ChatGPT Image Generator Tutorial (Exact Prompts I Use)

0:00 Look at this image. Chat GBT made this in under a minute. No Photoshop, no design skills, just one sentence. I've spent the last few weeks testing every trick I can find, and I'm going to give you the exact prompts that get you results like this. You can copy and paste every single one from this video. Now, by the end of this video, you'll know how to create images like a pro, even if you've never touched a design tool in your life. Hey everyone, I'm Jake and I help people like you get better with the newest AI tools without wasting time or money on expensive tools. So, Chat GBT can now generate images. And I'm not talking about the old Dali images that look a little bit off. This is completely different. OpenAI built image generation directly into GPT 5.2. And that's the same model

0:47 that writes text, answers questions, and reads documents. Now, it can also create images. And because it's the same model, it actually understands what you're asking for. It can read your words and turn them into exactly what you described. So that's why the results are so much better than before. Now, let me show you how this whole thing works. First, just open up chat GPT. You can use the website or the mobile app. Both work just fine. But make sure the model at the top says GPT 5.2. That's the one with image generation built right in. Now, here's the thing most people ask. Do you need to pay? And the short answer is no. Free users can create images. You get roughly two to three images per day. Uh sometimes it's a little bit slow because the free users go into a queue.

1:33 And if you want to make a lot of images, chatbt plus is $20 a month and that gives you around 50 images every 3 hours, which is way more than most people need. There's also Chat GBT Pro at $200 a month. That's the highest limit, but honestly, plus is enough for almost anyone. To create your first image, just type into the chat box. You can say create an image of and then describe what you want. Or you can also click the little toolbox icon and select create image. Both do the same thing. Let me show you with a simple example. Here's the first thing to know. The way you write your prompt, it it changes everything. I'll show you what I mean here. If I type in a dog into the field, I'll get something, but it's pretty generic. Chat GPT has to guess the

2:20 breed, the time of day, the style, all of it. Now, watch what happens when I get specific. I type, create a photorealistic image of a golden retriever sitting in a field of sunflowers during golden hour. The dog is looking directly at the camera. Shallow depth of field, warm sunlight coming from the left. shot on a Canon EOS R5 with an 85mm lens. You see the difference? Same idea, completely different result. That's the number one rule here. The more detail that you give Chat GPT, the better your images turn out. Here's a simple formula that you can follow for any image. Think of it like five boxes that you need to fill in. The subject, what is the image? The style, is it a photo, a cartoon, a

3:05 painting? The setting, where is it? What's the background? The mood. Is it bright, dark, warm, dramatic, and any details like the camera angle, lighting, colors, anything specific like that. You don't need to fill in all five every time, but the more you include, the more control you have. Now, let me show you another one. I type create a clean Instagram post graphic with a light pink background. In the center, display the text, five morning habits that changed my life in bold white sans Sarah's font. Add a small coffee cup icon in the bottom right corner. Aspect ratio 1:1. Now look at that perfect text, clean layout. You could post this to Instagram right now. And that brings me to one of the biggest reason Chatt's image

3:50 generator is so good. This is Chhatypt's secret weapon. It can put text in images and the text actually look right. If you've ever tried other AI image tools, you know they mess up text constantly. misspelled words, letters floating around, total gibberish. ChatBT doesn't do that anymore because now again, this the same model that writes the text, it actually knows how to spell and where to put the words. This makes it perfect for things like social media graphics, quote posts posters uh menus signs infographics, basically anything where you need words on an image. Now, here's a prompt for a poster. I type design a modern event poster for a music festival called Summer Sounds 2026. [music] The date is August 15th to 17th. The

4:36 location's Austin, Texas. Use a dark navy blue background with gold and white text. Include the headliners, the midnight, Odessa, and jungle. Modern minimalist style portrait orientation. Now look, every word is spelled correctly. The layout looks professional. And I didn't touch a single design tool. A couple tips for text and images. Now, put the exact text that you want inside quotation marks in your prompt. That tells chat GPT, hey, these are the exact words that I want. Another tip would be to keep the text short. A headline and a few details work best. And tell it what font and style you want. Say bold sans serif or a elegant script font or handwritten style. All right. Now, let's talk about styles. This is where things get really

5:22 fun. See, Chachi PT can create almost any visual style that you can think of. Photorealistic photos, watercolor paintings, cartoon illustrations, pixel art, oil paintings, anime, you name it. The key is telling it what style you want in the prompt. Let me show you a few examples. For photorealistic image, mention the camera, the lens, and the lighting. I type a photorealistic image of a young woman sitting at a cafe table in Paris. She's reading a book and holding a cappuccino. Morning light is coming through the window. Shot on a Sony A7 III with a 50mm lens. Natural color grading. Now look at that. That looks like a real photograph. You'd scroll right past this on Instagram thinking that someone took that with a camera. Now let's flip the style

6:09 completely. I type a cozy illustration of a small cottage in the woods during autumn in the style of Studio Gibli. Warm watercolor palette. Soft light coming through the trees. A small stream flows past the front door. Leaves are falling gently. Wide shot, completely different feel. Same tool, you just change the words. Now, let me show you a few more things that you can control. The aspect ratio. So, by default, ChatP makes square images, but you can ask for landscape or portrait. All you need to do is you just say landscape orientation or aspect ratio 32 or portrait 23 right in your prompt. You have transparent backgrounds. This is huge for logos and stickers. Just add transparent PNG background to your prompt. Exact colors.

6:55 This is another one. You can use hex codes. So, if your brand color is a specific blue, you can say, "Use hex color 1 A73e) for the background." Let me show you a prompt that uses all of these. Actually, I type create a modern logo for a coffee brand called Bean and Brew. Minimalist style, a simple coffee cup icon with steam rising. Use hex color 2D1810 for the cup and F5E6D3 for the background. Clean lines, transparent PNG background, square format. You just made a logo for free in 30 seconds. Now, I know what some of you are thinking. Is this going to replace a professional designer? For a final brand logo, probably not. But for a quick mockup or for a starting point, this is

7:42 incredible. Here's where ChatBT really separates itself from other image tools. You can edit your images just by talking. You don't need to start over anymore. You don't need a new prompt. You just tell it what to change. Let me show you. Let's say I generated this living room image, but I want to change some things. I just type in the same chat. Change the couch color to dark green. Done. Now add a large plant in the left corner. And there [music] it is. And the rest of the image stays the same. That's the power of multi-turn editing. You can also upload your own photos and edit them. Say you have a photo from your phone and you want to change uh the background or something small. Upload the photo and then type something like change the background to a tropical beach sunset or remove the

8:29 person standing behind me or make this look like an oil painting. ChachiBT will keep your original photo and change just the parts that you ask about. There's also a select tool. So you can click on any image that chatbt generated and you can see a select option in the top right corner. This just lets you draw a box around a specific part of the image. Then you describe what you want to change just in that area. So if there's a typo in your text, you can just select the text area and say fix the spelling to say Wednesday instead of Wednesday. One thing to know, chat GBT remembers everything in the same chat. And this is great for small edits, but sometimes it can cause problems when you want something totally different, for example. My tip would be to start a new

9:14 chat for each new project. That gives you a clean slate every time. Okay, let me walk you through some real use cases. These are prompts that you can copy right now and use for your own stuff. I type create a YouTube thumbnail, landscape orientation, 16:9 aspect ratio. On the left side, a shocked emoji face with wide eyes. On the right, bold 3D text that says, "This changes everything in yellow with a black outline. Background is a dramatic dark blue gradient with light rays, high contrast, eye-catching, and bold. Now, look at this. That's a thumbnail. Now, is it as good as a custom Photoshop job? Maybe not, but for a starting point, for a quick thumbnail, it absolutely works.

10:00 Now, I type create a clean slide for an Instagram carousel. White background at the top. The text says prompt tip number three in small gray font. In the center, bold black text that reads, "Always specify the style you want." At the bottom, a thin gold line divider, aspect ratio 45, minimal and modern. Now, you could make 10 of these in 20 minutes and an entire carousel from scratch. Now, here's another one. If you sell products online, for example, this is a game changer. No photographer needed for your first mock-ups. And this one, this one's just for fun. Uh, but also this would make an amazing meme or social media post. Now, before I wrap up, here are my best tips for getting the most out of ChatBT image generation. Tip number one,

10:47 be specific. A nice sunset gives you something generic. A sunset over the ocean with purple and orange clouds. A silhouette of a sailboat shot from a cliff. Golden hour. Wide-angle lens. Now that gives you something incredible. Details are everything here. Tip number two, upload reference images. If you see a style that you like, upload it and say, "Create a new image in this same style." Chat can match the look of photos that you give it. This works really well for keeping a consistent style across multiple images. Tip number three, start a new chat for each project. Tip number four, always specify your aspect ratio. Again, Chat GPT defaults to square, but if you need landscape for a thumbnail or portrait for a story, say it in the prompt,

11:34 landscape 16:9 or portrait 23. Tip number five, for complex projects, try using the 03 model. It's a reasoning model and it's better at following multi-step instructions. So, if you need something specific, specific font, colors, or specific layout all in one image, 03 will handle that better than the default. Tip number six, if you hit the generation limit, just ask chatbt how much time until I can generate more images. It actually knows and can tell you. And tip number seven, I use the word create or draw or design in my [music] prompts. The these action words help ChatBT understand that you want an image and not just a text description. So, Chat GBT's image generation is the

12:19 best AI image tool that I've used for everyday stuff. Social media graphics, quick mockups, posters, memes, uh images with text on them. For for all of that, it's the clear winner right now. The text rendering alone puts it ahead of everything else. No other AI tool can spell words correctly in images the way ChatPT does right now. It's also the easiest to use. You just type what you want. No special commands, no settings to configure, no separate apps. Now, it does take about 30 seconds to a minute to generate each image. And sure, that's slower than some of the other tools. And if you need pixel perfect professional work with exact brand guidelines, you will still want a real design tool like Figma or Photoshop for the final version. But for 90% of what most people need, this does the job. and it's free

13:07 right now to try. So, if you want more prompts like the ones I share in this one, I share stuff like this every week in my school community, I'll drop the link in the description below for that. People share their best prompts, ask each other questions, and and help each other out. It's it's a great community there. Okay, if this video helped you out, do me a favor, hit that like button. It it really does help with the algorithm. And subscribe if you want more tutorials like this one. Now, go ahead, open up chatbt and try one of these prompts. Seriously, stop the video right now and go try. Well, we're about to end here, so just go ahead afterwards and try it out. I promise you're going to be surprised with what comes out. Thank you for watching and hanging out with me today, guys. I will see you in the next one.