Airbrush Gradient Dream

Illustration · Gradient · Airbrush

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Horse dissolving into gradient·Nano Banana Pro
Wide abstract field·Nano Banana Pro
Vertical figure study·Nano Banana Pro
Glowing form on black·Seedream 4.5
Grain detail·Seedream 4.5
GPT Image·GPT Image 2

Recipe

The examples above were generated with Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 4.5 and GPT Image 2. The recipes below are written for GPT Image and Flux, so treat the settings as a starting point rather than the exact run.

A description in plain sentences. This is the version to start with, and it works on any current image model. Settings below are the ones we used on GPT Image; treat them as a starting point.

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the highlighted part of the prompt changes.

Prompt

A soft airbrushed gradient illustration: the silhouette of a horse's head emerging from and dissolving back into a field of colour, with no outline anywhere. Smooth sprayed transitions from rose pink through teal to pale acid green, edges melting into the background, a faint glow around the form. Fine noise grain over the whole image so the gradients are not perfectly smooth. Dreamlike and quiet.

The prompt gets you close. Feed one of the examples in as a style reference for the rest. Download the images

Use the examples as a reference

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Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.

Settings on GPT Image

Size
1024 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1No outline anywhere. The form has to be made of colour alone.
  • 2Name the gradient path, not just the colours: rose through teal to acid green.
  • 3Fine grain over the top is what stops it looking like a default gradient mesh.

Things to try

On black

the same glow against a deep black ground

Landscape

a horizon made entirely of gradient bands

Portrait

a face implied by two or three colour transitions

Chrome

metallic gradients with a hard specular highlight

Print texture

the gradient reproduced as coarse halftone dots

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