skills/prompt-image/SKILL.md

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name: prompt-image
description: Use when writing or improving the prompt for a Pika image run — create, edit or restyle an image — before running it, whatever the model.
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# Image prompts

## In Pika

- The prompt goes in the tool's `prompt` field (`instructions` in `edit_image`). A template or preset field may replace it; send one or the other.
- Check the model: `create_image` and `edit_image` take a `model`. For `gpt-image-2` also apply `prompt-gpt-image`; for Nano Banana (`nano-banana`, the default, and its variants) apply `prompt-nano-banana`.
- Keep the user's intent and words. Expand a described look into concrete visual detail; don't swap in a different idea.

## Structure

1. **Result and use** — what the image is for: product shot, poster, profile photo, thumbnail, illustration.
2. **Subject** — who or what, pose, expression, clothing, materials.
3. **Composition** — framing (close-up, full body, overhead flat lay), subject placement, background.
4. **Light** — source, direction, softness, time of day.
5. **Style** — photo (lens, depth of field, film stock) or medium (watercolor, 3D render, flat vector, anime), plus a color palette.
6. **Text**, if any — exact words in quotes, where they sit, and the lettering style.

Use plain descriptive sentences. For a busy scene, short labeled lines (Scene, Subject, Details, Text) stay readable.

## Edits

- Say what changes and list what stays: face, pose, product shape, label, background, lighting, camera angle.
- One change per run. Feed the result into the next edit for the next change.
- With several input images, give each a role: "the person from the first image, the jacket from the second".

## Leave out

- Empty praise ("beautiful, stunning, masterpiece, 8K").
- Negative lists. Describe the wanted result ("clean white background") rather than what to avoid.
- Style stacks that contradict each other ("photorealistic watercolor anime").

## Example

> Product photo for an online store: a matte black water bottle standing on pale travertine, centered, shot from slightly above at a 3/4 angle. Soft daylight from the left with a gentle shadow to the right. Shallow depth of field, neutral warm palette; the bottle is the only object in frame.