Gaslit Snow Street

Illustration · Impressionist · Night

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Street after snowfall·Nano Banana Pro
Carriages in the haze·Seedream 4.5
Square crop·Seedream 4.5
Vertical of the spire·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

An oil painting of a European city street at dusk after snowfall, lit by gas lamps whose warm haloes bleed into a blue grey fog. Figures and carriages suggested with a few loaded brushmarks rather than drawn, wet cobbles carrying long broken reflections, rooftops dissolving into haze. Soft edges everywhere except the lamp flames, muted palette of slate blue, warm ochre and dirty white, visible impasto in the light.

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Settings on GPT Image

Size
1536 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1The lamps are the only sharp thing. Let everything else stay soft.
  • 2Wet ground doubles the light. Ask for reflections in the cobbles.
  • 3Keep the figures as marks, not portraits.

Things to try

Rain instead

wet tarmac and umbrellas, no snow

Dawn

lamps still lit against a pale sky

Harbour

the same treatment for a quayside

Close crop

one lamp and two figures

Modern city

sodium streetlights in the same manner

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