Prompts for Recraft V4.1.

How to write prompts for Recraft V4.1

Recraft V4.1 is a specialist, not a generalist. It does studio: seamless backdrops, paper, gradients — 47% of the prompts here use a plain background, against 13% to 19% for the models I use most. And it holds flat colour like nothing else; "cool-neutral" appears almost three times more often here than across the rest of the library.

Outside that lane it fails at nearly everything. Skin comes out lifeless, a scene with a real setting falls apart, faces and hands give trouble, and when I push for realism the result starts looking like a render. It is the model on my list with the most flaws — and I still use it, because the one thing it does, it does better than the others.

With this one I do not ask for a photograph. What comes out is a graphic piece — an image that drops into a layout without arguing — and that is what it is here for. The prompt follows suit: 138 words on average, against 165 for Seedream. It does not need me to explain what it already knows how to do.