Grok Imagine Prompt Generator

Updated for Imagine Image 2.0, xAI's Quality Mode model released August 2026. Fill in structured inputs and our AI writes the prompt as a design brief — subject, layout, exact quoted text, style, light — the order Image 2.0 responds to best. Built for the things this model is unusually good at: legible typography, dense layouts, product work and precise edits.

Model
Imagine Image 2.0 (Quality Mode)
Output
1K & 2K, 9 aspect ratios
Strength
Designer-grade typography
References
Up to 5 in app, 3 via API

Be specific: describe who/what is in the image with details

Generated Prompt

Fill in the form and click "Generate" to create an optimized Grok Imagine Image 2.0 prompt.

Tip: Be as specific as possible with your subject description. Instead of "a dog," try "a golden retriever puppy with a red bandana."

Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Tips

  • • Write a design brief, not a caption — subject, then layout, then exact text, then style, then light
  • • Front-load what matters most: Image 2.0 weights earlier tokens more heavily
  • • Put on-image text in "double quotes" and describe the font loosely ("bold condensed sans-serif"), never by brand name
  • • State layout structurally — "headline across the top third, product lower right" — dense multi-part layouts hold up
  • • There is no negative prompt field: write "clean uncluttered background" instead of "no clutter"
  • • Give every reference image a role ("Reference 1: keep this label exact") — unassigned references blend indiscriminately
  • • Editing? Change one region at a time and add "keep everything else exactly as it is"

Grok Imagine 2.0 Prompt Templates

Copy-ready briefs built around what Image 2.0 actually rewards — structural layout, exact quoted text, assigned reference roles and single-region edits. Swap the [BRACKETED] parts for your own details and paste straight into grok.com/imagine, the Grok app, or the grok-imagine-image-2.0 API.

Editorial Product Poster

Product & Commerce

Hero poster for a launch, with a headline the model actually renders legibly.

An editorial product poster for [PRODUCT]. The product sits centred on the lower two-thirds, shot three-quarter view on a [SURFACE/BACKDROP]. Headline "[HEADLINE]" across the top third in a bold condensed sans-serif, [COLOR], with the subline "[SUBLINE]" in a thin serif directly beneath it. Small caption "[CAPTION]" bottom left. [PALETTE] palette, generous negative space, thin rule lines. Soft diffused studio light from the upper left with a gentle falloff shadow to the right. Clean, printable, single clear subject.

Aspect ratio 4:5.

E-commerce Pack Shot

Product & Commerce

Marketplace-ready catalogue image on a clean seamless background.

A catalogue pack shot of [PRODUCT] on a seamless [COLOR] background. Straight-on three-quarter framing, product fills roughly 70% of the frame, centred with even margins. Show [MATERIAL DETAIL — e.g. brushed aluminium body, matte ceramic glaze, embossed logo] crisply. Flat even studio light, soft contact shadow directly beneath, no colour cast. Sharp focus edge to edge, true-to-life colour, single clear subject, clean uncluttered background.

Aspect ratio 1:1.

Product Colourway Swap

Editing

A single targeted edit with a preservation clause — the way Image 2.0 wants edits phrased.

Change the [OBJECT]'s [PART — e.g. upholstery, casing, label] to [NEW COLOUR AND MATERIAL — e.g. forest green corduroy, matte sand-beige aluminium]. Keep the shape, the lighting, the shadows, the background, the reflections, and everything else in the frame exactly as it is. Match the new material's texture to the existing light direction.

Multi-Reference Composite

Editing

Roles assigned to each reference so they compose instead of blending into mush.

Reference 1: the product — keep its shape, label, and colour exact.
Reference 2: art direction — match this palette, grain, and overall mood.
Reference 3: the scene — place the product in this environment at [POSITION IN SCENE].

Generate a single image combining them: [PRODUCT] resting on [SURFACE] within the reference scene, [FRAMING — e.g. three-quarter view at table height]. Preserve the product exactly as supplied; adapt only the light on it to match the scene. [LIGHTING]. Clean composition, single clear subject.

Aspect ratio 3:2.

Professional Headshot

People

Corporate or LinkedIn headshot with controlled light and wardrobe.

A professional corporate headshot of [PERSON DESCRIPTION — age range, hair, build]. Wearing [WARDROBE]. Head and shoulders framing, body angled slightly to camera left, eyes to lens, [EXPRESSION — e.g. warm confident half-smile]. Background: a softly defocused [BACKGROUND — e.g. neutral grey studio wall, modern office in shallow depth of field]. Rembrandt key light from camera left with a soft fill on the right and a subtle hair light. Natural skin texture, sharp focus on the eyes, true-to-life colour.

Aspect ratio 4:5.

Cinematic Character Portrait

People

Aurora-lineage character work — appearance, posture, emotion and atmosphere in one brief.

A [SHOT TYPE — e.g. tight waist-up] portrait of [CHARACTER — appearance, hair, build, age]. Wearing [CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES, with materials — e.g. cracked oxblood leather, tarnished silver clasps]. Posture: [POSE — e.g. shoulders squared, chin lowered, one hand resting on the hilt]. Expression: [EMOTION]. Setting: [ENVIRONMENT] behind them, softly out of focus. [LIGHTING — e.g. golden-hour rim light from behind, cool blue fill from the left]. Wind moving [DETAIL — e.g. loose strands of hair, the edge of the cloak]. Rich material texture, filmic colour, shallow depth of field.

Aspect ratio 2:3.

Infographic / Explainer Card

Typography & Layout

Dense multi-part layout — the exact case Image 2.0 was tuned for.

An explainer card about [TOPIC]. Title "[TITLE]" across the top in a bold sans-serif. Below it, [NUMBER] numbered steps stacked down the left column, each with a short bold label and one line of smaller caption text: "1. [STEP ONE]", "2. [STEP TWO]", "3. [STEP THREE]". A simple [ILLUSTRATION/DIAGRAM] occupies the right column, aligned to the step it explains. Footer strip along the bottom reading "[FOOTER]". [BACKGROUND COLOUR] background, [ACCENT COLOUR] accents, thin rule lines separating sections, generous margins. Flat even light, no shadows. Small text stays sharp and legible.

Aspect ratio 4:3.

Social Announcement Graphic

Typography & Layout

Feed-ready post where the copy has to be perfectly readable at thumbnail size.

A social announcement graphic for [BRAND/EVENT]. Large headline "[HEADLINE]" filling the centre in a heavy geometric sans-serif, [TEXT COLOUR], tight letter spacing, two lines maximum. Below it the detail line "[DATE / DETAIL]" in a smaller uppercase sans with wide tracking. [LOGO OR MARK DESCRIPTION] small in the top left corner. Background: [BACKGROUND — e.g. a smooth two-stop gradient from deep indigo to violet]. Simple geometric accent shapes at the lower right, nothing crossing the text. Flat even light, high contrast between text and background, clean and uncluttered.

Aspect ratio 1:1.

App UI Mockup

Typography & Layout

Screen mockups where labels, nav items and small type must read correctly.

A [PLATFORM — e.g. mobile app] UI mockup for [APP PURPOSE]. Screen shown straight-on, centred, on a [BACKGROUND] backdrop with a soft drop shadow. Top bar reads "[SCREEN TITLE]" with a back chevron on the left and a [ICON] on the right. Body: [DESCRIBE SECTIONS — e.g. a summary card with the figure "[VALUE]" and label "[LABEL]", followed by a three-row list with the entries "[ROW 1]", "[ROW 2]", "[ROW 3]"]. Bottom navigation with [NUMBER] icons, the [WHICH] one active. [LIGHT/DARK] theme, [ACCENT COLOUR] accent, rounded corners, generous padding, modern sans-serif throughout at consistent sizes. Flat even light, small text sharp.

Aspect ratio 9:16.

Icon Set / Logo Mark

Design Assets

Consistent icon families or a single mark, exported clean.

A set of [NUMBER] [STYLE — e.g. flat vector, rounded line] icons for [THEME], arranged in an evenly spaced [GRID — e.g. 3x2] grid with equal padding around each. Icons: [ICON 1], [ICON 2], [ICON 3], [ICON 4]. Consistent stroke weight, consistent corner radius, consistent optical size across all of them. [COLOUR SCHEME — e.g. single-colour deep navy on white; or duotone coral and cream]. Plain [BACKGROUND COLOUR] background, no text labels, no drop shadows. Flat even light, crisp edges, geometry aligned to a pixel grid.

Aspect ratio 3:2.

Mascot & Character Sprite Sheet

Design Assets

A repeatable character in multiple poses — consistency is the whole point.

A character sprite sheet for [CHARACTER — species/type, colours, defining features], drawn in [STYLE — e.g. chunky flat vector with a bold outline]. Show the same character in [NUMBER] poses in a single evenly spaced row: [POSE 1], [POSE 2], [POSE 3], [POSE 4]. Identical proportions, identical palette, identical line weight and identical eye and face design in every pose — only the body position changes. Plain [BACKGROUND COLOUR] background, each pose fully inside its own cell with even margins. Flat even light, no shadows, crisp outlines.

Aspect ratio 2:1.

Merch / Apparel Print

Design Assets

Print-ready artwork with the slogan rendered exactly as typed.

A [STYLE — e.g. vintage screen-print] apparel graphic for [BRAND/THEME]. Central artwork: [ILLUSTRATION DESCRIPTION]. The words "[MAIN TEXT]" arc across the top in a [FONT STYLE — e.g. bold slab serif with a slight distress texture], and "[SECONDARY TEXT]" sits in a straight line beneath the artwork in a smaller condensed sans. Limited [NUMBER]-colour palette: [COLOURS]. Designed to sit flat on a [GARMENT COLOUR] shirt, centred with even margins, no background box. Flat even light, clean edges, print-ready.

Aspect ratio 1:1.

Transparent Cutout Asset

Editing

Background-removed subject you can drop straight into a layout.

[SUBJECT — describe fully: form, materials, colours] isolated as a standalone asset. [FRAMING — e.g. three-quarter view, slightly above eye level]. Fully transparent background with a clean cut-out edge, no halo, no fringing, no ground shadow. Even wraparound studio light so every side is readable, gentle specular highlights on [MATERIAL]. Sharp focus throughout, true-to-life colour.

Aspect ratio 1:1.

Atmospheric Scene

Scenes

Landscapes and worldbuilding where light carries the mood.

A [WIDE/ESTABLISHING] shot of [LOCATION]. Foreground: [FOREGROUND ELEMENT]. Mid-ground: [MAIN SUBJECT OR STRUCTURE]. Background: [DISTANT ELEMENT] fading into [ATMOSPHERE — e.g. early morning mist, dusk haze]. [LIGHTING — e.g. low golden-hour sun raking from the left, long shadows across the ground]. [WEATHER/AIR — e.g. light drizzle beading on stone, drifting embers]. Materials: [TEXTURES — e.g. wet slate, weathered timber, damp moss]. Deep atmospheric perspective, filmic colour grade, calm uncluttered composition.

Aspect ratio 16:9.

Grok Imagine Update Log

Grok Imagine Image 2.0

● LatestAugust 7, 2026
  • xAI shipped Imagine Image 2.0 as the new Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and in the Grok iOS and Android apps — built, in xAI's words, to "make images you can use in real work."
  • Typography and layout are now planned before rendering, the way a designer works: dense, multi-part compositions hold together and small text stays sharp.
  • Region-level editing arrived as a first-class feature — a magic wand that changes only the area you point at, segmentation for precise selections, and one-step background removal with transparent export.
  • Multi-reference generation accepts up to 5 input images in a single generation inside the Grok apps, removing most manual compositing.
  • Smart Resize recomposes a finished image across nine aspect ratios (1:2, 9:16, 2:3, 3:4, 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 2:1) by refilling the frame rather than cropping it.
  • Around 15 ready-made templates shipped at launch, covering photo edits, product colour changes, editorial product posters, collages, background replacement, e-commerce and UGC photos, professional headshots, mascots, icons, character sprites, props and UI kits, emoji and merch.
  • On the Arena leaderboards at launch it ranked #2 in the world in both text-to-image (1,320) and image editing (1,439), behind OpenAI's gpt-image-2 — up from roughly 1,228 and 1,390 for the previous generation.

Image 2.0 API access

August 2026
  • The model reached the xAI API as `grok-imagine-image-2.0`, priced around $0.04 per image at low/1K and $0.08 at medium/2K, with image inputs billed separately (~$0.01 each).
  • API requests return up to 10 images per call and accept up to 3 source images for multi-image editing — fewer than the 5 references the consumer apps allow.
  • Also mirrored through third-party gateways such as OpenRouter for teams already routing traffic there.

Grok Imagine — Aurora image model

May 2026
  • Aurora became the default image model for Grok Imagine, with the older "Image Pro" model deprecated and retired on May 15, 2026.
  • Built on xAI's Aurora autoregressive mixture-of-experts engine — it generates image tokens sequentially rather than denoising, giving native multimodal text-and-image understanding. Image 2.0 continues that lineage.
  • Supported up to 2K output, reference-based editing, and up to 10 outputs per run.

Grok Imagine — January 2026 update

January 2026
  • Noticeably improved skin textures and lighting realism for portraits and people.
  • Aurora exposed via the Grok Imagine API for text-to-image generation and reference-based editing.

Aurora launch

December 2024
  • xAI introduced Aurora, its native multimodal engine, replacing third-party image backends inside Grok.
  • Brought photorealistic generation plus intelligent editing of existing images from natural-language prompts.

Popular Grok Imagine 2.0 Use Cases

Where Image 2.0's typography, precise editing and multi-reference composition earn their keep.

Posters, infographics & dense layouts

Image 2.0's headline capability. It plans type and layout before rendering, so headlines, numbered steps, captions and footers land where you put them — and small text stays legible.

Product & e-commerce photography

Pack shots, colourway variants, UGC-style lifestyle images and editorial product posters. Nine of the launch templates target commerce work specifically.

Region edits & retouching

The magic wand and segmentation let you change one area — a colour, a garment, an object — while everything else stays byte-for-byte intact. Chain single edits rather than bundling them.

Multi-reference composites

Feed up to five references and give each a role — one for the product, one for art direction, one for the scene. Named roles compose; unnamed references blend indiscriminately.

Design assets & game art

Icon sets, character sprites, mascots, props and UI kits, emoji and merch prints — with consistent stroke weight, palette and proportion across a set.

Headshots & character portraits

The Aurora lineage still does rich character work: detailed appearance, posture and emotion, plus controlled studio lighting for professional headshots.

Transparent cutout assets

One-step background removal exports subjects with a clean alpha edge, ready to drop into decks, sites and layouts without a round trip through an editor.

Campaign resizing

Lock a hero image, then use Smart Resize to refill it into all nine ratios — 1:2 tall banners through 2:1 wide ones — instead of cropping and losing the composition.

How to Use the Prompt Generator

1

Describe Your Vision

Pick a category, describe your subject, and — this is the part that matters for Image 2.0 — fill in the layout field and any on-image text. Say where things sit and what the words say; the model plans typography before it renders.

2

Generate Your Prompt

Our AI assembles a design brief in the order Image 2.0 rewards — subject, layout, quoted text, style, light — front-loading what matters and converting any exclusions into positive descriptions, since the model has no negative prompt field.

3

Copy, Create & Refine

Paste into grok.com/imagine, the Grok app, or the API. Once you have a keeper, refine it with single region edits rather than re-rolling, then use Smart Resize to refill it into the other eight aspect ratios.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Grok Imagine Image 2.0?

Imagine Image 2.0 is xAI's image generation and editing model, released on August 7, 2026 as the Quality Mode inside Grok Imagine. xAI positions it as a model for "images you can use in real work": it follows instructions closely, plans typography and layout like a designer, and treats editing as a first-class feature rather than an add-on. At launch it ranked #2 in the world on the Arena leaderboards for both text-to-image (1,320) and image editing (1,439), behind OpenAI's gpt-image-2.

What changed between Image 2.0 and the previous Grok Imagine model?

Four things. Typography and layout are now planned before rendering, so dense multi-part compositions and small text hold up. Editing became precise — a magic wand for region-level changes, segmentation for exact selections, and one-step background removal with transparent export. Multi-reference generation accepts up to five input images at once. And Smart Resize recomposes a finished image across nine aspect ratios by refilling the frame instead of cropping. Arena scores moved from roughly 1,228 to 1,320 on text-to-image and 1,390 to 1,439 on editing.

How should I structure an Image 2.0 prompt?

Write a short design brief, not a caption. Name the subject, then the layout, then the exact on-image words in quotation marks, then the style, then the light — in that order. The model weights earlier tokens more heavily, so front-load whatever matters most. Describe layout structurally ("headline across the top third, product lower right"), and describe fonts loosely ("bold condensed sans-serif") rather than naming a commercial typeface. Our generator applies all of this automatically.

Can Image 2.0 render text in images?

Yes — it is the model's defining strength. Image 2.0 plans typography and layout the way a designer would, keeps small text sharp, and holds up in dense, text-heavy compositions like infographics, posters and UI mockups. Put the exact words in double quotes so they render verbatim, and specify size hierarchy, colour and placement. If you leave the copy unspecified, the model will invent its own.

How many reference images can I use?

The Grok apps and grok.com/imagine accept up to five reference images in a single generation. Via the xAI API, multi-image editing accepts up to three source images per request. In both cases, assign each reference a role in the prompt — "Reference 1: keep this product's shape and label exact; Reference 2: match this palette and grain." References without stated roles blend together indiscriminately.

What aspect ratios does Image 2.0 support?

Nine, running from a 1:2 tall banner to a 2:1 wide one: 1:2, 9:16, 2:3, 3:4, 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 and 2:1. Smart Resize can recompose an existing image into any of them by refilling the frame rather than cropping, so the practical workflow is to lock a hero image first and resize afterwards.

Can I use negative prompts with Grok Imagine?

No — there is no negative prompt field. Instead of "no clutter, no watermarks," describe the positive state you want: "clean uncluttered background, single clear subject." Our generator rewrites any exclusions you enter into their positive equivalents automatically.

Is Image 2.0 available via API?

Yes. It reached the xAI API in August 2026 as `grok-imagine-image-2.0`, priced around $0.04 per image at low/1K and $0.08 at medium/2K, with image inputs billed separately at roughly $0.01 each. A single request can return up to 10 images. It is also available through gateways such as OpenRouter. Prompts from this tool paste directly into either the API or the consumer apps.

What are the built-in Grok Imagine templates?

xAI shipped around 15 ready-made workflows at launch: photo edit, product colour change, editorial product poster, reimagine, photo collage, mascot maker, background removal and change, e-commerce photos, UGC photos, professional headshot, icon maker, character sprite, props and UI kit, emoji creator and merch maker. Nine of the fifteen target commerce, marketing or product work. The prompt templates on this page cover the same ground in copy-paste form.

How do I edit an image without breaking the rest of it?

Make one change at a time and add a preservation clause: "Change the armchair's upholstery to forest green corduroy. Keep the light, the shadows, the floor, and everything else exactly as it is." Chaining single edits leaves you a usable version at every step; bundling five changes into one instruction tends to disturb areas you wanted untouched.

Is this tool free to use?

Yes — you get 1 free prompt generation per day with no signup required, and the prompt templates on this page are free to copy without limit. For unlimited access, a Promptslove membership includes all AI tools and 20,000+ premium prompts.

Can Grok Imagine generate videos too?

Yes — Grok Imagine supports text-to-video and image-to-video alongside image generation. This tool focuses on Image 2.0 stills; our separate Grok Imagine Video Prompt Generator is tuned for motion, audio and multi-shot sequences.

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