Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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In Part 5 of our Beginner Guide to AI Art, we invited long standing community member, Pookienumnums, to come and help us out! In this part of the series Pookie breaks down the basic principles of prompting for us and gives us tips for success!

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0:00 Intro
01:46 What is a prompt?
03:02: Models, Captioning, and Pattern Recognition
04:44 Prompt Styles: Waifu Diffusion vs BLIP
05:45 What is Latent Space?
06:48 Positive & Negative Prompts / Prompt Structure
10:36 Choosing the right Model
11:24 CFG, Steps, and Seed
13:52 Outro