Your first AI image

Birthday invites, a logo sketch, art for the hallway — describing pictures in words.

The lesson

Prompting visually: subject, style, mood, and the iterate-don't-settle habit. What AI images are great at, where they're weird (hands, text), and one honest paragraph on rights and usage.

Try it — 60 seconds

Create an image: [subject], in the style of [style you like], mood: [mood], for [use]. — Then look at what's wrong with it and say it better.

Copy it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — whichever you already use. Fill in the brackets with your real life.

Watch out

Don't generate images of real people without their enthusiastic OK, and check your image tool's terms before commercial use.