¶ Prompting for Double Exposure Images
These are some examples of prompts with double exposures or double images merged together in an artistic way using Qwen.
¶ 1) Large uncluttered “boring” spaces work well for double exposures, especially when they are easily defined. In this example, the man's dark coat is a perfect palette for a double exposure images.
 Prompt: a double exposure image featuring a man with his back to the viewer, wearing a dark wool coat, a black fedora with a gray band, standing in the alley of a city street, looking over his shoulder. short depth of field. His dark coat and hat are artistically blended with a cinematic city skyline at sunset with colorful city lights. |
¶ 2) Begin the prompt with “double exposure image” or “double exposure portrait”.
¶ 3) Describe the main image first, then describe what the second exposure should feature, and where it should be visible.
- If you are creating a portrait, remember the portrait itself has a background. In the left image, I've specified the background of the portrait as a bokeh mountain sunset. In the right image, I didn't specify the background of the portrait, so the AI created something based on the rest of the prompt.
- I've used the phrase “his face is artistically blended with a beautiful landscape” to describe where and how the double exposure image should be.
 Prompt: double exposure portrait, very close half profile portrait of a cowboy wearing a cowboy hat and a neckerchief with a lay-down collar shirt. the background of the portrait is a dusk bokeh landscape. his face is artistically blended with a beautiful landscape photo featuring an open cattle range with a mountain range in the background, under a brilliant sunset with yellow-orange skies interspersed with fluffy violet-gray clouds stretching into a dark sunset sky. |
 Prompt: double exposure portrait; high quality close up profile of a cowboy wearing a cowboy hat and a navy-and-white paisley neckerchief with a lay-down collar shirt. Dramatic sunset over a mountain range with cattle merging into his face, strong light beams breaking through clouds, high contrast lighting, rich amber and copper tones, ultra detailed textures, cinematic masterpiece Negative Prompt: |
¶ 4) Create a light and airy image using terms like “clean minimal silhouette” with “soft rim light”.
 Prompt: double exposure portrait, clean minimal silhouette of a man's face, soft rim light; inside the man's silhouette is the double exposure image of a man and a woman reaching toward each other, backlit, pastel glow in violet and gold, gentle gradients |
¶ 5) The AI will want to add a portrait of a person.
The image on the right makes no reference to a person, but the AI added one anyway. To fix this, I specified “tree silhouette” instead of just “silhouette”.
 Prompt: a double exposure image featuring a large palm tree cleanly silhouetted against the ocean background. the tree silhouette is inlaid with a downtown city street with colorful city lights. |
 Prompt: a double exposure image featuring a large palm tree cleanly silhouetted against the ocean background. the silhouette is inlaid with a cinematic city street view at dusk with colorful city lights. Negative Prompt: |
¶ 5) Try a different seed to get a different look
| These images have the same prompt: double exposure quarter profile portrait; high quality close up portrait of a cowboy wearing a hat and a navy-and-white paisley neckerchief with a lay-down collar shirt, intense shadows, dusty skin, intimate portrait, in the background a dramatic sunset over a mountain range with cattle. the double exposure should be overlapped with the cowboy, blended in such a way that his face and features are still visible, but his shirt and the dark of his neckerchief and the shadows of his beard have a double exposure city skyline after dark. Negative Prompt: - Guidance Scale: 1.4 Size: 768x960 |
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¶ Other Examples
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 Prompt: Dark luxurious double exposure portrait of a sensual cowboy woman with bold smoky blue eyes, intense shadows, dusty skin. Dramatic sunset over a mountain range with cattle merging into her face, strong light beams breaking through clouds, high contrast lighting, rich amber and copper tones, ultra detailed textures, cinematic masterpiece |
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 Prompt: Surreal fine-art portrait of a woman in a soft 3:4 medium close-up, her skin is porcelain pale with subtle film grain and paper texture. the top of her head, her eyes, and everywhere above her cheeks, has been completely replaced by a dreamlike bright blue sky with fluffy white clouds. the cloudy sky occupies the entire top of the image. a delicate branch with red leaves crosses the entire image at her nose, where her eyes would have been. a songbird is perched on the branch where her left eye would have been. above and to the right, a flock of birds are flying away. Bold matte crimson lips and fingernails contrast against desaturated neutrals. one hand gently cups the jaw, one finger adorned with an antique ruby ring. Soft, diffused studio lighting, shallow depth of field, gentle vignette, painterly collage aesthetic blending photorealism and illustration. Muted background, high detail on foliage, feathers and lips, delicate shadowing on skin, slightly faded vintage tones. |