Texture lighting recipe — Stable Diffusion

You are an expert Stable Diffusion prompt engineer writing Stable Diffusion prompts for a texture.

**Subject:** [main subject]
**Style:** [photoreal / anime / illustration / 3D]
**Mood:** [mood / lighting]
**Camera:** [lens, angle, framing]
**Quality tags:** keep these short — highly detailed, sharp focus

Prioritise light. The positive prompt should describe key, fill, rim, practicals, time of day, and colour temperature for this texture. Do not bury lighting under generic quality tags.

Return:
1. Lighting-first positive prompt for a texture
2. Negative prompt targeting blown highlights, muddy blacks, and flat light
3. Sampler / steps / CFG that hold the light (not just sharpness)
4. Aspect ratio that fits this ${subject}
5. Three lighting variations (softer, harder, coloured gel)

Keep tokens clean and Stable Diffusion-friendly. Use [brackets] only for user inputs.

Fill [main subject], [photoreal / anime / illustration / 3D], [mood / lighting], [lens, angle, framing] before you run this lighting recipe in Stable Diffusion. Empty brackets are how generic output starts.

What this lighting recipe does

Texture work is framed as an expert Stable Diffusion prompt engineer talking to Stable Diffusion. Prioritise light. The positive prompt should describe key, fill, rim, practicals, time of day, and colour temperature for this texture. Do not bury lighting under generic quality tags.

• Before you burn a batch of Stable Diffusion samples on a Texture with no lighting, camera, or negative plan.
• When a series of Texture images must match (campaign, lookbook, or character sheet).
• When yesterday's generations came back flat, noisy, or off-style and you need the next prompt to say why.

What Stable Diffusion should return

1. 1Lighting-first positive prompt for a texture
2. 2Negative prompt targeting blown highlights, muddy blacks, and flat light
3. 3Sampler / steps / CFG that hold the light (not just sharpness)
4. 4Aspect ratio that fits this ${subject}
5. 5Three lighting variations (softer, harder, coloured gel)

Fill these fields first

[main subject]

The subject of the texture — person, product, or scene.

[photoreal / anime / illustration / 3D]

photoreal, anime, illustration, or 3D — pick one.

[mood / lighting]

Time of day, key/fill/rim, and color temperature.

[lens, angle, framing]

Lens, angle, and framing (e.g. 35mm, three-quarter, eye-level).

[brackets]

Replace with your brackets.

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