Image Style Grab
Image to prompt
Upload any photo, illustration or render and get its style, lighting, camera and composition written out as a reusable AI prompt. Free, no sign-up.
Drop an image here
or choose one from your device
Generated prompt
Upload an image to generate your prompt. The sample Output will look like this
Create an image based on the following guidelines: a cinematic, high-contrast cyberpunk street at night, a lone figure in a translucent raincoat walking away from camera down a narrow alley. Wide shot, camera at chest height, subject centred on the lower third with signage filling the frame above. Key light from magenta neon on the left, cyan spill from a vending machine on the right, wet asphalt bouncing both back up; deep unlit shadows between the light sources. Palette: magenta, cyan, black, one warm sodium accent. 35mm at f/2, subject sharp, signage falling soft, visible rain streaks and light haze, fine film grain, no lens flare, no text artefacts.
Try a popular style
Hover a card to preview the style or copy its ready-to-paste prompt.
Music card collage
Layered frames with a floating player
Flash effect
Y2K digicam direct-flash selfies
Anime
Cel-shaded anime key-visual portraits
Cinematic night
Neon-noir rainy street stills
3D avatar
Soft toy-like 3D characters
Magazine cover
Glossy editorial cover layouts
What an image style grab returns
A reference image carries dozens of decisions at once. The grab separates them so you can reuse the ones you actually want: what the subject is and where it sits in frame, how the scene is lit and from which direction, what the perspective and apparent focal length suggest, and how colour, contrast and texture behave across the picture.
Style only keeps the background, art style, colour grading and effects while leaving the character's outfit, pose and mannerisms out, so your own subject comes through untouched.
Style + character keeps the wardrobe, posture and expression as well — use it when you want to reproduce the reference closely rather than borrow its look.
How to turn an image into a prompt
1. Upload the image
Drop a JPEG, PNG or WebP into the image style grab.
2. Choose what to keep
Pick Style only for the look and surroundings, or Style + character to include outfit and pose.
3. Generate the prompt
Promptify returns a reusable prompt covering subject, composition, lighting, camera and finish.
4. Paste it into your generator
Use it in Midjourney, DALL·E or Flux and swap in your own subject.
Image to prompt FAQ
What does the image style grab do?
It reads a photo, illustration or render and writes back the choices behind it — subject and framing, lighting direction and quality, apparent lens and depth of field, colour grading, texture and finish — as a single prompt you can paste into any image generator.
Is the image to prompt generator free?
Yes. It is completely free with no account, sign-up, credit card or usage credits.
Can I get only the art style without copying the character?
Yes. Choose Style only and the prompt describes the background, art style, colour grading and effects without locking in the character's outfit, pose or mannerisms. Choose Style + character to keep those too.
Which generators does the prompt work in?
The output is plain descriptive language, so it works in Midjourney, DALL·E, Stable Diffusion, Flux, Ideogram, Gemini and most other image models.
What kind of images work best?
Images with one clear subject and a readable lighting direction. Busy collages, heavy watermarks and very low resolution files produce vaguer descriptions — crop tighter on the part you care about and run it again.
Keep going
Browse the style gallery, grab a website theme or a poster layout, or read how to write better AI image prompts.