TIL most people use AI image generators wrong by ignoring the negative prompt field

I was messing around with Midjourney last week trying to get a clean product photo for a client project. Everyone I saw in forums was just typing positive descriptions and hoping for the best. I started adding specific negative prompts like "no text, no glare, no background clutter" and the results got way better in under 10 tries. Why are so many tutorials skipping this part when it clearly makes or breaks the output?

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felix4887d ago

Is there any chance those tutorials are worried about confusing beginners with too many settings too early?

the_ben7d ago

And @felix488 I totally get that concern because I've been on the other side of it myself. When I first tried learning photography I felt SO overwhelmed by all the buttons and settings that tutorials just kind of glossed over. It honestly made me almost give up a few times because I thought I was just too stupid to figure it out. But looking back I think the good tutorials are trying to protect beginners from getting scared away by showing them just enough to take decent pictures first. The advanced stuff can come later once someone has their confidence built up and actually knows what terms like aperture and ISO mean in practice. I guess it's a fine line between holding someone's hand and actually teaching them something useful.