Blue Monochrome Night

Illustration · Monochrome · Blue

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Road and headlights·Nano Banana Pro
Wide night scene·Nano Banana Pro
Square crop·Seedream 4.5
Detail of the figure·Seedream 4.5

Recipe

The examples above were generated with Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 4.5. 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 night scene painted entirely in a single blue, running from near black in the shadows to a pale wash where light falls: an empty road, a parked car, a standing figure and a long cast shadow, all described tonally with no second colour anywhere in the image. Headlights are the only bright element. Even grain over the whole surface, generous empty space around the figure, quiet and lonely.

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
1536 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1One colour only, stated twice. Warm headlights will creep in otherwise.
  • 2The long cast shadow is what makes the light feel real.
  • 3Keep the figure small. The emptiness is the subject.

Things to try

Green

the same scene in one green

Interior

a lit room in the same treatment

No car

the figure and the road alone

Rain

wet tarmac and reflections

Warm

a single amber instead of blue

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