[Last Updated: 03/13/2024]

To control composition, consider two methods:

1️⃣ Use prepositions in your prompt.

In --v 6 and beyond, we can use prepositions to position things in relationship to one another, which helps us create the composition of our canvas. These prepositions seem to work well: left, right, center, middle, foreground, background, above, below, beneath. We can also experiment with complex prepositional phrases like in the distance or on the horizon (with perhaps less reliability).

New to English? Learn more here! Basic Prepositions of Place in English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4530pfmquro

Here are more example prepositions that might work to control composition:

Left
Right
Center
Middle
Foreground
Background
Above
Below
Beneath
Adjacent
Parallel
Perpendicular
Behind
In front of
Beside
Between
Beyond
Underneath
Across
Within
Containing
Around
Over
Through
Along
Near
Against
Outside
Inside

If that's not enough, try the second method...

2️⃣ The earlier things in your prompt are fairly reliably going to occupy the focal point of the canvas.

If you say A duck in a field with a basket of flowers then the duck will likely occupy the focal point, but if you say A basket of flowers in a field with a duck then the basket of flowers will more likely occupy the focal point.

See this example expressed in --v 6.0:

**A basket of flowers in a field with a duck. --seed 123456 --v 6.0**

**A duck in a field with a basket of flowers. --seed 123456 --v 6.0**

You can use this to your advantage. If you want something to appear to the left or right side of the canvas, it sometimes helps to mention something else first, which by happy accident may change how things are laid out in the composition.

All of this is helpful for prepping a canvas for Multiple Subjects and of course Multiple Characters.