Pale Dream Photo
Photography · Pale · Dreamy
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 photograph exposed far toward white so the world nearly disappears: pale sky, pale ground, a figure in cream clothing resting along a branch, only the faintest greens and greys surviving. Very low contrast with the entire image sitting in the top third of the tonal range, soft fine grain, no deep shadows or blacks anywhere. Quiet and dreamlike.
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
Download the examplesSend 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
- 1Say no blacks anywhere. Models restore contrast by instinct.
- 2Cream clothing keeps the figure inside the tonal range.
- 3Low contrast, not blur. The image should still be sharp.
Things to try
Water
a figure in shallow sea
Interior
a bright pale room
Two figures
a pair in the same light
Warmer
a faint amber cast
Snow
the same tone in winter
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