ImagenOur best image generation model yet, engineered for creativity Try in Gemini Try in Whisk Pause video Play video Photorealistic images, sharper clarity, improved spelling and typography. Bring your imagination to life faster than ever before. Capabilities Benchmarks Safety & Responsibility Showcase Try Imagen Photo-realistic Create realistic images of landscapes, plants, people and animals with true-to-life details. Prompt: Produce a stunning, award-winning close-up of a chameleon blending into a background of vibrant, textured leaves, its eye swivelled to look directly at the camera. The intricate texture of its skin changing colour is the focus (visceral adaptation). Abstract dappled light filters through the leaves. Inspired by wildlife macro photography and camouflage patterns. + - Prompt: Create a cinematic, photorealistic medium shot capturing the nostalgic warmth of a late 90s indie film. The focus is a young woman with brightly dyed pink hair (slightly faded) and freckled skin, looking directly and intently into the camera lens with a hopeful yet slightly uncertain smile. She wears an oversized, vintage band t-shirt (slightly worn) over a long-sleeved striped top and simple silver stud earrings. The lighting is soft, golden hour sunlight streaming through a slightly dusty window, creating lens flare and illuminating dust motes in the air. The background shows a blurred, cluttered bedroom with posters on the wall and fairy lights, rendered with a shallow depth of field. Natural film grain, a warm, slightly muted color palette, and sharp focus on her expressive eyes enhance the intimate, authentic feel + - Prompt: Framed in a sophisticated medium shot, the white-throated kingfisher stretches its magnificent wings against the backdrop of a serene lake environment at perhaps dawn or dusk. The low angle of the warm light saturates the bird's plumage, making the turquoise back and chestnut belly glow intensely against the cooler, perhaps slightly misty, tones of the lake water and distant shoreline. Water drips elegantly from the tips of its widely spread feathers, catching the golden light as distinct, sparkling trails falling towards the water's surface. The composition might include subtle environmental details in the soft-focus background – the silhouettes of reeds, the reflection of the colorful sky on the water – adding depth and atmosphere. The focus remains firmly on the kingfisher, its striking colors amplified by the specific light conditions, creating a cinematic and aesthetically pleasing image that balances the subject's beauty with the evocative mood of the surrounding landscape. + - Prompt: This scene unfolds within an organically designed interior space, evocative of being inside a giant, living structure. The walls and ceiling are composed of smooth, interconnected pod-like or cellular forms, eschewing sharp angles for soft curves. These structures emit a gentle, internal glow, bathing the space in a soft, bioluminescent light. Through large, curved openings in these pod walls, glimpses of an exterior landscape shrouded in mist and fog at dusk are visible. Standing within this softly lit, organic environment is a figure with dark, slicked-back hair, noticeable freckles dusting her radiant skin, and lips colored in a deep burgundy. She is adorned in a diaphanous garment of sheer, iridescent fabric that shifts between pale pink and white hues, catching the subtle bioluminescent glow beautifully. While the overall architecture is soft and rounded, accents of hard, jagged metallic sculptures, reminiscent of polished chrome shards, are integrated into the space – perhaps as seating or purely decorative elements, providing a stark textural contrast to the smooth walls and the figure's ethereal attire. The atmosphere is serene and otherworldly, merging futuristic organic design, soft internal lighting, delicate fashion, and hints of a misty exterior world. + - Prompt: An extreme close-up shot plunges into a beautiful field overflowing with abundant frosted wildflowers. Innumerable petals and stems, vibrant with underlying hues of deep pinks, purples, and yellows, are delicately glazed with a layer of sparkling ice crystals. The frost catches the crisp morning light, creating a shimmering effect over the vivid colors beneath. The razor-thin depth of field renders only the nearest blossoms in hyper-sharp detail, revealing the intricate crystalline structures against the bright pigments, while the dense field behind melts into a dazzling, soft-focus tapestry of frosted color and light. This view captures the magical contrast between the icy coating and the persistent vibrancy of the flowers, evoking a sense of resilient beauty in the cold dawn. + - Prompt: Create a photorealistic close-up portrait capturing the candid, high-energy aesthetic of 35mm film photography with noticeable grain and harsh direct on-camera flash lighting. The main subject is a flamboyant performer with tanned, shiny skin, looking directly into the camera with wide, engaging eyes. Their lips are pursed in a playful pout or kiss face directed forward. They wear dramatic, frosted light blue/silver eyeshadow and heavy black eyeliner. An extravagant, spiky silver/rhinestone headdress adorned with large clear jewels, dangling elements, and tall green leaves/feathers dominates the upper frame. Blonde shoulder-length hair frames the face. They wear a matching thick rhinestone choker and long, cascading star-shaped rhinestone earrings. The revealing costume features rhinestone straps and star-shaped appliqués across the chest and shoulders. The dimly lit background serves as context, showing a man in a light collared shirt smiling slightly (partially blurred) behind the subject to the right, against a dark blue/purple backdrop suggesting a party or event. Specular highlights glitter intensely off the abundant rhinestones and skin due to the direct flash. Close-up, slightly low angle, focusing on the subject's direct gaze and vibrant, performative energy within the environment. + - Prompt: A close-up captures the sheer, unadulterated joy of a Golden Retriever, its head thrust eagerly out the passenger-side window of a moving pickup truck cruising down a scenic mountainous highway. The frame is filled with the dog's blissful expression: mouth open in a wide, happy pant, long pink tongue lolling out and catching the wind, flapping slightly. Its eyes are bright and slightly squinted against the rush of air, radiating pure delight. Golden fur ripples and streams back from its face, catching the bright sunlight which highlights the rich tones of its coat against the darker interior of the truck cab just visible at the edge of the frame. Its floppy ears are blown back dynamically by the wind, adding to the sense of exhilarating motion. Drool might glisten slightly on its jowls, a testament to its unrestrained happiness. The background outside the window is a dynamic motion blur of out-of-focus greens and greys from the passing mountain slopes, perhaps interspersed with patches of bright blue sky, effectively conveying the speed and the open-air freedom the dog is clearly savoring. The shot freezes a perfect moment of sensory delight and canine exuberance on the open road. + - Prompt: Cinematic shot using a stabilized drone flying dynamically alongside a pod of immense baleen whales as they breach spectacularly in deep offshore waters. The camera maintains a close, dramatic perspective as these colossal creatures launch themselves skyward from the dark blue ocean, creating enormous splashes and showering cascades of water droplets that catch the sunlight. In the background, misty, fjord-like coastlines with dense coniferous forests provide context. The focus expertly tracks the whales, capturing their surprising agility, immense power, and inherent grace. The color palette features the deep blues and greens of the ocean, the brilliant white spray, the dark grey skin of the whales, and the muted tones of the distant wild coastline, conveying the thrilling magnificence of marine megafauna. + - Prompt: Bleak, isolating cinematic wide shot capturing an arctic research outpost battling a severe nighttime blizzard. Photorealistic rendering emphasizing extreme weather and isolation. The small, modular outpost, partially buried in snowdrifts, sits alone in a vast, windswept expanse of white under a dark, starless sky. Powerful winds visibly drive curtains of thick, volumetric snow horizontally across the scene, drastically reducing visibility. The only sign of life is a single window glowing with warm, inviting light, contrasting starkly with the overwhelming cold blues and whites of the exterior storm. Perhaps the faint beam of a searchlight cuts weakly through the blizzard from atop the structure. Snow textures are incredibly detailed, showing accumulation, drifts, and the powdery chaos of the blizzard. Ice crusts surfaces exposed to the wind. Deep depth of field keeps the outpost relatively sharp while conveying the immense, oppressive scale of the surrounding storm-lashed landscape. The composition emphasizes the outpost's vulnerability and containment against the raw, hostile power of nature. The visual story speaks of isolation, endurance, the precariousness of human presence in extreme environments, and the psychological pressure of confinement. + - Prompt: Hyperrealistic digital food photograph creating a vibrant pattern from root vegetables. The mood is fresh, crisp, graphically bold, and slightly rustic. A collection of small, round, fresh radishes, complete with their long, leafy green tops partially visible, are arranged in a repeating, overlapping pattern viewed directly from above (flat lay). The vibrant pinkish-red globes of the radishes dominate the composition, punctuated by the bright green leaves extending outwards. They lie on a clean, seamless, bright white background. Hard, direct overhead lighting casts distinct, dark shadows beneath each radish globe and leaf, creating depth and emphasizing their three-dimensional forms despite the flat perspective. Every element is tack sharp, showcasing the smooth, slightly damp skin of the radish globes, the subtle texture and veining of the green leaves, and tiny clinging water droplets suggesting freshness. Fine white rootlets are visible on some. Deep depth of field ensures the entire pattern across the frame is in sharp focus. The color palette is a high-contrast mix of intense radish-red/pink and vibrant leaf-green against the stark white background. The composition feels simultaneously organic due to the natural forms and highly structured due to the repeating pattern, celebrating the graphic potential of simple produce. + - Fine details Capture extreme close-ups with richer colors, textures and gradients — for images that look like they can be touched. Prompt: Extreme macro photograph capturing the breathtaking iridescence of a Blue Morpho butterfly wing, emphasizing abstract beauty and intricate structural marvel. Very shallow depth of field isolates a mesmerizing pattern of overlapping scales, creating a painterly effect. Soft yet distinctly directional lighting, angled precisely, maximizes the shimmering structural color; watch vibrant blues shift dramatically to electric cyan and hints of deep violet along the delicately serrated scale edges, revealing the physics of light at play. The background is a smoothly blurred gradient of soft greens and muted browns, expertly rendered bokeh suggesting distant, out-of-focus foliage, pushing the wing forward. Composition strongly highlights the precise diagonal rows of tiny, intricate scales, forming an almost geometric, deeply textural artistic pattern that fills the frame. Textures are paramount: the slightly powdery yet precisely structured surface of each scale rendered with hyperrealistic clarity, contrasting with the utter smoothness of the bokeh. The color palette is dominated by intense, shifting metallic blues, strongly contrasted against the muted background, enhancing visual depth and the wing's ethereal, almost liquid luminous quality. A captivating study in natural pattern, microscopic architecture, and the phenomena of light itself. + - Prompt: This close-up captures the luxurious detail of a garment's sleeve meeting a delicately posed hand. The sleeve, likely from a high-fashion gown or jacket, is crafted from a rich, possibly velvet or heavy satin fabric in a deep jewel tone like emerald green or sapphire blue. Intricately embroidered onto the fabric is a dense pattern of shimmering gold thread, forming baroque scrolls or perhaps stylized floral motifs. Scattered amongst the embroidery are meticulously hand-sewn embellishments: iridescent beads catching the light with subtle rainbow hues, tiny faceted crystals sparkling like diamonds, and perhaps even small, lustrous faux pearls adding dimension. The fabric gathers slightly near the wrist, creating soft folds. Resting elegantly against this opulent backdrop is a hand with flawless, pale skin. The long, almond-shaped nails are painted in a complementary dark, glossy lacquer, perhaps a deep burgundy or black. A single, statement piece of jewelry adorns the hand – a large cocktail ring featuring a prominent, unusually cut gemstone (like smoky quartz or an uncut sapphire) set in an antique-style gold or blackened silver setting on the index or ring finger. The lighting is soft yet directional, highlighting the texture of the fabric, the sparkle of the embellishments, and the smooth contours of the hand and nails, creating an image of pure, tactile luxury and craftsmanship. + - Prompt: The image features an ethereal woman enveloped in a sculptural gown constructed from countless layers of Twilight Mauve silk organza. The sheer, lightweight fabric is manipulated into voluminous ruffles, delicate pleats, and flowing drapes, creating a dreamy and almost cloud-like silhouette. The translucency of the organza allows light to filter through the layers, creating subtle shifts in tone and depth within the Twilight Mauve palette. The bodice is a softly structured core from which the layers of organza billow and cascade. Her head is adorned with a flowing headpiece made from the same Twilight Mauve organza. Long, wide strips of the fabric are artfully arranged to drape around her head and shoulders, creating a soft and airy halo effect that echoes the movement of the dress. The lightness of the organza gives the headpiece a sense of weightlessness. The woman's light hair is styled loosely, allowing it to blend with the ethereal quality of the fabric. The backdrop is an even paler shade of Twilight Mauve, creating a seamless and atmospheric effect. The lighting is soft and luminous, highlighting the delicate texture and translucent nature of the organza, conveying a sense of lightness and otherworldly beauty. + - Prompt: Stunning close-up macro photograph of a Betta (Siamese Fighting Fish) scale pattern, showcasing the intense, shifting metallic iridescence and intricate scale edges, evoking living jewelry and aquatic splendor. Very shallow depth of field isolates a small group of scales, rendering their overlapping structure and fine details with hyperrealistic clarity. Bright, slightly directional lighting strikes the scales at an angle that maximizes their iridescent quality, revealing stunning shifts from electric blue to deep teal, royal purple, or fiery red, depending on the Betta's coloration. The light catches the slightly raised edges of each scale, highlighting their delicate, fan-like texture. The composition focuses on the mesmerizing pattern and color play across the scales, filling the frame with texture and light. The background is softly blurred, hinting at adjacent scales or fins in an abstract wash of color. The color palette is incredibly vibrant, metallic, and shifting, capturing the Betta's signature opulence. Textures are smooth yet precisely defined by the scale edges and subtle surface variations. An awe-inspiring vision of aquatic beauty, revealing the breathtaking artistry woven into the fabric of a living creature. + - Prompt: A rolling countryside landscape knitted from yarn fields of green yellow and brown yarn stretch across undulating hills textured stitches like seed stitch or moss stitch create the appearance of crops and meadows low stone walls crocheted from grey yarn divide the fields patches of darker green yarn represent small wooded areas sheep knitted from fluffy white boucle yarn graze contentedly a winding country lane knitted in light brown yarn meanders through the scene perhaps with a tiny knitted tractor chugging along a farmhouse knitted in red yarn with a grey roof sits nestled among the hills smoke puffs made of white wispy yarn curl from its chimney the sky is a clear bright blue knit with a few fluffy white clouds the scene portrays idyllic rural life with the inherent warmth and charm of knitted materials making the countryside feel inviting cozy and touchable + - Prompt: Ultra-macro photograph capturing the mesmerizing, swirling iridescent colors on the surface film of a soap bubble just before popping, evoking ephemeral beauty and the pure physics of light. Extremely shallow depth of field focuses sharply on a small, curved section of the bubble's surface, revealing the chaotic, flowing patterns of color. Bright, multi-directional lighting reflects off the infinitesimally thin film, interfering to create stunning spectral colors – shimmering golds, electric pinks, vibrant greens, and deep blues – constantly swirling and shifting like liquid galaxies. The composition is abstract, filled with the curving lines and broad washes of intense, unpredictable color. The background is completely out of focus, perhaps a dark void or a soft bokeh, emphasizing the bubble film itself. The color palette is a dynamic explosion of highly saturated, iridescent hues across the spectrum. The texture appears impossibly thin, smooth, and fluid, with visible currents and eddies within the soapy film. A breathtaking snapshot of fleeting beauty, capturing the fragile magic and pure optical wonder of light interference on a microscopic scale, radiating liquid color. + - Prompt: up close the flowing forms reveal themselves to be composed of tightly woven silk threads that catch and reflect light with a subtle iridescence the cool pastel colors are interwoven creating a textured surface with a delicate shimmer the shimmering silvers appear as highlights along the thread strands giving a sense of movement and sheen the subtle lavender and peach emerge as contrasting threads or areas of slightly different weave translucent droplets or small smooth knots of a different perhaps more lustrous silk are incorporated adding textural variation the overall impression is one of luxurious softness intricate detail and a gentle flowing drape the woven texture adds a tactile dimension contrasting with the smooth sheen of the iridescent threads the way the light catches the individual fibers creates a dynamic interplay of highlights and shadows adding depth to the flowing forms the subtle variations in the weave and color create a rich and complex surface that invites closer inspection the translucent droplets or knots add a touch of unexpected smoothness and reflect light in unique ways the overall effect is one of refined elegance and delicate beauty a testament to the artistry of textile creation + - Prompt: a close-up reveals flowing shapes that seem formed from clusters of delicate interconnected mineral crystals the cool pastel colors manifest as subtle variations within the crystalline structures with the mint greens and aquamarines appearing as icy formations the shimmering silvers arise from the reflective facets of the crystals creating a dazzling play of light the subtle lavender and peach hints appear as delicate color zoning within certain crystal formations translucent almost glass-like crystal spheres or droplets are interspersed catching and refracting light through their intricate structures the overall impression is one of frozen motion intricate detail and a cool sparkling elegance like observing a collection of otherworldly geodes or frozen water with internal iridescence the multitude of crystal facets creates a complex interplay of light and shadow with countless tiny reflections and refractions the subtle variations in color within the crystal structures add depth and visual interest the translucent crystal spheres act as natural lenses distorting and magnifying the forms behind them creating a sense of depth and complexity the interconnectedness of the crystals suggests a moment of arrested growth a fluid movement frozen in time the overall effect is one of delicate beauty and intricate complexity a testament to the captivating artistry of the natural world + - Advanced spelling and typography Comics, packaging and collectibles come to life with improved spelling, longer text strings and new layouts and styles. Prompt: The Quest for the Cheesy Treasure (Retro Comic Style): Drawn with slightly pulpy art, Ben Day dots for shading, dramatic close-ups, and lurid colors (orange, deep purples, oranges). Captions use overly dramatic language. Panel one shows Mittens, an orange tabby cat, approaching a lonely, flickering vending machine in a dark breakroom late at night. Caption: "Some cravings demand EXTRAORDINARY measures!" Panel two is a close-up of the yellow glow emanating from the machine's selection window with many cheesy puffs, illuminating Mittens's apprehensive face. Panel three shows a cat leaping at the machine… and nothing. The machine makes a loud CLUNK and WHIRR. Panel four shows a friendly man pressing a button and a cheesy puffs bag fall out. Panel five is a dramatic shot of the triumphant tabby, bathed in lurid orange light, batting open the bag, cheese dust flying dramatically as the caption declares: "The FEAST begins!" + - Prompt: This intimate close-up photograph focuses intensely on a vintage-style paper packet designed for holding perhaps half a dozen eggs, immediately immersing the viewer in a sense of rustic nostalgia reminiscent of small, independent farms and simpler times. The camera angle is slightly elevated, looking down onto the packet which rests invitingly on a surface like subtly weathered barn wood or a simple, pale yellow gingham kitchen cloth, grounding it in a homey context. The paper itself possesses a tangible, pleasing texture – perhaps a slightly rough, unbleached kraft paper feel, with subtle creases or soft folds that suggest gentle handling. The primary graphic, rendered in a charmingly imperfect, faded print style evocative of mid-century commercial art, depicts a heartwarming pastoral scene: a few plump, free-roaming hens rendered in warm, earthy tones of brown and cream peck contentedly near a quaint, hand-drawn red barn illustration against a backdrop of softly rolling green hills under a pale, hopeful sky. Simple, slightly distressed typography, possibly a friendly, rounded sans-serif or a classic, trustworthy serif font, clearly labels it "Golden Yolk Farm Eggs" or "Direct From Our Coop," emphasizing freshness and natural origins. The lighting is soft and warm, akin to gentle morning sunlight filtering through a nearby window, casting delicate shadows that accentuate the packet's humble form and the slightly raised texture of the ink. The shallow depth of field renders the immediate background – the distinct wood grain or the soft fabric pattern – into a gentle blur, ensuring the packaging itself, with its evocative design and palpable authenticity, remains the sole, captivating focus, powerfully conjuring feelings of wholesome goodness, connection to the land, and the quiet promise of a farm-fresh breakfast. + - Prompt: Capture an intimate close-up bathed in warm, soft, late-afternoon sunlight filtering into a quintessential 1960s kitchen. The focal point is a charmingly designed vintage package of all-purpose flour, resting invitingly on a speckled Formica countertop. The packaging itself evokes pure nostalgia: perhaps thick, slightly textured paper in a warm cream tone, adorned with simple, bold typography (a friendly serif or script) in classic red and blue “ALL-PURPOSE FLOUR”, featuring a delightful illustration like a stylized sheaf of wheat or a cheerful baker character. In smaller bold print at the bottom of the package: “NET WT 5 LBS (80 OZ) 2.27kg”. Focus sharply on the package details – the slightly soft edges of the paper bag, the texture of the vintage printing, the inviting "All-Purpose Flour" text. Subtle hints of the 1960s kitchen frame the shot – the chrome edge of the counter gleaming softly, a blurred glimpse of a pastel yellow ceramic tile backsplash, or the corner of a vintage metal canister set just out of focus. The shallow depth of field keeps attention locked on the beautifully designed package, creating an aesthetic rich in warmth, authenticity, and nostalgic appeal. + - Prompt: Pixelated Google dinosaur on vacation in a pixelated landscape + - Prompt: A horizontally oriented rectangular stamp features the Mission District's vibrant culture, portrayed in shades of warm terracotta orange using an etching style. The scene might depict a sun-drenched street like Valencia or Mission Street, lined with a mix of Victorian buildings and newer structures. A large, colorful mural (translated into monochrome orange using varied etching patterns and textures) adorns the side of a building, perhaps depicting Latino cultural themes. Palm trees line the sidewalk, etched with feathery fronds. A taco truck or fruit cart could be etched on the street corner, adding local flavor. Figures representing the diverse community walk by, suggested by simple etched outlines. The denomination "$1.50" is etched onto an awning over a shop. Along the bottom, "SAN FRANCISCO - THE MISSION" is etched in a lively, slightly decorative font. Below, "CALIFORNIA - USA" is etched in smaller letters. The etching conveys the neighborhood's artistic energy, cultural heritage, and sunny climate through texture and pattern. The edges of the stamp are perforated. The stamp is on black background. + - Diverse art styles Imagen 4 can render diverse art styles with greater accuracy — from photo realism and impressionism to abstract and illustration. Prompt: Vibrant graphic illustration in a style reminiscent of contemporary fashion posters, featuring three figures standing shoulder-to-shoulder against a flat, vivid coral background. The mood is playful confidence and bold stylistic expression. Rendered with crisp, consistent black outlines defining forms filled with completely flat, high-saturation colors, omitting gradients entirely. Form and volume are implied through silhouette and the juxtaposition of color shapes, not shading. The figures wear exaggerated, oversized suits mixing wildly clashing patterns: one wears a suit covered in bright red hearts on a pink base; the central figure wears a jarring black-and-white checkerboard jacket with electric blue star-patterned trousers; the third wears a dense, vintage-inspired floral pattern in cream, blue, and yellow. Lighting is flat and non-directional, like a studio fashion shot, ensuring patterns read clearly. Composition is a stable, centered medium shot focusing on the figures from the waist up, emphasizing the outfits. Faces have stylized, simple features and detached, cool expressions. Detail level is high in the patterns, but minimal elsewhere. The overall effect is graphically arresting, clean, and instantly eye-catching. + - Prompt: Whimsical landscape illustration depicting rolling green hills under a soft pink sky, where one of the hills subtly takes the form of a colossal, peacefully sleeping giant covered in grassy turf. The style uses simple, expressive linework and visibly textured color fills, resembling colored pencil, pastel, or textured gouache applied in broad strokes. The mood is gentle folklore, peaceful slumber, and hidden magic within nature. The giant's form is gentle, suggested by the contours of the hill, perhaps with simple linework indicating a closed eye or a relaxed hand forming a smaller mound. Small, stylized houses or trees might dot the landscape for scale. Soft, rounded clouds drift in the pink sky, possibly with simple, sleepy faces drawn on them. Lighting is flat and diffused, like a soft morning or late afternoon, with simple, textured block shadows cast by hills. Composition is a wide, panoramic view emphasizing the undulating landscape and the hidden giant. The color palette is soft and slightly muted: various greens and earthy tones for the hills, pastel pinks and lavenders for the sky. The visible texture within the color areas is paramount to the style. + - Prompt: Expressive landscape painting depicting a winding coastal path overlooking a churning sea, rendered with thick, visible brushstrokes or palette knife marks creating significant surface texture (impasto). The style emphasizes the physical application of paint to build simplified forms and convey raw energy. The mood is rugged beauty, windswept motion, and dramatic nature. The coastal path, cliffs, grasses, and the turbulent sea are represented by distinct, blocky shapes and masses of thick paint. Individual brushstrokes are clearly visible and contribute to the texture of grass, rock, and swirling water. Light, perhaps dramatic late afternoon sun breaking through clouds, creates strong contrasts between brightly lit planes and deep, shadowy areas, all defined by the application of thick, textured color. Reflections on the water are broken and textural. Composition might be a dynamic view looking along the path towards the sea, using the curve of the path to lead the eye, emphasizing the energy of the scene through the textured application. The color palette uses rich, possibly heightened natural colors: deep blues and teals for the sea, earthy browns and vibrant greens for the cliffs and path, perhaps dramatic yellows or oranges in the sky, all applied with tangible thickness. + - Prompt: A delicate and precise watercolor illustration showcasing a small branch laden with ripe raspberries, presented in the style of a vintage botanical study. The mood is gentle, naturalistic, and scientifically observant. The raspberry branch, with several attached green leaves showing fine veins, curves gracefully across a textured, off-white watercolor paper background. Several plump, multi-segmented raspberries in varying shades of red and pink cling to the stem, rendered with soft, layered washes of color to capture their form and subtle translucency. Tiny, hair-like styles are visible on the berries. Highlights are achieved by leaving the white paper untouched or using minimal pigment. Shadows are soft and blended, suggesting gentle, natural light. The focus is sharpest on the central cluster of berries and leaves, capturing details with fine linework overlaying the washes where necessary. The composition is elegant and slightly asymmetrical, focusing attention on the botanical subject. The color palette is soft and natural – reds, pinks, greens, and browns, with plenty of white space. Visible paper texture and subtle water blooms enhance the medium's character. The overall feeling is one of quiet beauty, detailed observation, and the delicate touch of the watercolor medium. + - Prompt: Atmospheric narrative illustration depicting a young woman with dark hair styled with a single star clip, eating dumplings at a small round table in a bustling, late-night eatery reminiscent of a vintage Hong Kong diner. The style blends clean linework with textured color fields, evoking a sense of place and story. The mood is intimate contentment amidst vibrant surroundings. Soft, warm overhead lighting from unseen hanging lamps casts gentle highlights on her face and the porcelain plate of dumplings, creating soft-edged shadows on the tiled tabletop and floor. The background features detailed elements like wall menus with stylized illustrations, a retro wall clock, steam rising from a soup bowl, and glimpses of other patrons blurred slightly for depth. The woman, viewed from a slightly high angle, crouches slightly on her chair, intensely focused on her food, rendered with expressive linework defining her pose and features. The color palette mixes muted teal wall tiles and green chairs with pops of warm yellow in her top, pink trousers, red chili oil dish, and ambient light, creating a cozy yet lively feel. Subtle paper texture or digital grain is visible throughout. Focus is sharp on the character and her immediate table setting. + - Prompt: Painterly landscape featuring a simple, isolated wooden cabin nestled amongst tall pine trees on the shore of a calm, reflective lake. The style employs blocky, distinct brushstrokes or palette knife marks to build forms, emphasizing shape, color, and texture over fine detail. The mood is remote serenity, quiet isolation, and natural harmony. The cabin, trees, water, and distant hills are rendered as simplified planes and masses of color applied with visible texture. Reflections in the lake are handled with similar blocky strokes, slightly blurred or broken. Light is clear, perhaps late afternoon, creating distinct areas of light and shadow on the cabin walls, tree trunks, and water surface, all defined by shifts in color and value applied texturally. Composition is a stable, possibly wide landscape view, focusing on the relationship between the cabin, trees, and water, perhaps with horizontal bands of color creating depth. The color palette uses naturalistic but potentially heightened colors: deep greens, rich blues, warm wood tones, perhaps a bright accent color on the cabin door, applied with visible impasto or brushwork texture. + - Prompt: This single-panel splash page is rendered in a traditional Sumi-e ink wash style, emphasizing stark contrasts between deep blacks and untouched whites, conveying a sense of serene power and ancient wisdom. A majestic Eastern dragon, its serpentine body coiling gracefully, rests atop a mist-shrouded mountain peak. The dragon's scales are suggested by varying ink densities and delicate brushstrokes, its long whiskers flowing in the implied wind. Wisps of cloud curl around the mountain's base, created by skillful gradations of ink, giving the impression of both immense height and ethereal presence. The dragon's head is held high, its eyes—mere dots of intense black—fixed on a distant horizon, exuding a calm, watchful aura. Sparse, sharp lines suggest the jagged rocks of the mountain summit, contrasting with the smooth, fluid lines of the dragon's form. The overall composition is balanced and contemplative, capturing a moment of quiet strength amidst the vastness of nature, with the dragon appearing as a timeless guardian of the mountain. + - Prompt: A richly textured oil painting capturing a rustic still life arrangement featuring food, evoking a sense of quiet contemplation and the passage of time. The scene is dominated by deep shadows, with a single, dramatic light source (like candlelight or a narrow window beam) illuminating key elements from the side. Centered is a half-cut loaf of dark, crusty sourdough bread resting on a heavy, dark wooden table. Beside it sits a wedge of aged, veined cheese (perhaps Stilton or Roquefort) showing crumbling texture, a few plump, deep purple figs – one cut open revealing its seeds – and a pewter goblet reflecting the dim light. Visible brushstrokes add tangible texture to the canvas surface and the depicted objects – the rough crust, the creamy cheese, the smooth fig skin. The light catches the highlights intensely: the moist interior of the bread, the glistening edge of the cheese, a reflection on the goblet, while much of the scene falls into deep, ambiguous shadow. The color palette is muted and earthy – deep browns, ochres, dark greens, purplish blues, and shadowy blacks, with warm highlights. The composition is stable and grounded, likely a slightly low angle. Focus is on the dramatic interplay of light and shadow (chiaroscuro) and the realistic, tactile rendering of textures within the dimly lit space. + - What’s new in Imagen 4? The latest iteration of Imagen 4 brings marked improvements to its capabilities. Coming soonUltra-fast optionTest dozens of ideas instantly. Imagen 4 comes with a mode that’s up to 10x faster than our previous model. Realize your visionPush the limits of creativity further than ever before with enhanced colors, styles, details and text rendering. Exceptional clarityImagen 4 is optimized for creativity, generating images with up to 2k resolution. Imagine it — visualize it Express your ideas like never before — with Imagen, creativity has no limits. Prompt: Strict nadir aerial photograph capturing the otherworldly beauty and stark geometry of expansive industrial salt evaporation ponds under intense, bright sunlight. Viewed directly from above, the landscape is dramatically divided into large, shallow, sharply angular ponds separated by narrow, pale earthen levees or operational pathways, creating a vast geometric mosaic resembling abstract art. The water contained within these distinct ponds displays incredibly vibrant, saturated, and unnatural colours due to varying salinity levels promoting different species of algae – showcasing striking, distinct flat shapes of intense flamingo pink, fluorescent orange, deep blood red, mustard yellow, and eerie lime green, side-by-side across the flattened plane. The overall visual effect is purely abstract, graphic, and slightly surreal. The critical standout element is a single, small, utilitarian white specialized harvesting vehicle, appearing as a simple white rectangle, captured moving purposefully along a wide, pale, dusty brown levee that forms a straight border between a particularly vibrant fuchsia-pink area and a neighbouring deep orange one. The stark white vehicle provides a crucial focal point of human activity and scale against the vast, colourful, and otherwise largely static and seemingly abstract landscape, highlighting the industrial process behind this strange beauty from a top-down perspective. Sharp focus across the frame reveals the colour boundaries and the texture of the levees. + - Prompt: Hyperrealistic digital art photograph, a joyfully vibrant and artfully delicious image, depicting a fleet of several hot air balloons floating gracefully in a clear, bright blue summer sky above a picturesque, rolling green countryside. The extraordinary and delightful element is that the envelopes of these balloons are not fabric, but are shaped and textured exactly like colossal, perfectly ripe, luminous pieces of fruit. One might be a giant, glossy red apple, another a fuzzy, orange peach, a third a bunch of plump, purple grapes, and a fourth a bright yellow pear, each rendered with incredible, mouth-watering realism, their surfaces showing subtle highlights and natural imperfections. These fruit balloons appear to glow softly from within, adding to their magical appeal. Their traditional wicker baskets hang beneath, carrying tiny, silhouetted, happy figures. The lighting is bright, warm, sunny daylight, making the fruit colors intensely saturated and their surfaces gleam invitingly, and casting soft shadows from the balloons onto the landscape far below. The color palette is a cheerful, luscious explosion of natural fruit colors – vibrant reds, oranges, yellows, purples, greens – against the clear blue of the sky and the rich greens of the countryside. The composition is a dynamic wide shot, capturing the fleet of fruit balloons at various altitudes, creating a sense of a fantastical, joyful aerial parade. The mood is one of pure, whimsical delight, a delicious dream of flight, an artful and uplifting celebration of nature's bounty, rendered with flawless digital precision and a sense of playful abundance. + - Prompt: hyper realistic digital art photograph, imbued with an intensely dreamy, ethereal, and artfully composed atmosphere, depicting a minimalist, contemporary queen-sized bed with a simple, light grey upholstered headboard and rumpled, soft white linen sheets and duvet. This bed, appearing incredibly solid and real, levitates with serene impossibility about ten feet above a vast, rolling field of delicate, out-of-focus lavender flowers that stretch towards a hazy, indistinct horizon. The entire scene is enveloped in a soft, luminous, lavender and pale pinkish-gold haze, as if captured during a magical, pre-dawn mist or an otherworldly twilight. A single, impossibly tall and slender, antique wooden ladder, its rungs weathered and showing subtle grain, leans precariously from the lavender field below, its top resting gently against the side of the floating bed, inviting a sense of ascent into this dream space. The lighting is exceptionally soft, diffused, and almost sourceless, seeming to emanate from the luminous haze itself, creating gentle, subtle highlights on the folds of the white linens and the texture of the lavender, with no harsh shadows. The color palette is a delicate symphony of muted pastels: soft lavenders, dusty roses, pale golds, creamy whites, and the light grey of the bed frame, all blending seamlessly within the dreamy atmospheric haze. The composition is an eye-level medium shot, focusing on the floating bed and ladder, with the soft lavender field blurring into a painterly bokeh in the foreground and background, enhancing the dreamlike depth and sense of serene isolation. The mood is one of profound tranquility, gentle escapism, poetic surrealism, and an artfully suspended moment of quiet contemplation, rendered with a flawless, almost touchable realism that makes the dream feel tangible. + - Prompt: Polished digital photorealism, rendered as if an immaculate, hyperrealistic 3D illustration of breathtaking clarity and flawless execution, depicting a scene of profound tranquility and gentle magic. A serene, androgynous figure, clad in simple, perfectly creased, timeless white overalls that exhibit subtle fabric weave under close inspection, stands with an air of quiet concentration and gentle purpose upon a vast, impeccably smooth, solid cloud plain that stretches to an infinitely distant horizon under a brilliant, crystal-clear azure sky, which exhibits the faintest, almost imperceptible cyan gradient towards the zenith. This "Cloud Gardener" meticulously tends to an enchanting patch of smaller, uniquely shaped clouds; some resemble flawlessly sculpted animals like elegant swans with gracefully arched necks or fluffy, endearing rabbits with minute textural details suggesting soft fur, others appear as intricate, almost crystalline geometric forms with sharply defined facets, each maintaining a soft, yet defined, voluminous structure that catches the light. The gardener uses an oversized, ethereal watering can crafted from what seems to be polished mother-of-pearl with iridescent rainbow sheens, from which a viscous, sparkling, liquid light pours in a gentle stream. This golden, effervescent liquid, filled with tiny, self-luminous particles that leave faint trails, contacts the cloud-sculptures, causing them to shimmer delicately with internal highlights and subtly expand, as if organically growing under this magical nourishment, their edges becoming momentarily more defined. The ambient lighting is exceptionally bright, diffused, high-key daylight, casting incredibly soft, barely discernible, cool-toned shadows beneath the gardener and the cloud-sculptures, profoundly emphasizing the scene's pristine cleanliness and ethereal, almost sterile perfection characteristic of a high-end render. The meticulously controlled color palette is predominantly composed of pure, brilliant whites of the cloud plain (with subtle cool undertones), the soft, subtly varied greys of the developing cloud-sculptures, and the vivid, unblemished azure of the sky, with the warm, golden liquid light providing a striking, yet harmonious, accent that reflects delicately on the gardener's tools and attire. Compositionally, it's an elegant medium shot, placing the gardener slightly off-center, surrounded by their delicate, evolving cloud creations, employing a subtle depth of field that renders the gardener and immediate sculptures in razor-sharp focus, while the furthest reaches of the cloud plain soften almost imperceptibly, drawing the eye to the meticulous central action. The overall mood is one of peaceful, magical cultivation, effortless artistry, and a sublime, inspiring stillness, evoking a sense of quiet joy and otherworldly serenity, captured with the flawless precision of a master digital artist, entirely free of noise, aliasing, or any visual imperfections, showcasing perfect anti-aliasing on all edges. + - Prompt: High-resolution aerial photograph featuring a strong forced perspective, making the ground plane sweep dramatically upwards. Endless, intensely purple rows of blooming lavender form geometric stripes across the landscape, receding into the distance. Cutting through the center is a narrow dirt path. Standing directly on this path, providing a stark focal point, is a single person holding a large, vibrant red umbrella. The intense red creates a powerful color contrast against the dominant purples and greens. Shot under bright, clear sunlight. Deep depth of field renders the texture of the lavender rows and the contrasting umbrella sharply. Evokes whimsical charm, romanticism, and deliberate visual punctuation. Photorealistic style. + - Prompt: Polished digital photorealism, a hyperrealistic 3D render of exquisite delicacy and vibrant color, depicting a sun-drenched, minimalist conservatory or atrium with a high glass ceiling and clean white structural beams. Sunlight streams in, creating bright, soft highlights and dappled patterns on the smooth, pale wooden floor. The space is filled with dozens of life-sized origami birds, each folded from vividly colored, subtly textured paper—scarlet cranes, sapphire swallows, emerald hummingbirds, golden canaries. These origami birds are not static; they are alive, captured in various stages of gentle flight, perching on invisible supports, or delicately fluttering their paper wings, which show faint, realistic paper crease lines. Some are drinking from shallow, clear glass bowls of water placed on the floor, their reflections perfectly rendered. The lighting is bright, natural, and airy, characteristic of a sunlit glasshouse, with soft, diffused shadows cast by the birds and structural elements, enhancing the sense of three-dimensionality and realism despite the paper nature of the subjects. The color palette is a joyful explosion of primary and secondary colors from the paper birds, contrasting beautifully with the serene whites and light wood tones of the conservatory and the bright blue sky visible through the glass roof. The composition is a dynamic medium shot, capturing the lively movement and vibrant colors of the aviary, perhaps with a slight shallow depth of field focusing on a cluster of particularly active birds in the foreground, while others blur gently in the background. The mood is one of playful wonder, delicate beauty, impossible life, and an inspiring celebration of creativity and color, rendered with flawless digital precision, paying close attention to the texture of the paper, the sharpness of the folds, and the subtlety of their animated movements. + - Prompt: Against the backdrop of a tranquil lake, perhaps reflecting a clear blue sky, a magnificent Scarlet Ibis becomes a living flame. Captured in a striking medium shot, the bird is poised just above the water's surface, its wings unfurled to their full, breathtaking expanse in a powerful stretch. The intense, almost unbelievable scarlet of its plumage dominates the frame, rendered with cinematic vibrancy under bright, direct sunlight. Water streams and drips profusely from the trailing edges of its feathers, each droplet catching the sun like a tiny, falling prism, shattering the lake's surface below with miniature impacts. The framing, likely from mid-body upwards, perfectly balances the symmetrical display of the wings against the bird's elegant, curved beak and dark eye. The background remains softly out of focus, ensuring the viewer's attention is riveted by the sheer intensity of the bird's color, the dynamic action of the stretch, and the dazzling play of light on dripping water, creating a visually stunning and aesthetically potent image. + - Prompt: Hyperrealistic art photograph, captured at the blue hour with a high-sensitivity full-frame camera, showcasing a serene, ancient orchard where the trees, gnarled and venerable, bear not fruit, but perfectly spherical, softly glowing miniature moons of varying sizes and phases (crescent, gibbous, full). These moon-fruits emit a gentle, cool white light, casting ethereal, soft shadows on the dewy grass below and illuminating the intricate bark texture of the trees. The background is a deep indigo sky, just starting to show the first faint stars. The photographic style emphasizes flawless clarity and nuanced light: the delicate texture of the moon surfaces, the subtle glow on the leaves, the crispness of the dew-laden grass blades. A shallow depth of field isolates a foreground branch laden with these luminous orbs, while the rest of the orchard recedes into a soft, dreamy bokeh. The composition is intimate and asymmetrical, creating a sense of peaceful discovery and quiet wonder. The mood is deeply poetic, serene, and inspiring, suggesting a magical harvest under a tranquil twilight. + - Prompt: The image is a digitally rendered artwork in a retro-futuristic style, evoking a sense of sleek sophistication and high-speed motion. The scene captures a streamlined, low-profile concept car, its body a blend of cool metallic blues and teals reflecting the warm ambient light. The vehicle is positioned dynamically, angled slightly towards the viewer from the lower-left foreground and extending towards the right middle ground, suggesting forward movement across a dark, reflective surface representing a road. This composition is purposefully off-center, enhancing the feeling of dynamism. The camera angle is low, looking slightly up at the car, which exaggerates its length and futuristic design, making it appear powerful and imposing. Behind the car, the background explodes in warm oranges, reds, and deep purples, depicting a stylized sunset or sunrise over distant, silhouetted mountains. Large, abstract, overlapping arched shapes dominate the upper half of the frame, rendered in deep burgundy, orange, and near-black tones, creating a sense of architectural grandeur or perhaps stylized speed lines. The interplay of warm background colors and the cool tones of the car creates a striking visual contrast. The overall effect is cinematic, using sharp lines, bold color blocking, and dramatic lighting reminiscent of vintage travel posters or advanced graphic design, emphasizing speed, luxury, and a technologically advanced future. + - See what else Imagen 4 can do View images Benchmarks In tests, people prefer the latest version of Imagen to previous models — and other leading text-to-image models. Find out more about the methodology and our performance in the model card. View Model Card Human evaluation on GenAI-Bench: Elo scores a high overall preference benchmark for Imagen 4 vs other models. Human evaluation on GenAI-Bench: win-rate percentages for overall preference between the pairs of models evaluated. Creative limitations Creativity is an evolution. Imagen 4 is our best model yet — but we’re still working on improving key capabilities. Factual representationDiffusion models don’t have the real-world knowledge of LLMs. Users may still see artefacts on complicated compositions — especially in images with small faces, text rendering, and thin structures. Centered imagesImagen sometimes struggles to create centered images — like a circle perfectly aligned in the center of the image. Incomprehensible promptsImagen responds reliably to text prompts, but when it’s given nonsensical prompts (like emojis or a random string of characters), the outputs can be unpredictable. Safety & Responsibility We use extensive filtering and data labeling to minimize harmful content in datasets and reduce the likelihood of harmful outputs. We also conduct red teaming and evaluations on content safety, including child safety, and representation.We're releasing Imagen 4 with our latest privacy, safety and security features. This includes SynthID, our tool that embeds an invisible digital watermark directly into an image, allowing it to be identified as AI generated. Learn more about SynthID Imagen in the hands of developers CartwheelCartwheel’s text-to-animation platform uses Imagen to create new 3D character animations. Learn more ViggleExperimenting with Imagen 3 in its AI video creation toolset. Learn more Try Imagen Gemini Whisk Google AI Studio Vertex AI Studio AI image generation relies on effective promptingYou need precise, detailed prompts to direct text-to-image models to the results you’re looking for. Define the subject and its attributes, including distinct details and actions. Specify the environment or setting, the desired artistic style (like photorealistic, vector art, or specific art movements), and the intended mood or atmosphere.Including parameters for the camera angle and compositional elements will get you even closer to the output you have in mind. With structured and descriptive language, you can guide AI models to produce targeted visual content — see the prompts under images on this page for effective examples. AcknowledgementsCore contributorsGabriel Barcik, Jakob Bauer, Dana Berman, Nicole Brichtova, Lluis Castrejon, Matan Cohen, Sander Dieleman, Yuqing Du, Praneet Dutta, Jess Gallegos, Yilin Gao, Evgeny Gladchenko, Susan Hao, Ruba Haroun, Ed Hirst, Tobenna Peter Igwe, Xuhui Jia, Siavash Khodadadeh, Pavel Khrushkov, Karol Langner, Rory Lawton, Yinxiao Li, Yandong Li, Shixin Luo, Michael Matthieu, Soňa Mokrá, Aäron van den Oord, Lily Pagan, Zarana Parekh, Noam Petrank, Jordi Pont-Tuset, Hang Qi, Deepak Ramachandran, Poorva Rane, Ali Razavi, Robert Riachi, Dirk Robinson, James Thornton, Felix Riedel, Evgeny Sluzhaev, Hansa Srinivasan, Srivatsan Srinivasan, Benigno Uria, Cristina Vasconcelos, Oliver Wang, Simon Wang, Austin Waters, Daniel Winter, Chris Wolff, Zhisheng Xiao, Keyang Xu, Andrew Xue, Katie Zhang and Yang Zhao.ContributorsFaiz Abdul, Oscar Akerlund, Marco Andreetto, Reggie Ballesteros, Ben Bariach, Praseem Banzal, Sherry Ben, Tarun Bharti, Mukul Bhutani, Jon Blanton, Irina Blok, Pankil Botadra, Jenny Brennan, Andrew Bunner, Viral Carpenter, Norman Casagrande, Kelvin Chan, Srimon Chatterjee, Yutian Chen, Ahmed Chowdhury, Shirley Chung, Salil Deshmukh, Vincent Du, Zach Eaton-Rosen, Tom Eccles, Ndidi Elue, Hongliang Fei, Frankie Garcia, Roopal Garg, Mark Graham, Bryant Gipson, Abhinash Giri, Andrew Goodman, Gitartha Goswami, Mandy Guo, Khyatti Gupta, Shan Han, Allen He, Jonathan Heek, Amir Hertz, Emiel Hoogeboom, Cath Hope, Yedid Hoshen, Ashyana Kachra, Ori Kelner, DY Kim, Yelin Kim, Ksenia Konyushkova, Vika Koriakin, Suraj Kothawade, Dana Kurniawan, Fiona Lang, Amir Lellouche, Tao Li, Ricky Liang, Jasmine Liu, Yuchi Liu, Matthieu Kim Lorrain, Yukun Ma, Thomas Mensink, Michael Milne, Mark Murphy, Aida Nematzadeh, Signe Nørly, Yasumasa Onoe, Igor Petrovski, Andrew Pierson, Ryan Poplin, Amit Raul, Javier Rey, Susanna Ricco, Shahriar Rouf, Moonkyung Ryu, Tim Salimans, Sahil Singla, Candice Schumann, Tanmay Shah, Eleni Shaw, Gregory Shaw, Tomer Stolik , Hossein Talebi, Hannah Teufel, Nick Tombari, Andeep Toor, Cristian Udrescu, Shanthal Vasanth, Paul Vicol, Neal Wadhwa, Emma Wang, Qifei Wang, Yuxiao Wang, Ágoston Weisz, Olivia Wiles, Sanghyun Woo, Auriel Wright, Allen Wu, Chenxia Wu, Hao Xiong, Jeffrey Yang, Dan Zhang, John Zhang, Zhenkai Zhu, Martin Zlocha.AdvisorsJason Baldridge, Dawn Bloxwich, Mahyar Bordbar, Luis C. Cobo, Eli Collins, Tulsee Doshi, Anca Dragan, Douglas Eck, Demis Hassabis, Tom Hume, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Helen King, Yeqing Li, Yael Pritch, Oriol Vinyals, Huisheng Wang, Ting Yu and Yori Zwols.
