Guide · Describe Kit
How to Get the Prompt Behind Any Image
You find an image with exactly the look you want and have no idea how to ask for it. The Describe Kit closes that gap: upload the picture and Promly writes the prompt that would produce it — the style, the lighting, the framing, the medium — in a form you can paste straight into another Kit and make your own.
What "describing an image" means here
Describe runs the pipeline backwards. Every other Kit turns words into a picture; this one turns a picture into words — specifically, into the kind of structured prompt an image model actually responds to. Not "a nice photo of a woman," but the subject, the shot, the lens feel, the light, the palette and the medium, written the way a prompt engineer would write them.
That is useful for three things: understanding why an image looks the way it does, reproducing a look you like across your own subjects, and learning what good prompts are made of by reading ones that already work.
Before you start: the Describe Kit is available on paid accounts — any plan, or a one-off Pixel pack. It is not part of the free tier, so this is one guide where the free 15 Pixels won't get you there.
What you'll need
- One image — JPG, PNG or WebP. It can be an AI image, a photograph, an illustration or a screenshot of a style you like.
- A paid Promly account — any subscription tier, or a bought Pixel pack.
- The rights to use the image. Describing a picture is fine for learning; publishing a near-copy of someone's protected artwork is not.
How to get the prompt behind an image, step by step
Open the Describe Kit and upload the image
In the Promly Studio pick Describe and drop in the picture. One image is all it takes — there is nothing to configure first.
Read the prompt it gives you back
Promly returns a written prompt describing the image: what is in it, how it is shot or drawn, the lighting, the colour, the style. This is the interesting part on its own — it shows you which words are doing the work.
Swap the subject, keep the style
Take the prompt and change only the subject: keep the lighting and medium description, replace "a red bicycle" with your product, your character, your pet. Now you have that look applied to your own thing.
Run it in whichever Kit fits
Paste the edited prompt into the Kit that matches what you're making. For a person, use People; for a scene, Stage; to compare how different models read the same prompt, use Direct.
Describe or Fusion?
They solve the same wish in different ways. Describe gives you the words, which you can edit, keep, reuse and learn from. Fusion skips the words entirely and applies a style directly to your subject — faster when you just want the result, less useful when you want to understand or adapt it.
Use Describe when the look is worth keeping. Use Fusion when you want the picture now.
A note on style and copying
A prompt describing a style is not a copy of an artwork, and styles themselves are not owned. Reproducing a specific protected image closely, or passing work off as someone else's, is a different matter — and it is worth staying on the right side of it. Describing an image to learn from it, or to carry a general look onto your own subject, is the use this Kit is built for.
FAQ
Quick answers
What does the Describe Kit actually return?
A written, model-ready prompt describing the uploaded image — subject, composition, lighting, colour and medium — in the form an image model responds to, so you can paste it into another Kit and edit it.
Is the Describe Kit free?
No. Describe is available on paid accounts — any Promly plan, or a one-off Pixel pack. It is not included in the free tier.
Can I use it on a photograph, not just AI art?
Yes. Photographs, illustrations and screenshots all work. The Kit describes what it sees, whatever made the image.
Can I recreate someone else's image with it?
You can learn how a look is built and carry that general style onto your own subject. Reproducing a specific protected artwork closely, or presenting it as your own, is not something we'd recommend.
What do I do with the prompt once I have it?
Swap the subject and keep the style words, then run it in whichever Kit fits — People for a person, Stage for a scene, or Direct to see how several models read the same prompt.
Find out how that image was made
Upload a picture you like and get the prompt behind it — then make it yours. Available on any paid plan or Pixel pack.
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