Prompt Architect — Modular Master Prompt Builder

Emir Can Yilmaz • Entwurf III • Prof. Felix Dölker

Hochschule Darmstadt — Faculty of Design

Winter semester 2025/26

This guide explains how to turn ideas into a portable, model-agnostic master prompt. Write in natural English without special tokens. Lead with the subject and a clear action so the model anchors composition.

• Subject + action — what appears and how it behaves.
• Setting + environment — place, palette, materials, atmosphere.
• Composition + framing — crop, scale, negative space; add a short lens / perspective hint.
• Lighting + exposure — mood, softness vs. hardness, gradients, shadow behavior.
• Aesthetic + realism — look and fidelity (e.g., editorial realism, stylized, hyperrealistic).
• Details — micro-focus like texture, edge quality, color separation.
• Negatives — remove text, watermarks, clutter, brand marks.

Prefer short, concrete sentences; avoid redundant synonyms. Two to four decisive attributes per module are enough. Leave platform flags out of the prompt; use the Model Options Cheatsheet in the main window to append platform-specific parameters manually.