Knolling Flat Lay

Photography · Knolling · Flat Lay

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Knolling Flat Lay, Everything a person owns, disassembled and arranged at right angles — Everyday carry, aligned·Nano Banana Pro

Recipe

The style is the recipe. The subject is yours.

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.

Make it yours

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

Prompt

A knolling photograph shot from directly overhead: the contents of a photographer's bag disassembled and arranged in a strict grid on a pale concrete surface. Camera body, three lenses, lens caps, film canisters, notebook, pen, keys and a folded cloth, all spaced evenly and aligned parallel or perpendicular to the frame, ordered by size. Flat even lighting with no cast shadows, muted colour, perfectly square to the camera.

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

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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

1Parallel or perpendicular to the frame is the phrase that produces real knolling.
2List the objects. A generic prompt gives you a generic pile.
3Ask for no cast shadows or the grid stops reading as a grid.