Guides & Tutorials
AI Image Troubleshooting Guide
Symptom-to-fix table for common generation issues—hands, faces, text, blur, and style drift.
Hands and anatomy
Symptoms: extra fingers, fused hands, wrong joint angles.
Fixes:
- Ask for neutral hand poses or crop with composition language.
- Add negatives: “deformed hands, extra fingers” (Negative prompts).
- Reduce conflicting action verbs; simplify the scene.
Faces and identity drift
Symptoms: changing identity between variations, asymmetry spikes.
Fixes:
- Use a character reference (Character reference).
- Lower chaos (Chaos and variety).
- Lock wardrobe + hair in text across iterations.
Muddy or incoherent style
Symptoms: mixed media, painterly + photoreal clash.
Fixes:
- Remove duplicate mood words; pick one primary style.
- Adjust stylize (Stylize).
Blurry subjects
Symptoms: soft faces, smeared fine detail.
Fixes:
- Increase quality (Quality).
- Add “sharp focus on eyes” or “high acutance on product edges”.
Garbled or wrong text
Symptoms: misspelled signage, random glyphs.
Fixes:
- Follow AI image text rendering.
- Keep on-image copy short and specify font style + placement.
Related
- Raw mode when defaults look over-processed
- Seed value for reproducible debugging