Write in Clear, Connected Sentences
Better: A girl in an ornate dress walks under a parasol along a tree-lined avenue, in a Monet-inspired oil painting style.
How to Write Better Seedream Prompts
Subject · Action · Environment+Style · Lighting · Composition+Output purpose
Subject + Action + Environment
+ Style · Lighting · Composition
+ Output purpose
+ What must stay unchanged
+ Style · Lighting · Composition
+ Output purpose
+ What must stay unchanged
How Do You Write a Good Seedream Prompt?
Which Seedream Models Does This Prompt Guide Cover?
Practical Seedream Prompt Formulas
Text-to-image formula
Image-editing formula
Reference-image formula
Start concise. Not every prompt needs every field. Add only the details that provide meaningful control over the result.
Seedream Prompt Builder
Create an ecommerce homepage hero image featuring a matte-black wireless speaker presented as the main focal point on a light concrete pedestal. Use a clean, premium product advertising style with soft directional studio lighting. Compose the image from a three-quarter view with negative space on the right for product copy.
Six Rules for Writing Better Seedream Prompts
State the Image Purpose
Example: Create a square Instagram ad for a wireless speaker, with a clear product focal point and space for a short promotional headline.
Give Specific Visual Direction
Example: Use a clean editorial-photography style, muted neutral colors, soft window light, and shallow depth of field.
Put Exact Image Text in Quotation Marks
Create a poster with the headline “Seedream Prompt Guide”.
Name the Exact Edit Target
Change the largest suitcase on the right to navy blue.
Specify What Should Remain Unchanged
Keep the face, hairstyle, pose, background, lighting, and camera angle unchanged.
Seedream Text-to-Image Prompt Examples
Organize a Dense Scene by Position and Relationship
Create a cluttered office desk scene. Place an open laptop in the center with green code on the screen. Add a steaming mug labeled “Developer,” an open book showing a Venn diagram, a sticky note with a mind map, a fountain pen, a phone notification, and a small succulent. Use a softly blurred bookshelf in the background and natural sunlight from the right.
Divide a Complex Layout into Clear Zones
Create an interior view of an open refrigerator. Place a milk carton and eight eggs on the top shelf. Add leftover roast chicken and a transparent strawberry container to the middle shelf. Include lettuce, carrots, and tomatoes in the lower drawer, with ketchup and mayonnaise on the door shelves. Keep each section clearly organized.
Use Exact Terms and Source Information
On a classroom blackboard, write the following system of linear equations and show the complete solution step by step: 5x + 2y = 26; 2x - y = 5. Use clear mathematical notation, readable spacing, and an organized classroom-teaching layout.
Name the Visual Format and Information Structure
Create an educational infographic explaining the main causes of inflation. Present each cause in a separate section with a short label, a concise explanation, and a supporting icon. Use a clean layout with clear hierarchy and readable spacing.
Seedream Image Editing Prompts
Add an Object That Matches the Scene
Add matching silver threader earrings and a silver necklace to the woman. Match the existing scale, materials, lighting, and shadows. Keep her face, hairstyle, clothing, pose, camera angle, and background unchanged.
Remove an Object Cleanly
Remove the woman’s hat and reconstruct the covered hair naturally. Keep her face, expression, pose, clothing, lighting, camera angle, and background unchanged.
Replace an Object While Preserving Its Role
Replace the largest bread character with a croissant character. Keep the same pose, facial expression, size, position, lighting, and overall scene composition.
Change Material, Color, and Action
Turn the three robots into transparent crystal. Make the left robot red, the middle robot yellow, and the right robot green. Have the green robot run, the yellow robot walk, and the red robot stand still. Keep their positions, shapes, background, and composition unchanged.
Use Boxes, Arrows, or Scribbles to Mark an Edit Area
Place a television in the red-marked area and a sofa in the blue-marked area. Keep the existing room layout unchanged, and match both objects to the room’s natural-wood interior style.
Resize and Restyle Text Inside a Marked Box
Enlarge the title to fill the red box, then match its color and typography style to the saxophone graphic.
Seedream Reference Image Prompts
Preserve a Character’s Identity
Use the character from the reference image to create a realistic anime-style collectible figure displayed on a desk. Keep the character’s facial identity, hairstyle, outfit details, and overall visual style consistent.
Create a Consistent Icon Set from a Style Reference
Use the clean, minimal line-art style from the reference image to design nine app icons. Keep the stroke weight, proportions, spacing, and color palette consistent.
Turn a Referenced Character into a New Material
Turn the character in the reference image into a needle-felt figure on a dark wooden desk. Preserve the character’s recognizable shape, pose, colors, and defining details.
Preserve a Clothing Design
Create four tops in different materials and colors while preserving the exact clothing design. Keep the silhouette, seams, neckline, sleeves, and structural details consistent.
Turn a Floor Plan into a Finished Interior
Use this floor plan to create a realistic modern living room with an open dining area. Preserve the room layout, wall positions, furniture placement, and viewing direction.
Turn a Wireframe into a High-Fidelity Interface
Turn this hand-drawn wireframe into a high-fidelity desktop home-rental listing page. Preserve the layout, hierarchy, gallery position, property details, and booking panel.
Seedream Multi-Image Prompts
Replace a Subject Using Two Images
Replace the main subject in Image 1 with the main subject from Image 2. Keep the pose, position, camera angle, background, lighting, and composition from Image 1.
Combine a Person and an Outfit
Dress the person from Image 1 in the outfit shown in Image 2. Preserve the person’s face, hairstyle, proportions, and pose. Adapt the clothing naturally to the perspective and lighting.
Transfer a Visual Style Between Images
Apply the visual style, color palette, texture, and line treatment of Image 2 to Image 1. Preserve the original subject, layout, composition, and recognizable details from Image 1.
Use a clear source image
Follow image text
Name what stays fixed
Seedream Prompts for Consistent Image Sets
Create a Consistent Storyboard Sequence
Generate four coherent cinematic storyboard frames showing an astronaut repairing a spacecraft, taking cover from a meteor shower, and returning safely. Keep the astronaut, spacesuit, environment, camera language, lighting, and color treatment consistent.
Generate a Coordinated Brand Asset Set
Use the reference logo to create a coordinated outdoor-sports identity for “GREEN.” Generate a shopping bag, cap, card, wristband, box, and lanyard with one modern, minimal visual system.
Generate a Consistent Wallpaper Series
Generate seven mobile wallpapers, one for each day of the week. Keep the illustration style, typography, layout, color treatment, and visual quality consistent across the full set.
Make the multi-output intent explicit with phrases such as “a series of,” “a set of,” or an exact number of images.
Seedream Prompt Templates
Social Media Ad
Create a [platform] ad for [product] aimed at [audience]. Use a [visual style] aesthetic, a clear product focal point, and enough negative space for the headline “[text]”.
Event Poster
Create a poster for [event] with the headline “[title],” the date “[date],” and the location “[place].” Use a [visual style] aesthetic with clear visual hierarchy and readable text placement.
Product Hero
Create a premium product hero image featuring [product] on [surface]. Use [lighting] and a [camera angle] view, and leave negative space on the [side] for product copy.
Precise Image Edit
Change [exact target] to [desired result]. Match the existing perspective, lighting, shadows, materials, and texture. Keep [preservation list] unchanged.
Wireframe-to-UI Prompt
Turn this wireframe into a high-fidelity [desktop/mobile] interface. Preserve the original layout, hierarchy, content structure, and component positions, then add realistic visual details where needed.
Character Sheet
Create a character design sheet for [character]. Show front, side, and back views, plus three facial expressions. Keep the character’s identity, proportions, clothing details, and visual style consistent.
Storyboard Sequence
Generate [number] coherent storyboard frames for [story]. List each scene in order, and keep the characters, wardrobe, setting, lighting, camera style, and visual treatment consistent.
Infographic
Create an educational infographic explaining [topic]. Organize the information into clearly labeled sections with simple icons, clear hierarchy, readable spacing, and a [color palette].
Scientific Diagram
Create a scientifically accurate, labeled diagram of [system]. Use correct terminology, directional arrows, clear labels, and a supporting legend.
Logo and Icon Set
Create a set of [number] consistent icons for [app or brand], covering [icon list]. Use a [visual style] aesthetic and a [color palette], with consistent stroke weight, proportions, and spacing across every icon.
Floor Plan to Interior
Turn this floor plan into a realistic rendering of a [room type]. Preserve the wall positions, room layout, furniture placement, and viewing direction shown in the reference. Use a [design style] interior aesthetic with [lighting].
Style Transfer
Apply the visual style, color palette, texture, and line treatment of Image 2 to Image 1. Preserve the original subject, composition, layout, and recognizable details from Image 1.
Fix Common Seedream Prompt Problems
Vague Edit Target
Weak: Change it to blue.
Better: Change the largest suitcase on the right to navy blue.
Missing Preservation Rules
Weak: Replace the woman’s jacket with a leather jacket.
Better: Replace the woman’s jacket with a black leather jacket. Keep her face, hairstyle, pose, body proportions, background, lighting, and camera angle unchanged.
Ambiguous References
Weak: Use the person from the other image and copy that style.
Better: Use the person from Image 1 and the visual style from Image 2. Preserve the person’s facial identity, hairstyle, and body proportions.
Conflicting Styles
Weak: Make it photorealistic, flat vector, watercolor, 3D, and pencil sketch.
Better: Use a soft watercolor-illustration style with visible paper texture and muted pastel colors.
Unclear Poster Layout
Weak: Create a technology poster.
Better: Create a vertical technology-event poster with the headline “CREATE THE FUTURE” at the top, a central abstract light form, and the event date and location in a clean footer section.