# ChatGPT Images 2.5 Prompt Guide & Library

> An independent educational guide and curated prompt library for creating, editing, and refining images with ChatGPT Images 2.5.

## Overview

- **Project Title**: ChatGPT Images 2.5 Prompt Guide & Library
- **Canonical URL**: https://chatgpt-images-prompts.ivvideo.com/
- **Publisher**: Impactful Visuals (https://ivvideo.com/)
- **Target Platform**: ChatGPT Images 2.5 (everyday user workflows inside ChatGPT)
- **Format**: Single-page technical handbook with client-side searchable prompt library

## Scope & Purpose

This knowledge base provides comprehensive instructional material on generating and iteratively editing images using ChatGPT Images 2.5. It covers prompt composition, reference images, inpainting (Select tool), image comments, sketch integration, precise typography instructions, camera optics, lighting environments, and character/product consistency.

Additionally, the site serves a curated library of ready-to-copy image prompt examples structured across major visual disciplines.

## Core Guide Sections

1. **ChatGPT Images 2.5 Fundamentals**: Core capabilities, natural language instruction model, differences between keyword soups and coherent director notes.
2. **Interface & Platform Availability**:
   - Web & Desktop: Direct chat prompting, image upload, Select brush tool (inpainting), aspect ratio picker.
   - Mobile: Sketch canvas input and pinned image comments (currently mobile-first).
   - Work Mode note: Template features are not available in Work mode.
3. **Prompt Anatomy**: 18-point structural framework spanning Subject, Action/Pose, Setting, Composition, Lighting, Lenses, Color, Mood, Text, and Constraints.
4. **References & Identity Preservation**: Uploading reference images, identity guidance, preserving facial structure, style transfer, and role assignment for multi-image inputs.
5. **Image Editing & Iterative Inpainting**: Precise natural language phrasing ("Change only X, keep everything else unchanged"), background replacement, and localized refinement with the Select tool.
6. **Camera & Composition**: Shot sizes (Extreme Close-Up to Extreme Wide Shot), angles, lenses (14mm to 135mm, macro), and explaining the physical relationship between camera distance and perspective.
7. **Lighting & Atmosphere**: 16 lighting environments including soft daylight, golden hour, direct flash, rim lighting, low-key noir, volumetric haze, and neon.
8. **Product Photography & Brand Consistency**: Geometry preservation, packaging, logos, labels, surface finishes, and repeatable commercial setups.
9. **Text & Typography**: Quoted text syntax (`render the text "..." exactly once`), typography hierarchy, line breaks, and eliminating unwanted extraneous lettering.
10. **Posters, Advertising & Layouts**: Negative space allocation for copy, aspect ratios (1:1, 16:9, 9:16), and transparent backgrounds with clean alpha edges.
11. **Consistency & Multi-Shot Workflows**: Developing characters across sequential scenes and anchoring core attributes.
12. **Common Mistakes & Troubleshooting**: 10 anti-patterns analyzed via Problem, Why it causes trouble, and Better approach.
13. **Searchable Prompt Library**: Client-side multi-field weighted search, category filters, reference image toggle, and copy tools.
14. **FAQ**: Clear answers on commercial use, feature availability, and prompt crafting.

## Data Endpoints

- Library Dataset: https://chatgpt-images-prompts.ivvideo.com/data/prompts.json
- Statistical Summary: https://chatgpt-images-prompts.ivvideo.com/data/stats.json
- Site Configuration: https://chatgpt-images-prompts.ivvideo.com/data/site-config.json

## Dataset Schema

Each entry in `/data/prompts.json` contains:
- `id` (string): Unique identifier (e.g., `cg2-0001`)
- `title` (string): Descriptive title
- `category` (string): Primary visual category
- `subcategory` (string): Specific thematic area
- `tags` (array of strings): Searchable keywords and descriptors
- `prompt` (string): Full executable prompt text tailored for ChatGPT Images 2.5
- `summary` (string): Concise description of what the prompt produces
- `requiresReference` (boolean): Indicates whether the prompt requires an uploaded source/reference image
- `techniques` (array of strings): Applied optical, lighting, or compositional techniques

## Commercial Attribution

Created by Impactful Visuals (https://ivvideo.com/), a creative production studio specializing in cinematic AI advertising, branded visuals, and commercial video combining leading public AI platforms with proprietary local ComfyUI pipelines.