Tag comparisons

One seed, one base prompt, one sampler — and a single tag changed. What a tag actually does is hard to put in words, so each set was rendered, placed side by side, and written up cut by cut.

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Camera Angles & Framing

Camera height — from above, from below

How different are the four tags that move the camera up and down?

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Which way the subject faces

How precisely do the tags that turn a subject actually turn them?

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Framing — how much fits in

How many steps of framing can a single tag actually give you?

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Lens and tilt

What does each of the tags that bend or tilt the frame actually touch?

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Lighting Techniques: 10 Methods Compared

Where the light comes from

What shadow does each light-position tag put on a face?

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Rim light — which tag actually makes it

Does typing rim light actually put light on the outline?

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What kind of source

How far do colour and quality of light decide the time and place?

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Dramatic treatment

How much of painterly lighting vocabulary survives into an AI model?

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Air and texture

What do the tags that make light itself visible actually add?

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Composition & Quality Tags Guide

Medium — what it looks painted with

How far do medium tags like watercolour and oil carry on an anime model?

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Line and colouring

Can a tag change how the lines and the colouring are handled?

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Style tags this model ignores

Are there tags that simply do nothing when you type them?

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Does stacking quality tags actually help?

Does adding masterpiece, best quality and amazing quality make the picture better?

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Negative Prompt Guide

How much negative prompt is enough

Does a longer negative prompt make the picture better?

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Prompt Writing Basics

Building a prompt up

What locks down as you add one clause at a time?

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Themed Prompt Recipes: 10 Recipes

Twelve recipes, rendered as written

Type the recipes as published — do you get the pictures they promise?

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Theme

Genre — one word rebuilds the world

How much does a single genre word change?

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Era — how much of a decade carries

Does a decade tag actually produce that decade?

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Art movements

Can you summon ukiyo-e or art nouveau by name?

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Background

Natural settings bring their own light

Does one background word also set the light and the palette?

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City and interiors

Do interiors change the composition too?

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Plain backgrounds — when only the subject matters

What changes when you empty the background?

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Face/Expression

Positive expressions

How far apart are the tags that ask for a smile?

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Negative expressions

How far do anger and sadness separate?

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Complex expressions

How far do the expressions without a simple name get?

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Color Palette

Within one red — does the model tell them apart?

Does it actually draw scarlet differently from oxblood?

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Within one blue

Do navy and midnight blue come out different?

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Neutrals — not all whites are the same

Does the gap between ivory and greige show up at all?

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Focus

Where the eyes go

How much does one gaze tag change the read of a person?

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What the eyes are on

Name what she looks at — does the object appear too?

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Verb/Action

Motion — what separates it from a pose

Does an action tag change the pose, or make movement?

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Everyday actions bring a place with them

Does an action tag build the background too?

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Expressive actions

How precisely do the body's expressive actions land?

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Accessories

Headwear

Do hat tags get the shape right?

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Eyewear

Does it tell one kind of glasses from another?

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Masks — what is left when the face goes

Do mask tags know the shape and how it is worn?

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Appearance/Face

Hairstyle

Do hairstyle tags build the actual shape?

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Eyes — colour and pupil shape

Specify a pupil shape — does it draw it?

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Wings — the kind sets the silhouette

Name a kind of wing — does the structure change with it?

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Pose

Ways of sitting

Does it tell one way of sitting from another?

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Standing variations — which one actually moves

Do subtle variations on standing survive as tags?

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Leaning — and on what

Name what she leans on — does it appear?

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Character

Fantasy roles bring a whole costume

How much of an outfit does a job title build?

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Real-world professions

How accurate are the jobs that come with a uniform?

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Stage and studio — where it breaks down

Can a job without a uniform be shown at all?

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Texture / Surface

How far do texture tags get?

Does asking for metal or gloss change the surface?

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Clothing

Outerwear — how the silhouette shifts

Name a kind of coat — does the cut change with it?

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Knitwear — weave and neckline

Does the knit pattern itself get drawn?

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Traditional dress

Does it know these garments structurally, or only by association?

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Body Type

Skin tone

Do skin-tone tags move in steps?

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Fantasy skin colours

Ask for a non-human skin colour — does anything else change with it?

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Build — on a male subject

Do build tags move the silhouette in steps?

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Age

How much age reaches the face

Can an age tag make an older character?

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