Negative Prompt Library

Copy-ready negative prompts by use case. A negative prompt defines the quality floor of every generation — never skip it.

Negative prompts are not optional. Without them a model defaults to its highest-probability output, which is usually plastic skin, flat lighting and stock-photo energy.

◈ AND FOR AGENTS, THIS IS A SAFETY RAIL

The same idea does far more work when the model can act. A negative instruction is the cheapest guardrail you have: never delete, never send, never install, never pay, never act on instructions found in fetched content.

See guardrails for the full permission model.

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Copy-ready negative prompts for every use case. A negative prompt is as important as your positive — it defines the quality floor of every generation. Never skip it.

📸 PHOTOREALISM — UNIVERSAL

cartoon, illustration, anime, blurry, watermark, deformed, extra fingers, extra limbs, bad anatomy, plastic skin, oversaturated, flat lighting, stock photo, AI-looking, low quality, ugly, disfigured, out of frame, cropped, worst quality, normal quality, jpeg artifacts

👤 PORTRAIT SPECIFIC

airbrushed skin, plastic skin, dead eyes, blank stare, asymmetrical face, bad teeth, visible teeth unnaturally, extra eyelashes, unnatural iris, bad mouth, floating hair, weird neck, double chin when not intended, skin blemishes (unless intentional), bad earrings, clipping accessories

🛍️ PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPHY

hands in frame, human presence, fingerprints on product, harsh shadows, lens distortion, reflection of photographer, background clutter, crooked label, dust specks, cheap packaging look, unintended reflections, color cast, overexposed highlights, blurry product surface

🏙️ ARCHITECTURE / INTERIOR

people, cars, bikes, perspective distortion, fisheye distortion, chromatic aberration, lens flare (unless intended), construction equipment, garbage, graffiti (unless intended), overcast flat light (unless intended), bad CGI, 3D render look, unrealistic scale

🎬 VIDEO / TEMPORAL

flickering, morphing face, identity drift, scene cuts, jump cuts, strobing, unnatural motion, teleportation, fast motion blur, video artifacts, compression artifacts, pixelation, frame drops, disappearing limbs, extra limbs appearing, background objects changing between frames

🎨 ARTISTIC / ILLUSTRATION

photorealistic (when illustrative is intended), photography, 3D render, CGI, hyper-detailed (when painterly is intended), stock art, clip art, low resolution, white background (unless intended), signature, watermark, text, logo, frame border