Negative Prompt Blueprints

What NOT to include — fix extra fingers, bad anatomy, blurry images, and common AI artifacts

🎯 Chaos Factor Guidance (CFG) is one of Midjourney's most misunderstood settings. Too high = oversaturated, too low = unrecognizable. A smart midjourney prompt builder analyzes your prompt complexity and recommends optimal CFG values. Simple prompts (1-5 blocks) → CFG 7-9. Complex stacks (6-12 blocks) → CFG 5-7. Very long prompts → CFG 3-5. No more guesswork.

Hands Anatomy Fingers

Hand Anatomy Fix

Negative prompt: extra fingers, missing fingers, fused fingers, distorted hands, claw hands, unnatural hand pose, wrong number of fingers, mangled hands, hand anatomy error --no extra fingers, missing fingers, distorted hands

🚫 Why this works: Hands are the most common AI failure. Being specific about what's wrong helps the AI avoid these issues.

Face Portrait Features

Face Distortion Fix

Negative prompt: deformed face, asymmetric eyes, wrong eye color, missing eye, extra eye, distorted mouth, melted face, bad face geometry, face artifacts, unnatural expression --no deformed face, asymmetric features, face artifacts

🚫 Why this works: Facial symmetry is critical for portraits. These terms target common AI face generation errors.

Quality Resolution Sharpness

Quality Issues Fix

Negative prompt: blurry, low resolution, pixelated, grainy, noisy, out of focus, soft focus, jpeg artifacts, compressed, low quality, poor detail, muddy colors, flat lighting --no blurry, low resolution, pixelated

🚫 Why this works: Quality keywords tell the AI you want sharp, clear images. These are essential for professional work.

Composition Framing Cropped

Composition Problems Fix

Negative prompt: cropped, cut off frame, subject out of frame, bad framing, poor composition, off-center badly, tilted horizon, bad angle, distracting background, cluttered composition --no cropped, cut off, bad framing

🚫 Why this works: Composition issues ruin otherwise good images. These terms help keep subjects properly framed.

Style Artifacts Unwanted

Style Artifacts Removal

Negative prompt: watermark, signature, text on image, copyright symbol, logo, date stamp, frame, border, ugly, messy, chaotic, oversaturated, oversharpened, plastic skin, waxy texture, CGI looking --no watermark, signature, text, logo

🚫 Why this works: Removes unwanted watermarks and plastic/AI looking textures. Essential for natural-looking images.

Body Proportion Anatomy

Body Proportion Fix

Negative prompt: bad anatomy, distorted body, extra limbs, missing limbs, mutated body, disproportionate, long neck, twisted torso, broken joints, unnatural pose, impossible pose, body horror --no bad anatomy, extra limbs, distorted body

🚫 Why this works: Body proportions often get distorted. These terms help maintain realistic human anatomy.

Lighting Exposure Shadows

Lighting Problems Fix

Negative prompt: harsh lighting, blown highlights, crushed shadows, uneven exposure, bad lighting, flat light, muddy shadows, overexposed, underexposed, wrong white balance, color cast, unflattering light --no harsh lighting, blown highlights, bad exposure

🚫 Why this works: Bad lighting ruins professional images. These terms help achieve proper exposure and mood.

Master Complete All-in-One

Complete Master Negative Prompt

Negative prompt: extra fingers, missing fingers, fused fingers, distorted hands, bad anatomy, extra limbs, missing limbs, deformed face, asymmetric eyes, blurry, low resolution, pixelated, cropped, cut off frame, watermark, signature, text on image, ugly, messy, oversaturated, plastic skin, waxy texture, CGI looking, harsh lighting, blown highlights --no bad anatomy, blurry, watermark, cropped, distorted

🚫 Why this works: This master negative prompt combines the most common fixes. Perfect for general use when you don't want to customize.

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🎓 How to Write Effective Negative Prompts

🚫 Anatomy Keywords

extra fingers, missing fingers = Hand fixes

deformed face, asymmetric eyes = Portrait fixes

bad anatomy, extra limbs = Body fixes

distorted proportions = Scale fixes

📷 Quality Keywords

blurry, low resolution = Sharpness fixes

pixelated, grainy = Clarity fixes

jpeg artifacts = Compression fixes

out of focus = Focus fixes

🎨 Style Keywords

watermark, signature = Text removal

plastic skin, waxy = Realism fixes

oversaturated = Color fixes

CGI looking = Natural fixes

📐 Composition Keywords

cropped, cut off = Framing fixes

bad framing = Composition fixes

cluttered background = Cleanup fixes

tilted horizon = Level fixes

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