Photographic looks, camera and lens language, art styles, lighting, target colors, and how to put text in FLUX 3 images
Specify the medium, texture, and lighting: a flash snapshot, a grainy night photograph, or an anime poster. Concrete descriptions give more direction than labels such as “aesthetic” or “professional”.
“film grain, warm color cast, soft focus, 80s vintage photo”
Analog Film
“shot on Kodak Portra 400, natural grain, organic colors”
The layout captions shown here open with one sentence that sets the medium and the look. For photographs, it reads like this:Both were generated from a full caption plus a layout. The quoted sentence is the part that sets the look.The tabs below show more photographic styles, all generated with FLUX 3 Image:
Modern Photorealism
2000s Digicam
80s Vintage
Analog Photography
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Name the camera, lens, or film stock instead of writing “professional photo”: “Shot on Fujifilm X-T5, 35mm f/1.4”. Then describe what it looks like: “visible grain”, “a warm color cast”, “slight chromatic aberration at the edges”.
FLUX 3 renders a wide range of styles beyond photographs. Name the style specifically and describe its visual characteristics: the FLUX 3 Tokyo poster below opens with “A stylized digital illustration in a flat, graphic anime style, resembling a modern pop-art poster with non-directional, uniform lighting.”These three FLUX 3 Image examples also open the caption with the medium and the style:
Tiger poster: “Full-color digital scan of a flat, vertical graphic design poster exhibiting a minimalist, mid-century Japanese aesthetic and a two-dimensional, screen-printed quality.”
Character sheet: “Digital illustration character model sheet against a plain white background, featuring clean, thick linework and a color palette of red, green, and cream.”
Design categories: “Flat-color digital illustration of a minimalist graphic design presented against a solid black background.”
A plain prompt can set a style too. These FLUX 3 Image results each come from the prompt below them:Style fusion: Combine two styles with a unifying palette. This example was generated with an earlier FLUX model.
Style Fusion Example
“Ancient Greek marble statue precision and anatomical detail, infused with cyberpunk neon lighting, holographic overlays, and electric blue/magenta glow effects, set against dark futuristic environments”
Style + mood annotations (documented for FLUX.2 [klein]): Add explicit tags at the end of your prompt for consistent aesthetics:
When a style is hard to put into words, send an image of it. FLUX 3 Image takes up to 10 references in images; refer to them by position in the prompt. Here, image 1 is the subject and image 2 is the style:The result keeps the temple’s architecture and takes the speckled night sky and textured paper look from image 2. See Multi reference for the request, and Multi-Reference Editing for more style and material transfers.
Name the light source, direction, and quality. For example, “soft window light from the left” describes more than “good lighting”.What to describe:
Source: natural, artificial, ambient
Quality: soft, harsh, diffused, direct
Direction: side, back, overhead, fill
Temperature: warm, cool, golden, blue
Interaction: catches, filters, reflects on surfaces
The FLUX 3 launch prompts name the source and say what the light does:
“lit by harsh, direct camera flash that casts sharp shadows against the background”
“A strong spotlight illuminates the center of the stage, casting long, soft shadows across the floor and highlighting the stiff tulle of the costumes”
“Dappled natural sunlight filters through the trees, creating bright highlights against earthy brown and deep green shadows”
“under flat, even studio-style lighting”
The lighting examples below were generated with an earlier FLUX model.
Portrait Lighting
Rembrandt lighting (45° key light): triangle of light on the face for dramatic portraits:“Portrait with Rembrandt lighting, key light at 45 degrees, dramatic chiaroscuro effect”Split lighting (90° side light): half-face illuminated for high contrast:“Artistic portrait, split lighting, strong side illumination, dramatic contrast”
Rembrandt lighting
Split lighting
Environmental Light Quality
Window light = soft, even illuminationGolden hour = warm and softBlue hour = cool and moodyOverhead artificial = harsh and dramatic
Window Light
Golden hour
Blue hour
Overhead artificial light
Cinematic Lighting
Chiaroscuro: high contrast light/shadow for drama:“Film noir detective scene, single practical desk lamp, strong chiaroscuro lighting”Practical lighting: visible light sources in scene for realism:“Cyberpunk street scene, neon signs and LED strips providing atmospheric lighting”
A hex code names an exact color. In this FLUX 3 Image edit, the prompt picks out one bird and gives it a hex value. That bird turns pink and the rest of the flock stays black:Tie each hex code to one named object (“only one bird in the middle”), so the model knows where the color goes.
FLUX 3 renders text in images, from one word on a sign to multi-line poster typography and Japanese text. For each block of text, put three things in the prompt:
1
Quote the exact words
Put every string in quotation marks, with the capitalization and punctuation you want: "東京", "Cabin", "LE FESTIVAL DU SOLEIL".
2
Say where it goes
Place each block in the frame: “runs down the left side of the frame”, “At the bottom center, a line of bright text … sits directly above a smaller line of text”.
3
Describe the type
Give weight, case, color, and character: “Large, bold red kanji and katakana characters arranged vertically, featuring distressed, spray-paint-like edges” or “a clean, sans-serif black font”.
For posters, packaging, and signage, give each text block its own box in a layout. To specify placement, quote the words in the box’s desc, and cite the box in the caption where the text belongs. See Describe each element.
These four launch-post images were each generated from a caption plus an element table, with one box per text block. The tables below quote the caption for placement and the box desc for the words and type. Open them in the layout explorer to see every box.
Tokyo poster
Title over a photo
Bilingual stamp panels
Cabin, Sauna
FLUX 3 Image, 2:3. Japanese and English text, generated with a layout.
Box
Placement (caption)
Words and type (desc)
Ja_Text_1
”runs down the left side of the frame"
"Large, bold red kanji and katakana characters arranged vertically, featuring distressed, spray-paint-like edges. The text reads "ストリート\n悪魔".”
Ja_Text_2
”positioned in the upper right section"
"Large, bold red kanji characters arranged vertically … The text reads “東京”.”
Ja_Text_3
”In the lower right corner rests a square seal"
"A red square seal … resembling a traditional Japanese hanko stamp. The text reads “印”.”
Ja_Text_4
”At the bottom center, a line of bright text"
"The text “たうのさん” written horizontally in a vibrant yellow, clean, flat sans-serif font.”
Unknown_Text_1
”a smaller line of text”, below Ja_Text_4
”A line of small, less legible white text written horizontally, reading “ORIGINAL ARTWORK”.”
\n inside the quoted string marks a line break. “arranged vertically” sets the reading direction.
FLUX 3 Image, 3:4. A serif title in the sky of a photograph, generated with a layout.
Box
Placement (caption)
Words and type (desc)
Fr_Text_1
”Centered at the top is a cream-colored title"
""LE FESTIVAL DU SOLEIL" written in a thin, elegant, serif typeface in a light cream color”
One short row is enough when the title has a quiet part of the frame to itself. The box [40, 200, 100, 800] is a thin band across the sky, so the title sits above the mountains instead of over the dome.
FLUX 3 Image, 3:4. Five lines of English and Japanese text on two panels, generated with a layout.
Box
Placement (caption)
Words and type (desc)
En_Text_1, En_Text_2
”White text overlays the left panel at the top … and bottom"
"White sans-serif typography … reading "i could stay here with you\n愛してる", with the English text positioned above the Japanese characters.” and ”… reading “永遠 forever and ever”.”
En_Text_3 to En_Text_5
”White text is overlaid on the right panel at the top …, middle …, and bottom"
"… reading "Someday You’ll Find Me\nどこか"”, ”… reading "Somewhere Quiet\n静か"”, ”… reading "In the Peace & Tranquil\n平和"”
Five text blocks, five boxes, each with its own quoted string and the same type description. The rows say which script sits on top, and the caption says which panel and which band each block belongs to. Use the same pattern for any long run of text.
FLUX 3 Image, 3:2. Signage over a photograph, generated with a layout.
Box
Placement (caption)
Words and type (desc)
En_Text_1
”ending in a solid chartreuse square on the far right that contains a black directional sign"
"A thin, black, right-pointing arrow centered above the word “Cabin” in a clean, sans-serif black font.”
En_Text_2
”ending in a solid chartreuse square on the far left that holds another black directional sign"
"A thin, black, left-pointing arrow centered above the word “Sauna” in a clean, sans-serif black font.”
Describe the graphics that belong to the text (here, the arrow and its direction) in the same box as the words.
A word or a short line does not need a layout. Quote it and say where it goes, for example a paper poster on the wall that reads "OPEN LATE". These FLUX.2 examples use the same pattern:
Use quotation marks around exact text you want rendered, with the case and punctuation you want
Mark line breaks and direction: \n inside the quoted text, “arranged vertically”, “arranged in two centered lines”
Describe the type: weight, case, color, and texture. A font name works as a comparison: “a bold, white sans-serif typeface reminiscent of Helvetica or Inter”
Describe color and effects: “red neon letters”, “gold serif lettering”, “chalk on blackboard”
