The best prompts for OpenAI’s gpt-image-2, released April 21, 2026. Everything 2.0 unlocks that 1.5 could not deliver: infographics, multi-panel manga, real typography in posters, storyboards with consistent characters.
Minimalist landscape infographic titled 'The Water Cycle' with six labelled stages: Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Collection, Transpiration, Runoff. Use sans-serif typography (Inter), pastel palette of sky blue, sand, and moss green, small directional arrows between stages, subtle stylised sun and clouds in the header, bottom-right footer reading 'Source: NASA Earth Observatory'. 4:3, high-fidelity, print-ready at 2K.
A2 landscape data-visualisation poster titled 'AI Model Comparison – Benchmarks 2026'. Four horizontal bar charts stacked vertically: GPQA, SWE-bench Verified, MMLU, HumanEval. Each chart compares six models (GPT-5, Claude 4.5 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Llama 4, Mistral Large, DeepSeek R1) with realistic percentages between 45% and 95%, numbers written inside the bars. Dark slate background, Inter typography, legend bottom-left, small footnotes citing benchmark dates.
Editorial infographic titled 'The Four Stages of Sleep'. Split into four vertical columns for N1, N2, N3, and REM. Each column contains a small brainwave line chart, a duration range (e.g. '45–55%' for N2), and three bullet points describing what happens physiologically. Warm navy background with a dusty peach accent, serif headline in IBM Plex Serif, body text in Inter. Top-right circular badge reading 'Reviewed by Sleep Foundation'.
Horizontal timeline infographic: 'Anthropic Funding Rounds 2021–2026'. Seven milestones on a curved line, each with a year, round name (Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Series D, Series E, Series F), amount raised in USD, and 2–3 fictional investor names in small caps. Clean white background, coral accent colour, Graphik font. Micro-footer with 'Illustrative data, not actual figures'.
Earthy-green infographic poster titled 'Compost in 7 Steps'. Seven numbered circular steps connected by a dotted spiral, each with a tiny line icon (apple core, dry leaves, watering can, thermometer, shovel, clock, flowerpot) and a one-line instruction. Include a central callout box showing '3:1 Brown to Green ratio'. Recycled-paper texture background, hand-lettered serif headline.
Photorealistic iPhone 15 Pro home screen screenshot of a fictional banking app 'Finstar'. Top shows greeting 'Good morning, Alex', balance €8,432.67 in large rounded sans. Four recent transactions listed with merchant name, category icon, and amount: 'Starbucks –€5.40', 'Salary +€3,200.00', 'Uber –€18.20', 'Netflix –€15.99'. Bottom tab bar with five labelled icons: Home, Cards, Pay, Insights, Profile. iOS 18 design language, subtle shadows, crisp typography, status bar visible.
High-fidelity browser screenshot of a fictional SaaS analytics app 'Metricly'. Left sidebar with nine icons and labels (Overview, Traffic, Conversions, Revenue, Funnels, Segments, Reports, Integrations, Settings). Main area shows three KPI cards at the top ('Monthly Active Users 12,482 ↑8%', 'Revenue $48,210 ↑14%', 'Churn 1.8% ↓0.3%'), a combined line+bar chart titled 'Signups vs Revenue (Last 30 Days)', and a table with five rows of campaign data underneath. Light theme, Inter typography, emerald-and-slate palette.
Photorealistic 4:3 screenshot of a 1980s green-phosphor CRT terminal running a fictional OS called 'ORION-7'. Top of screen shows boot log with version numbers, memory checks, and driver initialisations. Below is a small ASCII art logo of a planet and a ready prompt 'ORION> _'. Include a faint scanline effect, slight barrel distortion at the edges, and subtle phosphor bloom around bright pixels. All text readable and consistent.
Clean vector-style subway map for fictional 'Nova City Metro' with six colour-coded lines (Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Purple, Orange), 42 named stations, transfer markers as white circles with black rings, airport icon at one terminus, ferry icon at another. Compass rose top-right, legend bottom-left with line names and colours, scale bar. Japanese-style geometric cartography, no text leaks, station names legible.
Clean technical flowchart 'Modern Data Stack – Reference Architecture'. Left to right: three data sources (Stripe, Postgres, Salesforce), arrows into an ingest layer (labelled 'Fivetran / Airbyte'), into a lakehouse (labelled 'Snowflake + Iceberg'), into a transform layer ('dbt Core'), branching into BI ('Metabase / Tableau') and reverse-ETL ('Hightouch'). All boxes rounded rectangles with small monochrome icons, Inter font, off-white background, arrows with subtle shadow.
Detailed topographic hiking map of a fictional alpine region 'Eisenalm Massif'. Contour lines in every 20 metres, three named summits (Rotkogel 2,847m, Silberspitz 2,612m, Falkenhorn 2,398m), two mountain huts marked with red triangles, a dashed trail network with distance markers, a river with tributaries, scale bar bottom-right 1:25,000, north arrow top-right. Classic ÖK colour palette, sans-serif German labels.
Clean organisation chart titled 'Kite Labs – Team Structure 2026'. CEO at the top, three VPs reporting (Engineering, Product, Go-to-Market), each with 3–5 direct reports underneath, total 18 nodes. Every node shows a small circular avatar (illustrated, diverse), full name, and role title. Teams colour-coded by division. Light background, subtle connector lines, consistent spacing.
Editorial dashboard poster titled 'Global Climate Dashboard 1960–2025'. Four charts: (1) line chart of global mean temperature anomaly, (2) heatmap calendar of warmest years, (3) stacked area chart of CO2 emissions by sector, (4) small multiples of arctic sea-ice extent. Real-looking but illustrative data points, consistent teal/crimson palette, source footnote 'Illustrative values, inspired by NOAA data', Inter typography.
Back-to-back horizontal bar chart titled 'Germany – Population Pyramid 2025 vs 2050 (projected)'. Age cohorts in 5-year brackets from 0–4 up to 100+, males on the left in steel blue, females on the right in dusty rose. 2025 bars solid, 2050 projection drawn as outlined bars overlayed. X-axis in millions, y-axis labelled with age brackets, subtle gridlines, German labels, small footnote 'Source: Destatis, Szenario G2L2W1 (illustrative)'.
Sankey diagram 'Global Coffee Flows 2025'. Left nodes: six producer countries (Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Honduras). Right nodes: five consumer regions (EU, USA, Japan, Middle East, Rest of World). Flows colour-coded by producer, widths proportional to illustrative volumes, labels on each flow showing tonnes in thousands, total sum in the title. Warm beige background, brown accent palette.
Medical textbook illustration of the human heart, anterior view, cross-section. Twelve precise labels with fine leader lines pointing to: Aorta, Vena cava superior, Vena cava inferior, Arteria pulmonalis, Atrium dextrum, Atrium sinistrum, Ventriculus dexter, Ventriculus sinister, Valva mitralis, Valva tricuspidalis, Septum interventriculare, Myocardium. Soft gouache shading, muted reds and pinks, ivory paper background, classical serif anatomical typography.
Scientific diagram of a caffeine molecule, ball-and-stick model with colour-coded atoms (grey for carbon, white for hydrogen, blue for nitrogen, red for oxygen). Below the model: molecular formula 'C₈H₁₀N₄O₂', molar mass '194.19 g/mol', IUPAC name '1,3,7-Trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6(3H,7H)-dione'. Clean white background with subtle grid, monospace scientific captions, small bond-angle labels.
Astronomy poster 'The Solar System at a Glance'. Eight planets (Mercury to Neptune) drawn to relative size on a horizontal line, each annotated with mass (kg, scientific notation), radius (km), orbital period (days or years), and mean surface temperature (°C). Small data card under each planet, dwarf planet Pluto included as an inset box. Deep-space gradient background, Helvetica Neue typography, subtle constellation lines in the upper corners.
Japanese izakaya menu board, chalk-on-slate style, 12 dishes written naturally with a mix of kanji and hiragana: 餃子 ¥580, 焼き鳥 ¥380, 枝豆 ¥420, 唐揚げ ¥650, 鯖の塩焼き ¥780, 刺身盛り合わせ ¥1,580, 厚揚げ豆腐 ¥480, おにぎり ¥320, 冷奴 ¥380, たこ焼き ¥550, レモンサワー ¥450, 生ビール ¥580. Warm amber backlight behind the board, dark wooden frame, subtle steam rising from the top. Characters must be legible and calligraphic.
Vibrant K-pop music festival poster, fully Korean Hangul typography. Title: 한여름 밤의 축제 (Festival of a Midsummer Night). Date: 2026년 7월 15일-17일. Eight fictional band names in varied K-pop type styles, stacked in the centre. Venue: 서울 월드컵경기장. Neon magenta and electric cyan gradient, subtle cherry-blossom sparkles, bottom-right QR code placeholder, sponsor-strip at the bottom with Hangul corporate names.
Art-print poster featuring a line of classical Arabic poetry in Dīwānī script: الصبر مفتاح الفرج ('Patience is the key to relief'). The Arabic is centred and large, drawn with flowing gold brush strokes on a deep indigo background. Below, in small Latin type: English transliteration and translation. Thin geometric Islamic border ornament at top and bottom. Clean, museum-quality composition, centred.
Retro Bollywood film poster. Title in large Devanagari script: चाँदनी रात (Chandni Raat). Below, in smaller Latin type: 'A Love Story Under The Monsoon'. Two lead characters, illustrated in saturated painterly style, leaning toward each other. Rain-soaked Mumbai skyline in the background, gold filigree border, stars under the title, release date in Devanagari numerals: 15 अगस्त 2026. Tagline in Hindi along the bottom.
Presentation title slide, 16:9 aspect ratio. Company name 'Lumen Robotics' in large Neue Haas Grotesk Display bold, tagline 'Warehouse automation that thinks' in smaller light weight beneath. Small stylised line-art logo of an articulated robotic arm top-left, date 'Seed Round – Q2 2026' bottom-right, footer with website 'lumen-robotics.ai'. White background, deep charcoal type, 2mm hairline frame around the slide.
Corporate presentation slide titled '2026 Product Roadmap'. Four horizontal swim-lanes representing Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 of 2026. Each lane contains three initiative cards with a short title, owner icon, and a progress bar. Cards colour-coded by workstream (Platform, Growth, Enterprise). Subtle gridlines, Inter typography, deep navy headline, corporate logo bottom-right. Readable at both conference-room size and thumbnail.
Board-meeting slide titled 'FY2025 Financial Summary'. Left half: three KPI cards ('ARR $18.4M ↑42%', 'Gross Margin 78% ↑3pp', 'Net Retention 126% ↑8pp'). Right half: quarterly revenue bar chart Q1–Q4 with trend line. Footer note 'Unaudited, management figures'. Muted slate-and-gold palette, Inter typography, corporate logomark top-left.
Minimalist keynote closing slide, 16:9 black background. Large centred quote in thin serif: 'The best interfaces disappear – they just work.' Attribution line below: '— Finn Hillebrandt, Gradually AI'. Small speaker handle '@finnhillebrandt' in dim grey bottom-right, event hashtag '#AIConf2026' bottom-left, nothing else on the slide.
Hand-lettered protest flyer 'Klima-Marsch Berlin – 20. September 2026'. Bold painterly headline, bullet list with start point 'Brandenburger Tor, 13:00 Uhr', end point 'Bundestag, 16:00 Uhr', and route map drawn as a simple illustrated line. Four speaker names and credentials. Organiser logos across the bottom, QR placeholder for livestream. Recycled-paper texture, three-colour risograph look (orange, forest, black).
High-fashion magazine cover, fictional title 'AURA' in the masthead position, serif display bold. Cover star: editorial portrait of a model in a crimson trench coat, neutral studio background. Coverlines around the subject: 'The Return of Tailoring', 'Inside Copenhagen Fashion Week', 'Why Quiet Luxury Isn’t Quiet Anymore'. Issue number 'Vol. 214 – May 2026', barcode and price '€8,90' bottom-left, subscription URL tiny along the spine.
Digital tech magazine cover, masthead 'BIT & BYTE' in modern monospace. Headline: 'The Agentic Shift – 12 AI Agents That Are Rewriting Software'. Sub-deck: 'A special issue on real-world autonomy – pages 24 to 58'. Hero: abstract data-viz graphic of concentric rings with node labels. Bottom strip with three smaller story teasers, issue 'Q2 2026'. Near-black background, electric-lime accent, clean grid.
Hardcover fantasy novel mockup. Title: 'THE LANTERN BEARER' in ornate gold-foil serif. Author: 'by E. S. Caldwell'. Cover illustration: a lone figure silhouetted on a cliff holding a glowing lantern against a blue-black storm sky. Critic blurb at the top: '“An instant classic” — The Guardian'. Series line at the bottom: 'Book One of the Ember Chronicles'. Publisher logo spine-bottom, clean textured matte finish.
Hardcover university textbook cover, fictional title 'Introduction to Quantum Information Theory'. Edition line: '5th Edition, Revised'. Two authors: 'R. Okafor · M. Valente'. Publisher brand 'Northbridge Academic Press' at the bottom. Cover illustration: subtle wireframe Bloch sphere with a Bloch vector labelled |ψ⟩. Back cover visible on the right side with blurb text, ISBN '978-1-04827-112-9', price '£72,00', barcode bottom-right.
French bistro chalkboard menu, hand-lettered. Title 'Chez Margot – Menu du Jour'. Four sections: Entrées (3 dishes), Plats (4 dishes including 'Plat du jour – Blanquette de Veau 18,50 €'), Fromages (assortiment 9,00 €), Desserts (4 items). Each item has a one-line description and a price in euros. Small illustrated baguette in the top corner. Warm cafe lighting on the board.
Airport wayfinding sign, white-on-charcoal panel, Frutiger-style sans-serif. Six destinations stacked with a white arrow and a black-and-white pictogram: 'Gates A1–A24 / Flugsteige A1–A24 / ゲート A1–A24', 'Baggage Claim / Gepäckausgabe / 手荷物受取', 'Customs / Zoll / 税関', 'Restrooms / WC / トイレ', 'Information / Information / 案内所', 'Exit / Ausgang / 出口'. All three scripts present and consistent, spacing matches ISO 7001 signage standards.
Modern specialty coffee shop menu board, three vertical columns: Espresso (8 drinks with sizes S/M/L and EUR prices), Filter (4 single-origin options with country of origin: Ethiopia Yirgacheffe, Kenya Nyeri, Colombia Huila, Guatemala Antigua), Add-ons (oat, almond, soy milk; 5 syrups). Minimalist, off-white warm background, muted green accents, Inter typography, small illustrated coffee cherry top-right.
Etched-glass window sign showing opening hours for 'Atelier Mira – Buchbinderei Wien'. Days listed in German: Montag–Freitag 10:00–18:30, Samstag 10:00–15:00, Sonntag geschlossen. A small footnote 'An Feiertagen geschlossen'. Phone number and address at the bottom. Photographed at 35mm, reflections of a passing cyclist subtly visible in the glass, warm daylight.
6-panel seinen manga in gritty noir style, heavy blacks, minimal screentone, rain everywhere. Same detective throughout: late 40s, scarred right brow, long dark coat, smoking. Panel 1: him at a rainy Shinjuku crossing. Panel 2: he enters a jazz bar, neon '薔薇' (Rose) sign overhead. Panel 3: an informant whispers across a table. Panel 4: close-up of a photograph of a missing girl. Panel 5: he walks out into the rain, fists clenched. Panel 6: silhouette on a rooftop, gun drawn, cityscape beneath.
4-panel kodomo (children's) manga, round chibi art style, bright pastel colours. Same two characters: a five-year-old boy named Ren and his pudgy green dragon friend, Mochi. Panel 1: Ren finds Mochi hiding in a giant tea cup. Panel 2: they share a strawberry cake, crumbs flying. Panel 3: Mochi tries to fly, wobbles sideways. Panel 4: they nap together, surrounded by plush toys. Speech bubbles in simple hiragana, e.g. もっちー！ (Mochi!).
3-panel isekai manga, dramatic action style. Same protagonist: a 30-year-old office worker in a grey suit with glasses. Panel 1: she trips on a Tokyo staircase, briefcase in mid-air, glowing runes around her feet. Panel 2: she falls through a swirling portal, suit torn, shocked expression, dramatic SFX onomatopoeia ヒュッ. Panel 3: she lands in a medieval marketplace with dwarves, elves, and floating runes, villagers staring. Sharp ink linework, selective halftone shading.
6-frame storyboard for a 30-second coffee commercial, cinematic 16:9 frames. Same barista across all frames: brown hair in a bun, green apron, round glasses, freckles. Frame 1: she pulls an espresso shot in a sunlit cafe. Frame 2: extreme close-up of crema forming. Frame 3: steam wand in milk jug, micro-foam building. Frame 4: latte-art tulip poured into a ceramic cup. Frame 5: she hands the cup to a smiling customer at the counter. Frame 6: end card with logo 'Roast & Co.' and tagline 'Brewed Slowly. Sipped Happily.'
5-frame black-and-white storyboard for the opening of a short film titled 'Low Tide'. Same protagonist throughout: an old fisherman in a weathered yellow coat. Frame 1: wide shot of a foggy coastal village at dawn. Frame 2: fisherman walks down to the harbour, boots on wet cobblestones. Frame 3: close-up of his hands untying a rope. Frame 4: his boat drifts out to sea. Frame 5: fade to title card with 'LOW TIDE – a film by Inga Kallio' in hand-drawn serif.
8-frame music video storyboard in saturated dreamcore style. Same singer across all frames: long silver hair, yellow raincoat. Frame 1: she walks through an empty subway tunnel. Frame 2: tunnel floods with pink water. Frame 3: she swims upward through jellyfish-filled water. Frame 4: surfaces in a mirrored forest. Frame 5: multiplies into four reflections of herself. Frame 6: they dance in a circle. Frame 7: she steps through a mirror. Frame 8: returns to the subway, smiling. Dreamy, continuous colour-grade across all frames.
4-panel black-ink stick-figure comic in the style of xkcd. Theme: 'The dangers of premature optimization'. Panel 1: a developer starts a project. Panel 2: he immediately starts benchmarking a single for-loop. Panel 3: six months later, he is still tweaking the loop, the rest of the project is untouched. Panel 4: a manager walks in holding a burning server. Handwritten captions under each panel, title label 'Premature Optimization' at the top. White background, thin black line weight.
Single-panel black-and-white cartoon in the classic New Yorker style. Scene: a small child at a kitchen table, laptop open, angrily typing. A golden retriever sits across from him, paw extended onto the table. Caption underneath: '“I don’t care if the meeting ran long. You said walk at three.”'. Fine crosshatch shading, hand-lettered caption, subtle kitchen details in the background.
Expression sheet for a brand mascot named 'Kibbie', a small round orange fox with cream underbelly, big blue eyes, and a tiny mint-green scarf. Six consistent expressions on a single sheet, labelled underneath each: Happy, Surprised, Sleepy, Angry, Thinking, Waving. Same proportions, same scarf, same colour palette, thin black outline, flat vector style.
Concept-art character turnaround, four views of the same character: front, side, three-quarter back, back. Cyberpunk hacker, androgynous, neon-violet hair buzzed on one side, augmented right arm in chrome and brushed gunmetal, black techwear jacket with orange piping, utility harness with five pouches, combat boots. Same props in every view. Grey studio backdrop, even lighting. Include a small panel at the bottom with close-ups of the augmented arm, harness buckle, and boot tread.
Four brand-identity mockups for a specialty coffee shop 'Ember & Oat'. Mockup 1: the logo on a clean white wall, wordmark in a warm terracotta with small coffee-bean icon above. Mockup 2: stack of matte-black business cards with gold-foil logo and contact details. Mockup 3: paper takeaway cup with white sleeve, the same logo applied. Mockup 4: kraft-paper coffee bag with origin label reading 'Ethiopia – Yirgacheffe – 250g'. Keep colour palette, typography, and logo lockup identical across all four mockups.
Museum-quality illustration of a reconstructed Egyptian papyrus fragment, New Kingdom period. Horizontal strip with five columns of hieroglyphs reading right-to-left, an Eye of Horus, a seated scribe figure, a cartouche enclosing a pharaoh's name. Warm papyrus background with torn fibrous edges, faint stains, pigments in red, black, and ochre. Small museum-label caption at the bottom: 'Fragment from Thebes, c. 1320 BCE (reconstruction)'.
Illuminated manuscript page in the style of 14th-century Flemish scriptoria. Vellum page with two columns of neat black Textura-quadrata Latin script beginning 'In principio creavit Deus caelum et terram'. A large gold-and-blue initial 'I' with interlace decoration. In the margin, a comic rabbit riding a dog while jousting a knight (drôlerie). Gilt accents, aged vellum, faint cockling along the edges.