Deformed Hands & Extra Fingers
The most infamous AI problem. Hands often appear with 6 fingers, missing fingers, twisted joints, or completely mangled anatomy. This happens because hands are complex and appear in many different positions in training data.
â NEGATIVE PROMPT SOLUTION:
"deformed hands, bad hands, mutated hands, extra fingers, missing fingers, fused fingers, too many fingers, malformed hands, poorly drawn hands, extra limbs, extra arms"
ðĄ Additional Tips:
- âĒ Hide hands behind back, in pockets, or out of frame
- âĒ Use "hands not visible" in your positive prompt
- âĒ Show hands holding objects (gives AI reference)
- âĒ Use inpainting to fix hands after generation
Blurry & Low Quality Images
Images come out soft, unfocused, or lacking detail. This is especially common in backgrounds, faces, or when generating at lower resolutions.
â NEGATIVE PROMPT SOLUTION:
"blurry, out of focus, soft focus, motion blur, unfocused, bokeh on subject, low resolution, low quality, pixelated, jpeg artifacts, compression artifacts, noisy, grainy"
ðĄ Positive Prompt Additions:
Add these to your main prompt: "8K resolution, ultra detailed, sharp focus, high definition, crisp details, professional photography"
Distorted & Ugly Faces
Faces appear asymmetric, with misaligned features, weird proportions, or uncanny valley effects. Eyes might be different sizes or pointing different directions.
â NEGATIVE PROMPT SOLUTION:
"ugly face, deformed face, distorted face, bad face, asymmetric face, crooked face, poorly drawn face, mutation, disfigured, bad proportions, malformed, unnatural face, weird face"
ðĄ Additional Tips:
- âĒ Use face restoration tools like GFPGAN or CodeFormer
- âĒ Add "symmetrical face, beautiful face" to positive prompt
- âĒ Generate at higher resolution for better facial details
Extra Limbs & Body Parts
People appear with three arms, four legs, extra heads, or duplicated body parts. This is common in complex poses or group shots.
â NEGATIVE PROMPT SOLUTION:
"extra limbs, extra arms, extra legs, extra hands, extra fingers, multiple limbs, duplicate limbs, fused limbs, conjoined, too many limbs, missing limbs, mutated limbs, malformed limbs"
Weird Eyes & Cross-Eyed Look
Eyes looking in different directions, uneven sizes, strange iris shapes, or that creepy "staring into your soul" effect.
â NEGATIVE PROMPT SOLUTION:
"cross-eyed, crossed eyes, strabismus, lazy eye, uneven eyes, asymmetric eyes, deformed eyes, bad eyes, poorly drawn eyes, weird eyes, creepy eyes, dead eyes, soulless eyes"
Bad Teeth & Mouth Problems
Teeth that look rotten, too many teeth, missing teeth, or mouths that look completely wrong. Open-mouth smiles are particularly problematic.
â NEGATIVE PROMPT SOLUTION:
"bad teeth, yellow teeth, rotten teeth, crooked teeth, missing teeth, too many teeth, deformed mouth, ugly mouth, bad lips, poorly drawn mouth, open mouth, showing teeth"
â ïļ Pro Tip:
Avoid open-mouth smiles in your positive prompt. Use "closed mouth smile", "slight smile", or "gentle smile" instead.
Watermarks & Text Artifacts
Random text, watermarks, signatures, or website URLs appearing in your generated images. This happens because training data included watermarked images.
â NEGATIVE PROMPT SOLUTION:
"watermark, text, logo, signature, username, copyright, trademark, banner, caption, subtitle, title, words, letters, writing, label, stamp, badge"
Bad Anatomy & Body Proportions
Bodies with impossible proportions, twisted spines, merged body parts, or anatomy that just doesn't look right.
â NEGATIVE PROMPT SOLUTION:
"bad anatomy, wrong anatomy, bad proportions, gross proportions, long neck, long body, twisted body, contorted, deformed body, mutated body, malformed body, anatomical nonsense, unnatural body"
Duplicate Objects & Clone Artifacts
Multiple copies of the same object, person, or element appearing when you only wanted one. Common with complex scenes.
â NEGATIVE PROMPT SOLUTION:
"duplicate, clone, copy, multiple, twins, doppelganger, repeated, cloned, double, twin, split image, two people, two faces, multiple faces, crowd"
ðĄ Positive Prompt Addition:
Be explicit: "one person", "single subject", "solo", "alone in frame"
Bad Composition & Cropping
Subject cut off at weird places, bad framing, elements touching the edges awkwardly, or overall poor composition.
â NEGATIVE PROMPT SOLUTION:
"cropped, cut off, out of frame, partial, bad framing, bad composition, poorly framed, awkward crop, head cut off, body cut off, clipped, poorly composed"
ðĄ Composition Tips:
- âĒ Specify shot type: "full body", "headshot", "medium shot"
- âĒ Add "centered composition" or "rule of thirds"
- âĒ Include "plenty of headroom" for portraits
ðŊ Universal Negative Prompt Template
Copy this comprehensive negative prompt to use as a starting point for all your generations:
"ugly, deformed, noisy, blurry, low contrast, distorted, poorly drawn, bad anatomy, wrong anatomy, extra limbs, missing limbs, floating limbs, disconnected limbs, mutation, mutated, ugly, disgusting, amputation, bad proportions, gross proportions, malformed, disfigured, deformed hands, bad hands, extra fingers, missing fingers, fused fingers, too many fingers, extra arms, extra legs, bad face, ugly face, poorly drawn face, cloned face, duplicate, watermark, text, logo, signature, cropped, out of frame, worst quality, low quality, jpeg artifacts"
ð§ Tool-Specific Negative Prompts
Midjourney
Use the --no parameter:
--no blur, ugly, deformed, watermark
Stable Diffusion
Separate negative prompt field. Also try:
Negative embedding: EasyNegative, badhandv4
DALL-E 3
Include in main prompt with "without" or "avoid":
"...without watermarks, avoiding blur"
Leonardo AI
Use the negative prompt field. Also enable:
Alchemy mode for better quality
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