{"id":2142,"date":"2026-09-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muzi.tw\/thinking\/image-consistency-tmp-en-us\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T05:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:29:06","slug":"image-consistency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muzi.tw\/en\/thinking\/image-consistency\/","title":{"rendered":"Consistent AI images don&#8217;t come from the prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mz-nt-lead\">The most common way to fail at a full set of visuals from a generative model is to carefully rewrite the prompt for every image.<\/p>\n<p>However well each one is written, the images still drift from one to the next. If you describe the same thing from scratch every time, the wording can&#8217;t come out the same every time.<\/p>\n<h2>The two things that helped<\/h2>\n<p>One is locking the style paragraph. Light, color, material, contrast and the feel of the lens go into one fixed block of text that every image uses, unchanged down to the word. The only line rewritten per image is the subject.<\/p>\n<p>The other is reference images. Feed in the palette and the approved assets directly as input instead of describing colors in words. Color described in text is the least stable link in the whole process.<\/p>\n<p>With those two in place, we went from &#8220;every image is different&#8221; to &#8220;now and then one gets thrown out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>What should repeat is the quality of the light<\/h2>\n<p>Our first version spelled out the lighting rules very specifically. Of a few dozen images, half used the same lighting setup.<\/p>\n<p>Seen together, they didn&#8217;t look like a set of assets. They looked like one filter applied a few dozen times.<\/p>\n<p>So we split the rule into two layers. The quality of the light stays fixed: cool, dim, and visibly landing on something. 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