Table 1.

Primary elements in 72,980 Stable Diffusion prompts.

Topic	Description
Subject	The characters and objects in the image, such as “a cyborg”, “two dogs”, “a car”, “a wizard”, etc.
Medium	The type of visual object that is the image, such as “digital illustration”, “photograph”, “3D render”, “concept art”, “poster”, etc.
Technique	The tools and software used to create the image, such as “Blender”, “pincushion lens”, “Unreal engine”, “Octane”, etc.
Genre	Aesthetic features that describe the artistic genre of the image, such as “anime”, “surreal”, “baroque”, “photorealistic”, sci-fi, black and white, epic fantasy, film noir, etc.
Mood	Features that describe the atmosphere and emotions of the image, such as “beautiful”, “eerie”, “bleak”, etc.
Tone	Features that describe the chromatic composition of the image, such as “pastel”, “synthwave colors”, “ethereal colors”, etc.
Lighting	The use of light and shadows in the image “dark”, "cinematic lighting", "realistic shaded lighting", "studio lighting", radiant light, etc.
Resolution	Features that describe the level of detail of the image, e.g. "highly-detailed", "photorealistic", "100 mm'', “8K”, “16K”, “HQ”, “sharp focus”, etc.
Artistic References	Artists or works of art to use as inspiration, e.g. “Greg Rutkowski”, “Studio Ghibli”, “Artgerm”, “Zaha Hadid”, etc.
Reception/Popularity	Awards, recognition, or trending status on art-focused platforms,. e.g. "trending on artstation", “masterpiece”, "award-winning”, etc.