Retro Red Still Life
Product · Still Life · Red Ground
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 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
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
- 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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