Retro Red Still Life

Product · Still Life · Red Ground

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Objects on red·Nano Banana Pro
Wide arrangement·Seedream 4.5
Square crop·Seedream 4.5
Detail of the chrome·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 studio still life in the manner of an eighties advertising photograph: polished metal objects and a couple of pieces of fruit arranged with generous space on a completely flat saturated red ground. Hard directional light so the chrome carries bright specular streaks and every object drops one crisp dark shadow. Deliberate graphic arrangement, nothing casual, no props beyond the subjects, no lettering.

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

  • 1Flat ground with no horizon. It is what dates it correctly.
  • 2One hard light, one crisp shadow per object.
  • 3Leave space between the objects. Crowding reads as modern.

Things to try

Blue ground

a cooler version

Glass

transparent objects instead

Overhead

shot from directly above

Single object

one item alone

Black ground

the same light on dark

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