21 Best Ideogram Prompts To Try as a Content Creator

AI text-to-image generators can create everything from logo designs to fantasy art based on written descriptions. The quality of the output, however, depends heavily on the quality of the input — unclear or vague prompts will lead to less accurate results.

In this guide, we’ll explore how to create Ideogram AI prompts that produce high-quality images for your projects.

What’s Ideogram AI?

Ideogram AI is one of the leading text-to-image generators, developed in 2023 by experts from Google Brain, UC Berkeley, CMU, and the University of Toronto. The model generates visuals from scratch based on user descriptions.

One of its strengths is incorporating text into pictures. Other models struggle with misspellings and misshapen letters, but Ideogram seamlessly includes phrases in your photos. This makes the model a great companion for content creation, as you can easily include text overlays on visuals like YouTube thumbnails and merch designs.

If you’re ready to add Ideogram to your video production process, look no further than Captions. We’ve partnered with Ideogram and several other image generation tools, so you can create custom visuals from within a single interface.

21 Best Ideogram Prompt Examples for Content Creators

Use these Ideogram examples as starting points to produce professional designs for your YouTube videos, TikTok posts, and any other projects requiring high-quality artwork.

Portrait Ideogram Prompt Examples

1. Realistic portraits — Close-up portrait of a toddler with curly brown hair and big blue eyes who just ate a donut and has chocolate all over his face. 
2. Professional portraits — A professional headshot of a lawyer in front of a blurred bookshelf in the background. She’s wearing a black blazer, a navy blouse, and gold earrings. 
3. Gamer portraits — A playful, futuristic 3D image of an older teenager wearing gaming headphones. They’re sitting at a desk and playing on a computer. Use an anime meets cyberpunk style. 

Poster Ideogram Prompt Examples 

4. Retro music festival posters — A concert festival poster with a bright yellow background and bold typography in a retro rock and roll, garage band style. The style should resemble a cross between Woodstock’s and Lollapalooza’s posters.
5. Business posters — A poster promoting a bar at night in an urban environment with a neon sign. The sign features a pink-and-orange color palette and stylized typography reading “The Dew Drop Inn.” 
6. Ecological charity posters — A minimalist style poster for a climate change charity. It has a sunlit, blue sky background with a silhouette of the Earth and the words “Give Today To Save Tomorrow” in bold typography, evoking a call to action. 

T-Shirt Design AI Prompt Examples

7. Fan T-shirt design — A text-only logo for a T-shirt and a YouTube outro card. It says “Official [Channel Name] Fan Club,” using a vibrant, cartoon-like font, portraying a fun and playful mood. 
8. Running society T-shirt design — A lively sketch of a runner in motion, outlined in black, with hair swept back as if running against the wind. Abstract lines surround the figure to emphasize movement, paired with bold typography that reads "Against the Wind."
9. Podcast T-shirt design — A retro T-shirt design with a silhouette of an old-fashioned microphone wearing cool sunglasses. It’s for T-shirt merch, video watermarks, and video podcast thumbnails. 

Professional Product Photography Ideogram Prompt Examples 

10. Tech gadgets — Professional photo of a 3D image of a portable smartphone charger. It’s sitting on top of a perfectly square gray box with a dark background, evoking a clean Apple-like aesthetic.
11. Food and beverage photos — A vivid close-up image of a piece of pizza with slightly burnt and bubbly cheese and perfectly yellow pineapple. Use a soft, somewhat blurred background to emphasize the textures and colors of the ingredients. 
12. Beauty and lifestyle products — A set of high-quality hair dye boxes neatly lined up on a marble countertop, bathed in soft, sunlit tones from a half-open window on the right. Beside them, a casually folded beach towel and a woven picnic basket hint at a relaxed, summer-ready vibe. The image has a faded, sunlit background with a halfway open window to the right.

Photography Effect AI Prompt Examples

13. Vintage aesthetic — A vintage logo to use at the beginning of Instagram Reels. It’s a 1970s-style cassette tape player and a Polaroid picture set against a background with dark color tones that illustrate a rebellious mood.
14. Black-and-white look — A grainy black-and-white portrait of a family in a car in front of a drive-in movie theater. Something like “Casablanca” plays on the screen, and kids enjoy popcorn out of a classic red-and-white striped bag.
15. Cartoon style — A portrait in the spirit of the “Tom and Jerry” cartoon with a mouse running along a path full of obstacles, such as tools, broken plant pots, and crushed soda cans strewn about, with palm trees lining the route.

Blog and Article Illustrations Ideogram Prompt Examples

16. Tech blog image — Illustration for a tech blog showing a man wearing a black turtleneck and dark blue jeans. The background features abstract tech visuals with an RGB color palette.
17. Beauty blog image — Playful image for a beauty salon with a handheld blow dryer surrounded by hooded hair dryers. Music notes, water droplets, and smiley faces dance throughout the funky illustration. 
18. News blog image — A straightforward, minimalist illustration of a typewriter with stencil font letters above the vintage typewriter that reads “News That’s Not Boring.”

Creative Video Thumbnail AI Prompt Examples

19. Podcaster YouTube thumbnail — A super playful and vibrant YouTube thumbnail for a video podcast about creating a houseplant jungle in tiny apartments. Plants hang from the ceiling at different lengths to give the visual depth.
20. Lifestyle coach YouTube thumbnail — An image of a coffee cup with the phrase “Make Your Bed, Take On The Day” written in small, bold typography next to a yellow yoga mat and an appointment book opened to a checklist with most boxes checked. ‍
21. Language lesson YouTube thumbnail — A YouTube thumbnail with flags from 12 different countries (including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Spain, and Italy) overlapping one another with text reading “Learn Any Language” in a basic white font.

The Formula for an Effective Ideogram Prompt

Follow these steps to ensure your image reflects precisely what you want.

Provide Context

When creating visuals with Ideogram, start by defining how you’ll use the images — whether for YouTube thumbnails, Instagram Reels, or TikTok videos. Mention the platform and the image’s intended purpose, such as making it kid friendly or suitable for a futuristic sci-fi project.

Be Specific With Your Concept

The more descriptive your prompt, the more accurate the result Ideogram AI will generate. Provide as many specific details as possible about figures, objects, backgrounds, and, if applicable, text styles you want in your visual. To add more context, include small details that help set the scene, like an empty soda bottle in the background or an overflowing trash can off to the side.

Define the Style

In addition to details about the physical elements, describe the visuals’ ideal mood and aesthetic in the text prompt. For instance, specify whether you want something abstract or grounded in a particular era or culture, such as Art Deco or cyberpunk.

Use Magic Prompt To Refine Text Descriptions

After providing an initial description, use Captions' built-in Magic Prompt feature to refine your input. Magic Prompt expands on your idea, helping Ideogram better understand your request.

How To Create Ideogram Images With Captions: 4 Steps

Captions’ Ideogram AI integration turns your text prompt into professional-level visuals you can include in any video project. Follow these four steps to produce AI-generated images with our tool:

1. Upload your video to Captions — In your “Projects” dashboard, click “Upload a video” to import your footage to the platform. 
2. Generate your image — Choose “Image” from the sidebar, select “Ideogram AI,” and express your vision with descriptive details. Use Magic Prompt to improve your input, then choose a frame size.
3. Customize your image — Regenerate your photo until it’s exactly what you want. Then, insert it into your video and adjust the size, placement, and on-screen duration.
4. Download, export, and share — Save your finished video project to your device and share it across social media platforms.

Create Stunning Ideogram AI Images With Captions

Generating images with AI is one of the top ways to save time during content creation. Whether you need product photos for your new perfume line or pictures of nature for outdoor-based blog posts, Ideogram and Captions can help.

Once you upload your raw footage, AI enhances it automatically. Let the platform make changes for you, or generate images, a B-roll, music, sound effects, and voiceovers to polish your posts.

Access the best in generative AI through Captions today.