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    Published June 14, 2025by CivitaiRorschach

    Tags for making your image even better

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    Anybody can put "masterpiece" in their tags to make a good image. To make a good image great is in tastefully picking the tags that aren't always optimal. Here's a selection of tags that can make a big difference.

    Border

    • Viewfinder

    • polaroid photo, Fake photograph

    Camera

    • Fisheye

    • Panorama

    • Depth of field

    • foreshortening - An object pointing towards the viewer made "shorter" than it really is.

    • blurry foreground

    • blurry background

    Camera Angle

    • Dutch angle - An image that is framed at a tilted angle.

    • From above

    • Vanishing point - When the perspective of a picture appears to draw the viewer's eye towards a central point.

    • Perspective - An image that greatly emphasizes the three-dimensional aspects of the subject.

    • From outside

    • Upper body

    • Cowboy shot - Face through thighs

    • Wide shot, very wide shot

    Lighting

    • Volumetric lighting

    • Backlighting, Sidelighting, Underlighting

    • Lens flare, heavy lens flare, Diffraction spikes

    • Atmospheric perspective

    • Chiaroscuro - Strong contrasts between light and dark across an entire composition.

    • Dappled sunlight, tree shadow

    • Vignetting - The image softly darkening around the edges.

    • Sunbeam, Light rays

    • crack of light

    • light particles

    • -Silhouette

    • -Backlighting

    • -Grayscale - Saturation boost

    • -muted color

    Lighting State

    • Sunset

    • Twilight

    • Stage lights - Basically frontal lighting.

    • Embers

    • Candlelight

    • Window shadow

    • Colored shadow

    Stylization

    • Abstract

    • Abstract Background

    • Surreal

    • Silhouette

    • Minimalism

    • Double exposure

    • Woven hatching - Woven hatching is a shading technique where the artist uses short sets of parallel marks in one direction. The effect looks woven or like a basket.

    • Pointilism - Artwork made up entirely - or almost entirely - out of dots.

    • Stippling - A shading technique, where shadow is applied using dots of varying density

    • Painterly

    • Spot color

    • colorful

    • lineart

    • graffiti art

    Background

    • Scenery, landscape, nature, mountains

    • Seascape

    • Architecture

    • Cityscape, urban, skyline, rooftop

    • Ruins

    • Loaded interior, messy room

    • Sky focus, cloud focus

    • bokeh - A photographic effect where circular out-of-focus points of light appear in the background of the image.

    • Reflection

    Posing

    • Pose, dynamic pose, dancing

    • Fighting stance

    • Motion blur, speed lines, motion lines, trembling

    • Flowing hair

    • hair spread out, hair flowing over

    • double v

    • heart hand duo

    • double thumbs up

    • planted sword

    • head tilt

    • semireclining position

    • crossed_legs_(sitting)

    Image Forms

    • Isometric

    • Partially underwater shot, caustics, refraction

    • Comic, multiple views, cut-in, collage

    • fine art parody

    • Poster

    • Magazine Cover (seems the highest quality "cover" variant)

    • official_wallpaper, ratio:16:9, ratio:9:16

    Thanks to Danbooru for the borrowed tag definitions.