Seedream Prompts: 6 Scenes for Photos and Illustration

Write Seedream prompts around a subject, an action, a setting, a light source, and a medium. The six copyable examples below show how those details look in photos, watercolor, and a screenprint-style illustration. To use them in AI Photo Generator, select Seedream 5 Pro, 1K quality, and a 3:4 shape.

Last updated: October 4, 2026 · 6 min read

The site labels the model Seedream 5 Pro; ByteDance calls it Seedream 5.0 Pro. All six outputs started from text, with no uploaded photo. Repeating copper hair and a teal sweater gives them a shared theme; each scene is a separate generation. The bookshop and greenhouse outputs are retries, and their prompts below are the exact revised instructions used.

How do you use these Seedream prompts?

Choose a scene below and copy its entire prompt into the prompt box. Leave the upload area empty.
Select Seedream 5 Pro, 1K, and 3:4, even if the tool page opened with another model or shape.
Generate, then compare the output with the details you requested: the activity, light direction, visible body parts, and medium.

How do you prompt a sunlit studio or rainy market?

For photographic scenes, the realistic AI image generator has editable prompt examples. Select Seedream 5 Pro there to use the settings above.

1. Making pottery in a sunlit studio

An original fictional adult woman aged 35 with copper shoulder-length hair, wearing a teal crew-neck sweater and charcoal trousers, fully clothed. She is making a small clay bowl on a pottery wheel in a sunlit ceramics studio, both hands naturally shaping the rim. Warm morning window light from the left, shelves of plain handmade bowls behind her, a candid three-quarter seated view with her entire head and the wheel visible. Photorealistic editorial photography, natural skin texture, believable wet clay and linen apron, vertical composition. No text, no logos, no watermark.

The left window lights the hair and apron, while the hands and clay bowl fill the lower frame. To adapt this scene, replace the pottery action and tools together: a painter would need a brush and canvas.

2. Serving a customer at a rainy market

An original fictional adult woman aged 35 with copper shoulder-length hair, wearing a teal crew-neck sweater and charcoal trousers, fully clothed. She is serving an adult customer at a covered rainy outdoor market stall, offering a paper bag of apples over a wooden counter. Cool overcast daylight with a warm lantern under the canopy, raindrops and reflections on the street behind her, crates of fruit in the foreground. Photorealistic documentary photography, medium-wide three-quarter view, her entire head and hands visible, vertical composition. No text, no logos, no watermark.

The bag of apples sits between the seller and the customer's hands. The lantern supplies a warm accent against the cool, wet street. Keep both light sources if you want that contrast in a different market scene.

Seedream prompt results: copper-haired woman making pottery on the left and handing over apples at a rainy market on the right Left: pottery studio. Right: rainy market. Each result: Seedream 5 Pro, 1K, 3:4.

How do you prompt a snowy bookshop or futuristic greenhouse?

3. Reading in a snowy bookshop

An original fictional adult woman aged 35 with copper shoulder-length hair, wearing a teal crew-neck sweater and charcoal trousers, fully clothed. She is reading an open book while seated beside the window of a quiet bookshop on a snowy day. Warm amber reading-lamp light on her face contrasts with cool blue daylight and falling snow outside; wooden shelves hold books with completely blank solid-color cloth spines, without any lettering or decorative marks. Photorealistic editorial photography, three-quarter seated view including her entire head and the open book with completely blank cream pages facing away from the viewer, vertical composition. All visible book surfaces must be entirely blank. No text or simulated lettering, no logos, no watermark.

The amber lamp and blue window divide the scene into warm indoor light and cold outdoor light. The blank book covers and pages are deliberate. Keep that instruction if your scene needs books without lettering.

4. Tending a futuristic greenhouse

An original fictional adult woman aged 35 with copper shoulder-length hair, wearing a teal crew-neck sweater and charcoal trousers, fully clothed. She is tending leafy plants inside a futuristic glass greenhouse, gently touching a leaf beside neat hydroponic growing beds. Soft green daylight filters through curved glass ribs, subtle violet grow lights line the beds, and a distant city is visible beyond the glass. Cinematic photorealistic photography, wide full-body three-quarter view from a few steps back, her entire head and both shoes completely visible with generous floor space below her feet, vertical composition. No text, no logos, no watermark.

Curved glass ribs, violet bed lights, and a distant city establish the futuristic setting. Both shoes fit inside the frame. Use the full-body wording when the floor and surrounding structure matter as much as the face.

Seedream prompt results: woman reading by a snowy window on the left and tending plants in a futuristic greenhouse on the right Left: snowy bookshop. Right: futuristic greenhouse. Each result: Seedream 5 Pro, 1K, 3:4; both are revised generations.

How do you prompt watercolor and screenprint-style art?

Name the medium and the marks you want it to make. The AI art generator uses the same model picker; choose Seedream 5 Pro for these examples.

5. Walking a coastal path in watercolor

An original fictional adult woman aged 35 with copper shoulder-length hair, wearing a teal crew-neck sweater and charcoal trousers, fully clothed. She is walking along a coastal path above a calm sea, with low grasses, white cliffs, and a small sailboat in the distance. Pale late-afternoon sunlight, sea-green and warm ocher palette, full-body side view with her entire head and shoes visible and ample open sky. Watercolor illustration on textured white paper, transparent washes, soft edges and a few precise ink-free details, vertical composition. No text, no logos, no watermark.

Pale washes leave room for the paper texture, with sea-green water and an ocher path. The small walking figure lets the coast dominate. The model also added a backpack that the prompt did not request.

6. Playing cello as a two-color screenprint

An original fictional adult woman aged 35 with copper shoulder-length hair, wearing a teal crew-neck sweater and charcoal trousers, fully clothed. She is seated and playing a cello on a simple stage, her left hand on the fingerboard and right hand holding the bow. A single side spotlight is suggested by flat graphic shapes; keep the full cello, bow and her entire head visible. Two-color screenprint illustration using only deep teal and burnt orange ink on cream paper, bold silhouettes, simplified features and subtle print grain, vertical composition. No text, no logos, no watermark.

Flat shapes, a diagonal spotlight, and grainy texture give the cello scene its print-like appearance. The cello and bow fit inside the frame. Gray shading in the trousers goes beyond the requested teal-and-orange palette, so treat this as a screenprint-style illustration, not a file prepared for two-ink printing.

Seedream illustration results: coastal watercolor with a walking woman on the left and teal-and-orange cello illustration on the right Left: coastal watercolor. Right: screenprint-style cello illustration. Each result: Seedream 5 Pro, 1K, 3:4.

What should you change when adapting a scene prompt?

Keep the details that create the look you like, then change one part at a time. This gives you something specific to compare with the original output.

Detail	Wording in these prompts	How to adapt it
Activity	Shaping a bowl; offering apples	Replace the action and the objects it needs together.
Light	Morning window light from the left	Change the source, direction, or time of day.
Framing	Entire head and both shoes visible	Name the parts that must fit and ask for space around them.
Medium	Transparent washes; bold silhouettes	Replace the medium and its texture instructions together.

For example, to turn the watercolor coast into a woodland walk, replace the sea, cliffs, and sailboat with trees and a forest path. Keep the washes, paper texture, side view, and full-body framing. That variation is a suggestion; it has no output here.

Tool-page examples fill an editable prompt box. The generator sends your prompt to the model as typed. The pricing page, checked October 4, 2026, lists Seedream 5 Pro at 3 credits for 1K and 6 credits for 2K, with no 4K option. Every displayed scene used 1K.

For scenes built around an existing face, start with an uploaded reference and describe what to preserve. The Nano Banana portrait prompt guide shows that workflow with lighting and setting edits.