AI Image Generator Prompt Design:

How to get your AI art generator to stop cropping off people’s heads

An AI Prompt Engineer shows you how to get full body shots

Jim the AI Whisperer
8 min readSep 5, 2022

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A headless torso, the Queen of Hearts. Artwork created by The Jasper Whisperer, using the Jasper Art image generator (2022)
“Off with your head! Dance till you’re dead!”

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If you’ve been using AI image generators, you’ll know that the bane of our existence is the badly cropped pic. For some reason, AI loves to taunt us by giving us near-perfect images that are lobbed off by an ill-positioned frame.

Nothing ruins a pic like a headless torso.

Likewise, it’s a photography rule to never crop at a joint. It looks uncanny. And lots of content calls for a full-length body shot. So what can we do?

The Full Body Problem

For someone who enjoys solving linguistic and visual puzzles (prompts are effectively both), getting a full-length portrait was an exciting challenge. Here’s an insight into how a prompt engineer goes about creating one:

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Jim the AI Whisperer

🏆 7x Top Writer. AI Whisperer & Prompt Engineer. Writing about effective use of AI in copywriting, art, design, branding & games!