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“Name that color!” How to prompt AI image generators with better color and palette descriptions
Generate specific colors in your AI artwork with these tips
Getting specific with color terminology in your AI art
Not only does color add a WOW factor, but it also makes an artist’s images appear more distinctive and high quality. You want to develop a “look” — and more often than not, that means a color palette that expresses you.
But how do we ensure that AI art generators stick to the colors we choose? Whether you’re using MidJourney V4, Dall-E 2, Jasper Art, or Stable Diffusion, you’ll run into this issue. As a rule, prompts can’t contain HEX codes, and there’s no Eyedropper tool.
So how do you tell the computer what colors to use?
The key is being more precise in your descriptions. Instead of typing “blue”, try something more detailed, such as “cerulean” or “turquoise.”
When you use the right terminology and values, you’re giving your AI art generator more information to work with, so it can then give you images that fit your desired aesthetic. You’ll become a better AI artist as a result.
How to change HEX codes into text prompts for AI images:
To get the right words to describe any color, you can use an online tool like Coolors. Coolors will give you inspiration for palettes, and tell you what’s trending. But you can also use its color picker took to reverse-lookup color names from HEX codes. This will help you get more accurate results when describing color because you know exactly what you want the AI to create.
