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Make the slide image without a designer on call

When your job needs a diagram or a header and design is in another building. Honest limits: hands, logos, and “this looks like a real photo of our CEO.”

What you will learn

  • ✓Write a picture prompt with subject, setting, and what to leave out
  • ✓Know when a stock photo or a screenshot is still the right call
  • ✓Avoid generating fake people as if they work here
  • ✓Check text-in-image instead of presenting gibberish to a VP

Most jobs need a slide, not a gallery show. Image models are useful for a diagram vibe, a header texture, an icon-ish scene. They are bad at your real office, your real logo, and fingers.

Aside. The robot does not get your badge. Your manager still reads the email with your name on it.

A prompt that is not a novel

Subject: [what must be recognizable].

Setting: [simple].

Style: flat illustration, no photoreal faces.

Do not include: readable logos, real employee likeness, text in the image.

I will add labels in the slide tool.

If you need accurate text on the image, put the text in PowerPoint. Models still spell like they are guessing.

When not to generate

  • A photo of a named person
  • A “customer using the product” that never happened
  • Packaging that must match legal artwork
  • Anything you will print as if it were a photograph of an event

Try this today

Make one header for an internal deck. Look at the hands and the letters. If it is weird, use a solid color and a real screenshot. Screenshots do not hallucinate your product.

You are done when

You have one image you would put on an internal slide — or a conscious decision to use a screenshot instead.

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