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Prompt templates you can actually customize on Nanomelon

Skeletons, not copy-paste farms—change the nouns or you will fill the gallery with twins

These templates follow the five-part brief from how to write prompts: subject, pose, setting, light, medium. Paste into the homepage text box, set the matching aspect ratio, quantity 1. Replace bracketed parts. Do not publish someone else’s private photo or a celebrity likeness.

1. Environmental portrait (photo)

A [age band] [man/woman] with [one visual trait], [pose], on a [specific place with 2 props], [light direction and fill], natural skin texture, photograph, shallow depth of field

Ratio: 3:4 or 4:5. Bad customization: only swapping “blonde” while leaving “radiating sunshine.” Good customization: new place + new light. See the rewrite discussion on gallery 153.

2. Festival / object-list illustration

[Character] in [garment], riding/holding [craft object that is also a light source], [named architecture or street], night, [ambient lights], [medium: healing comic / woodblock / watercolor], tall poster composition

Ratio: 3:4. Steal the method from gallery 105—list objects (lanterns, fireworks, eaves), do not stop at “traditional.” Swap the festival objects for yours.

3. Product lifestyle (image-to-image)

Mode: image-to-image. Source: your clean packshot.

Keep the product and label identical, place on [surface], [room or outdoor set], [window or softbox direction], realistic materials, no new logos, no extra bottles

Ratio: match the packshot. Full workflow: ecommerce guide.

4. Empty room / interior concept (text-to-image)

[Room type] with [two furniture pieces], [floor and wall materials], [time of day light from a named window], uncluttered, architectural photograph, no people

Ratio: 16:9 for banners, 4:3 for editorial. Add people only after the room works, or composite them later.

5. Character sheet seed (illustration)

Full-body character design of [original character description], neutral stance, even studio light, plain grey background, clean line [anime/comic] illustration, turnaround-friendly silhouette

Ratio: 3:4. Then use image-to-image for outfits. Medium rules: anime vs realistic.

6. Soft comic slice-of-life

[Two characters], [everyday action], [indoor set with named props], warm practical lamps, soft comic illustration, rounded faces, readable hands holding [object]

Ratio: 1:1 or 4:5 for social. Prefer “holding a mug with both hands” over “detailed hands.”

7. Game concept character (illustration)

Original [class/role] character for a fantasy game, [signature weapon or tool], [two costume materials], three-quarter view, dramatic rim light from the left, painterly concept-art illustration, readable silhouette, no logos

Ratio: 3:4. Keep the character original—do not name a trademarked franchise hero. After one keeper still, use image-to-image only for armor color or background. If the model invents a second weapon, add “single [weapon] only, empty off-hand.”

8. Architecture exterior (photo)

[Building type] on a [street or hillside], [time of day], [weather], [two material notes: brick, glass, timber], architectural photograph, straight verticals, no people in the foreground

Ratio: 16:9 for banners, 3:2 for editorial. Avoid inventing a real landmark address you do not have rights to misrepresent. “Inspired by northern European timber houses” is safer than naming a protected site.

9. Book or podcast cover mood (illustration)

Cover illustration for a story about [theme], central [symbol object], [limited palette of two colors plus cream], generous negative space in the upper third for a title, flat graphic poster style

Ratio: 2:3 or 3:4. Leave the title area empty on purpose; composite real type later. Asking the model to write the title usually produces gibberish letters.

10. Food hero shot (photo or img2img)

Text-to-image: A plated [dish], [garnish], on a [surface], [side window light], shallow depth of field, food photograph, steam optional, no logos on plates

Image-to-image: upload your real plated dish, then keep the food arrangement, replace background with [set], match warm side light. Real menus should not invent allergens that are not in the dish—treat AI food as mood, not nutrition claims.

Filled example: portrait template done right

Weak: “beautiful girl sunshine.” Stronger fill of template 1: “A young woman with freckles, looking just off-camera, standing on a dry-grass hill with a wooden fence behind her, late-afternoon backlight with sky fill on the face, natural skin texture, photograph, shallow depth of field.” Set 3:4, quantity 1. That is the same lesson as gallery 153, written as a reusable skeleton.

Filled example: festival template done right

From template 2: “A child in a red festival jacket rides a horse-shaped paper lantern, old town street at night, warm glow inside the paper horse, fireworks and sky lanterns above tiled roofs, whimsical healing comic illustration, tall poster.” Compare object density with gallery 105. Change the festival objects—do not republish the same horse lantern as your only public work.

How to A/B a template without wasting credits

  1. Fill brackets once. Generate quantity 1.
  2. Change only light or only medium.
  3. If identity matters, lock with image-to-image before exploring sets.
  4. Stop when two successes are “good enough”—grids of near-duplicates teach nothing and look thin to reviewers.
  5. If you mark a result public, it still needs staff approval; read the community guidelines before publishing.

Failed and blocked jobs refund. Successful ugly jobs do not. Interface steps: user guide. Credits: models and credits. When a model refuses a prompt, see policy blocks and safe prompts.

What not to put in a template library

We do not publish jailbreak stacks, celebrity clones, or sexual content involving minors. Templates that exist only to evade filters will get the account reviewed. Keep public gallery prompts safe for strangers to read. Do not paste private emails or real home addresses into a prompt you might publish.

Also avoid stacking twenty quality adjectives (“masterpiece, best quality, ultra detailed, 8k…”) on top of an empty subject. The brackets in these skeletons exist so you invent nouns—not so you pad the string.

Pick one skeleton, change three nouns, run it on the generator. Browse more craft notes in Learn.