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Surrealism food photography with AI
Menu and recipe images that look good enough to eat. In a surrealism style: impossible scenes painted with calm realism.
Prompts to start from
Each one is a food photography subject with the surrealism style words added: surrealism, dreamlike, impossible scale
a steaming bowl of ramen, surrealism, dreamlike, impossible scaleTry ita slice of lemon tart on a white plate, surrealism, dreamlike, impossible scaleTry itfresh sourdough loaf on linen, surrealism, dreamlike, impossible scaleTry it
Settings
- Shape: square. Use 1024x1024 on standard models or 2048x2048 on the 2K model.
- Cheapest way to try it: Fluently XL at $0.010 an image, so $0.10 for ten.
- New accounts get 3 free images a day on the cheaper models.
Tips
- Side light makes texture pop.
- Mention steam, glaze, crumbs. Small details sell it.
- Pair realistic rendering with impossible content.
- One impossible idea beats five.
Pick a model
| Model | Size | Per image | 10 images | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fluently XL | 1024x1024 | $0.010 | $0.10 | Try it |
| DreamShaper XL | 1024x1024 | $0.010 | $0.10 | Try it |
| Juggernaut Pro Flux | 1024x1024 | $0.030 | $0.30 | Try it |
| Chroma | 1024x1024 | $0.040 | $0.40 | Try it |
| Recraft V4.1 | 1024x1024 | $0.060 | $0.60 | Try it |
| Flux LoRA | 1024x1024 | $0.090 | $0.90 | Try it |
| Recraft V4.1 Pro | 2048x2048 | $0.33 | $3.30 | Try it |
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