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Nigel Reyes

Nigel Reyes

Brand designer & certified copywriter with regular contributions to the Herald Tribune, New York Times, New Yorker, New Zealand Herald & The Guardian (UK & AU)

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More meta prompt magic in AI image generation

6 min readOct 3, 2025

In my previous article, I discussed the nature and usage of meta tokens in AI image generation.

Let’s turn the concept into a practical example to help you adapt the technique to your creative needs.

We start with a real photograph from British photographer and creative director Jack Bridgland, known for his surrealist, off-beat, hypnotic style of image-making (outsize lighting, ’90s iconography, energetic movement and poses).

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Photo: Jack Bridgland

Applying the meta-analysis approach discussed in the previous article, we built prompts to be used on a different platform. Early results seemed to capture a lot of the details and principles behind what had been ‘observed’, while not intending to obtain a direct facsimile.

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Working from these first generations, we developed the prompt further to yield a series of…

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Nigel Reyes
Nigel Reyes

Written by Nigel Reyes

Brand designer & certified copywriter with regular contributions to the Herald Tribune, New York Times, New Yorker, New Zealand Herald & The Guardian (UK & AU)