Tags for making your image even better

Tags for making your image even better

By Fortuna

Anybody can put "masterpiece" in their tags to make a good image. To make a good image great is in tastefully picking the tags that aren't always optimal. Here's a selection of tags that can make a big difference.

Border

  • Viewfinder

  • polaroid photo, Fake photograph

Camera

  • Fisheye

  • Panorama

  • Depth of field

  • foreshortening - An object pointing towards the viewer made "shorter" than it really is.

Camera Angle

  • Dutch angle - An image that is framed at a tilted angle.

  • From above

  • Vanishing point - When the perspective of a picture appears to draw the viewer's eye towards a central point.

  • Perspective - An image that greatly emphasizes the three-dimensional aspects of the subject.

  • From outside

  • Upper body

  • Cowboy shot - Face through thighs

  • Wide shot, very wide shot

Lighting

  • Volumetric lighting

  • Backlighting

  • Sidelighting

  • Diffraction spikes

  • Atmospheric perspective

  • Chiaroscuro - Strong contrasts between light and dark across an entire composition.

  • Dappled sunlight, tree shadow

  • Vignetting - The image softly darkening around the edges.

  • Silhouette

  • -Backlighting

  • -Grayscale - Saturation boost

Lighting State

  • Sunset

  • Twilight

  • Stage lights - Basically frontal lighting.

  • Embers

  • Candlelight

  • Window shadow

  • Colored shadow

Stylization

  • Abstract

  • Abstract Background

  • Surreal

  • Silhouette

  • Minimalism

  • flame painter (medium)

  • Double exposure

  • Woven hatching - Woven hatching is a shading technique where the artist uses short sets of parallel marks in one direction. The effect looks woven or like a basket.

  • Pointilism - Artwork made up entirely - or almost entirely - out of dots.

  • Stippling - A shading technique, where shadow is applied using dots of varying density

Background

  • Scenery, landscape, nature, mountains

  • Seascape

  • Architecture

  • Cityscape, urban, skyline, rooftop

  • Ruins

  • Loaded interior, messy room

  • Sky focus, cloud focus

  • bokeh - A photographic effect where circular out-of-focus points of light appear in the background of the image.

Posing

  • Pose, dynamic pose, dancing

  • Fighting stance

  • Motion blur, speed lines, motion lines, trembling

  • Flowing hair

Image Forms

  • Isometric

  • Partially underwater shot, caustics, refraction

  • Comic, multiple views, cut-in, collage

  • fine art parody

  • Poster

  • Magazine Cover (seems the highest quality "cover" variant)

Thanks to Danbooru for the borrowed tag definitions.

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