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OpenAI Publishes a 30-Use-Case Image Prompting Playbook

OpenAI's new image-generation guide walks through infographics, photoreal portraits, comic strips, virtual try-on, character consistency, and 18 other production patterns.

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Editorial
May 11, 2026

OpenAI has published a comprehensive image-generation prompting playbook covering 30 production use cases for its image models.

The guide goes well past 'make me a logo' and into structured workflows: infographic layout, photoreal portrait lighting, comic-strip storyboards, virtual try-on, product mockups, character consistency across scenes, isometric illustrations, UI mockups, and editorial photography styles.

Each pattern ships with a tested prompt template, example outputs, and notes on the failure modes that show up when prompts drift. It is the most opinionated public guide OpenAI has released for image generation to date.

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Editorial
May 11, 2026 · 5 min read
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