[@Steve-qc7mb]

Is it possible to get the same face for multiple generations for different promts

[@chadnine3432]

I'm curious. Do previous attempts affect current generated images? IE does the program draw on what you have in your previous images?

[@playgroundai]

not at all, all images are random.

[@Zizos]

Great video I didn't know I need. How do you even afford to let us create 1000 pictures a day for free?

[@playgroundai]

Great to hear it was of some value. 👍🏼 You could always subscribe for pro to support 😊 hehehe kidding.

[@punita8148]

Can you explain how to create consecutive images like of a storybook in playground? Two images seem to be disconnected if I make 2 requests

[@playgroundai]

Hi Punita, Yes, this is definitely on my list of video topics to cover. The nature of stable diffusion is very random but there are some workarounds you can do. It can be a bit challenging to be honest but now with the new features in Canvas there are several things we can do to get some level of consistency although it's not 100% perfect. It's still a very new technology but we're not far off from being able to produce those desired results.

[@ChurroCinema]

I watched your seed tutorial video but I don't think you discussed changing the last number of the seed, what does it do exactly? Thanks

[@playgroundai]

It’s just another way to do variations with keeping some similar traits 👍🏼

[@ajayajay313]

Great tutorial as usual, one thing that i am struggling with is to complete the half body potraits or half body images of people, i am not able to complete the image. It always gives me distorted figures. Is there a specific method to do it.

[@playgroundai]

Are you talking about in Canvas? Typically I would just simplify the prompt a bit, if it's legs you are focusing on, then change the main subject to legs, leave the rest. It may take a few tries.

[@ajayajay313]

@@playgroundai thanks will definitely try and let u know.

[@James_Doyle83]

Caspersight used this and was epic

[@playgroundai]

He’s quite entertaining! 😊 appreciate the heads up! 👍🏼

[@Northstarrailroad]

So I have a question. Can you get consistent characters with playground ai like you can in Mid journey? I tried a lot but have yet to get successful. I like Playground ai but this was the deal breaker that had me look elsewhere.

[@playgroundai]

There are methods to get close but in general 100% consistency isn't possible at the moment and that includes midjourney, there will have to be some post production done afterwards. I will cover this very soon. 👍

[@nn-db4fw]

Hello and thanks for awesome tutorial! I am new to text to art, been doing this for only some months and I really love it. What is the best program in Playground AI to use for landscape or medieval village/fantasy scenery pictures? If someone could tell me a bit about this, I would appreciate it a lot. I am planning to subscribe to just one AI art creating engine, and I really like Playground AI so far. I know Midjourney makes fantastic pictures for just about everything, but I really like "underdogs" so if someone could tell me a bit how Playground AI could compete with Midjourney when it comes to nature scenery and medieval villages/fantasy scenery, I would definately be subscribing immediately. I am not interested in creating photography/portrait pictures, not at this stage at least. In advance; thanks! :)

[@aaronpeta]

The app is quite amazing but incredibly frustrating. These tutorials make it look so easy but in practice the results are astonishingly different.

[@playgroundai]

Like anything else my friend, it takes time to develop your own style and way of prompting. I've been doing this for awhile so some things come naturally to me. It did take some time to wrap my head around the concepts, what prompts worked, which filters to use etc. If there is anything I can help with please let me know. Be sure to check out the other videos to learn more!

[@ComorbidityCity7]

👍🏾

[@playgroundai]

👍🙌😀

[@TruthSpeaker-yj6xp]

❤

[@playgroundai]

🙌

[@Faro21R]

Is there a maximum length of a prompt like for example can i make a prompt with a 1000 characters ?

[@playgroundai]

Yes it's 75 tokens. Stable Diffusion models have a token limit, which refers to the maximum number of words or phrases that can be used in a prompt. Tokens are not the same as words, as the model breaks down text into smaller units known as tokens. You can use something like this to check your prompts platform.openai.com/tokenizer

[@alishabeez]

01-02-24 Does the same apply for Stable Diffusion XL?

[@playgroundai]

Pretty much except you don’t need as many negative prompts with SDXL

[@chunxinjiangnan-ts6lj]

哈哈，非常受用，给老板点赞！

[@playgroundai]

You're welcome! Glad it was helpful 👍

[@vVinchi]

first!

[@playgroundai]

Too fast my friend! ☺🙌

[@EarningTechniquesCorner]

When I click on generate original picture also changes and new one comes..how can i avoid this

[@playgroundai]

You want to use your seed number, watch this video here kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIu2Z4aKZ6d3gdk

[@Olokunful]

Some images don't have prompts. How are prompts hidden on playground ai?

[@playgroundai]

Yeah some people I guess don't want to share their prompts, what they most likely do is bring the image into img2img, regenerate the image at 100% strength and then use the prompt box to put in a short description.

[@sportcrumbs8592]

How to get consistent person in many style

[@adroitws1367]

why my seed section greyed out? i cant edit it at all

[@playgroundai]

you can access it if you generate 1 image at a time. Change it to 1, then uncheck the box.

[@adroitws1367]

@@playgroundai oh i see btw what difference between 'use in image to image' with 'create variant'?

[@supergamingchannel2261]

Please add more filters, soo many good filters are missing from playground.

[@playgroundai]

Which would you recommend?

[@nagawahyudi]

how many max word for promt

[@playgroundai]

75 roughly, however that could include commas too. A helpful rule of thumb is that one token generally corresponds to ~4 characters of text for common English text. This translates to roughly ¾ of a word (so 100 tokens ~= 75 words). This is a tool you can use to check your prompts. platform.openai.com/tokenizer

[@nagawahyudi]

thx so helpfull@@playgroundai

[@olgpotapenko2085]

can't join discord - "invite is invalid". How can I do that?

[@playgroundai]

Sorry about that, will fix it....try this link for now discord.gg/playground-ai-1013195759178498068

[@olgpotapenko2085]

​@@playgroundai thank you very much

[@zacharysherry2910]

Don't you hate it when you get ready for work and you go outside and then...you have a double torso?

[@playgroundai]

LMAO! 😂

[@SoumoGoswami]

0:22 😂

[@playgroundai]

😁☺

[@renanmesquita5186]

There are some cut on the video where he doen't show whats happening like whem he changes to realistic vision... it's not simple to follow him.

[@playgroundai]

The only thing happening different was the generation times and other images created, same prompt was used during those steps, nothing different except changing the filters. Is there something you want to clarity on?

[@omarfarukmonster3459]

The free Ai generators get sucks when they make landscape

[@playgroundai]

I think you just have to know how playground works, why don't you start here kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWiWqq2PotN5l5osi=_r215F7mHx7JlgZn

[@afnanbarbie2381]

Sometimes , pictures are just loading

[@asifzaman678]

1.25x is perfect

[@rp7438]

no extra fingers

[@minimalpoint935]

I think they should not use the word engineer, especially since it is generally used for people who study careers that last at least 5 years and what you need to learn in this field is an afternoon or hours.

[@playgroundai]

It's just what it's called in the AI space.

[@minimalpoint935]

​@@playgroundaiVargas Llosa said that the language should be as clear and concise as possible, this does not give clarity, it is as if from one day to the next we call a cook a doctor.