Ideogram 4.5 prompt guide
Ideogram 4.5 is built for images that carry words: posters, logos, covers and labels. Put the words in quotes, say where they go and in what style, then describe the picture around them.
What Ideogram 4.5 takes
- Takes a prompt and up to 5 reference images.
- Aspect ratios: 1:1, 3:4, 4:3, 4:5, 9:16, 16:9.
- Settings: Low; Medium; High.
- From 2.25 credits per image.
The order to write a prompt in
- What it is: a poster, a logo, a book cover, a label.
- The text, word for word in quotes, with its type style and place.
- The picture: the subject, the colours and the composition.
- For an edit: what to change in the first image, and what to take from the others.
Tips
- Keep each piece of text short: a headline and one or two lines read best.
- Name the type style: bold sans-serif, hand-lettered script, retro serif, neon.
- Pick the quality in the settings: Low for drafts, High for the final design. The size does not change the price.
- For an edit, add the image to change first; the next 4 are references for a style or the objects to bring in.
- Ideogram expands a short prompt by itself; write a longer one when every detail matters.
Example prompts
A retro travel poster for Lisbon: a yellow tram climbing a steep street at sunset, terracotta roofs and the river behind. At the top in bold cream serif letters: "LISBON". At the bottom, smaller: "CITY OF SEVEN HILLS". Flat vintage print style, warm palette.
A minimal logo for a coffee roastery called "NORTH BEAN": a simple coffee bean inside a compass rose, the name below in a clean geometric sans-serif, dark green on an off-white background.
Change the headline on the poster to "GRAND OPENING" in the same font and colour, and put the logo from the second image in the bottom right corner. Keep everything else the same.