Reference Guide

The Ultimate Negative Prompt List for Cleaner Images

4 Min Read • Updated: Dec 2025

Have you ever generated a beautiful portrait, only to find the subject has six fingers? To fix this, you need to tell the AI what not to draw. Below are copy-paste ready negative prompt lists for various scenarios.

Universal Quality Boosters

Use this list to remove common artifacts and improve general quality:

Copy This Prompt blurry, low quality, low res, pixelated, artifacts, noise, grain, text, watermark, logo, signature, bad anatomy, bad proportions, deformed, disconnected limbs, out of frame, jpeg artifacts

For Portraits and Human Figures

Humans are notoriously difficult for AI. Use this to fix eyes and hands:

Copy This Prompt cross-eyed, ugly, disfigured, mutation, mutated, extra limbs, extra fingers, missing fingers, missing arms, fused fingers, too many fingers, long neck, malformed hands, poorly drawn face, clone, double head

For Photorealism

If you want a photo-real look, you must banish artistic styles:

Copy This Prompt cartoon, anime, 3d render, painting, drawing, illustration, sketch, cel shading, vector art, black and white, monochrome

How to Use

Simply copy these blocks and paste them into the "Negative Prompt" field of your AI generator (Stable Diffusion, Leonardo AI, etc.). For Midjourney, append them to your prompt using the --no parameter (e.g., --no ugly text blurry).

Ready to Create?

You now have the negative prompts to create cleaner images. Don't just read about it—put it into practice.

Use our free Prompt Builder tool to visually construct complex prompts using these techniques without typing a single word.

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