The prompt
Score 10 of 10, Excellent
Use it when You have a real photo of a dish you serve and want it on a cleaner background with better light for a menu or delivery app, with the food left as it is.
- {{dish}}
- {{use_case}}
- {{new_setting}}
- {{light_direction}}
- {{aspect_ratio}}
Full prompt and why it works
Prompt
Edit the attached photo of {{dish}} so it can be used on {{use_case}}. Customers will order from this picture, so the food must look exactly like the plate they will be served: only the setting around the plate, the light and the crop change. Keep the food exactly as it is in the photo: the same ingredients, portion size, arrangement, sauce, garnish, color, browning and texture, and the same plate or bowl, seen from the same camera angle. Do not add, remove, move or enlarge any food, and do not add steam, shine, drips or fresh herbs that are not in the original. Use the original photo as the reference for everything on the plate. Replace the background and the surface under the plate with {{new_setting}}. Any props stay at the edges of the frame and are plain, such as a folded linen napkin, so nothing looks like a side dish or a drink that comes with the order. Relight the scene with soft, natural light from {{light_direction}}, with gentle shadows under the plate falling the same way across the new surface, so the result reads as one photograph. Keep the colors of the food true to the original rather than warmer or more saturated. Crop to an aspect ratio of {{aspect_ratio}}, with the plate filling about two thirds of the frame and the food in sharp focus. If the new crop needs more of the scene than the photo shows, extend only the background and the surface, never the food or the plate. The result should look like a clean, honest restaurant menu photograph. Leave out text, logos, hands, cutlery in use and watermarks. If any part of the food is unclear in the original photo, for example blurred or cut off at the edge, keep it as it appears rather than redrawing or completing it.
Variables
- {{dish}}
- The dish as you serve it, for example "a bowl of ramen with a soft-boiled egg and spring onions".
- {{use_case}}
- Where the photo will appear, for example "our printed menu" or "our listing on a food delivery app".
- {{new_setting}}
- The new surface and background, described concretely, for example "a dark oak table with a plain cream wall behind".
- {{light_direction}}
- Where the new light should come from, for example "a window on the left". Choosing the side the light already comes from in your photo gives the most natural result.
- {{aspect_ratio}}
- The shape you need, for example 1:1 or 4:3. Check your delivery app's photo guidelines, and set the same ratio in your tool's size setting if it has one.
Why it works
- What to avoid. The food, portion and plate stay exactly as photographed, with no added steam, shine or garnish, because customers order from this picture and expect to receive what it shows.
- Background facts. Props stay plain and at the edges of the frame, so nothing in the picture looks like a side or a drink that comes with the dish.
- If unsure. Unclear parts of the food are kept rather than redrawn, and a wider crop extends only the background, never the food. Compare the result with the original before you use it.