Flat Food Illustration
Illustration · Food · Flat
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.
A flat illustration of a pizza on a white plate seen from directly above on a bright blue tablecloth, with two glasses of water beside it. Everything drawn as flat shapes with no shading or gradients: tomato slices as red circles, basil as single green marks, crust as one cream shape with a darker edge. Saturated confident colour, simple black line only where two shapes need separating.
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Settings on GPT Image
- Size
- 1024 x 1024
- Quality
- High
- Background
- Opaque
- Output
- PNG
Tips
- 1Straight down from above. Any perspective and it becomes a scene.
- 2Ingredients as single marks. Detail makes it look like packaging art.
- 3One saturated ground colour behind everything.
Things to try
Breakfast
eggs, toast and coffee laid out the same way
Full table
several dishes crowding the frame
Muted palette
dusty tones instead of saturated
Single ingredient
one lemon half filling the frame
Menu layout
the dish with space for text beside it
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