The useful result
Produce a poster-style image whose text is spelled exactly as you wrote it.
- Produce a poster-style image whose text is spelled exactly as you wrote it.
You ask for a poster that says “Plant Swap Saturday” and the picture arrives with “Plnat Swop Satuday”. Image tools have improved at lettering, but OpenAI’s own guide says exact text placement and legibility can still fail, and longer or denser text is where problems are most likely. Retrying the same prompt is a slot machine.
The dependable fix is to split the job. Let the image model make the picture and leave room for words. Then set the words yourself in any editor, where spelling, font and size are under your control. This lesson takes about ten minutes and works with any image generator.
The examples below are illustrative exercises, not recorded results from any tool. Sources were checked on 24 October 2026; menus, limits and prices change, so confirm details on the linked pages.
Before you start
- An image generator you already use
- Any editor that can place text (Canva, PowerPoint, Figma or a phone editor)
- The exact words you want, typed in a plain text file
Review evidence
Documentation-based review · 2026-10-24
Primary documentation and official guidance checked on 24 October 2026. Examples, checks and exercises are original illustrations, not recorded tool tests. Cover artwork is a conceptual illustration.
Write the final words first and keep them short
Type the exact headline and any small print into a plain text file and proofread it once. Aim for a headline of about five words. Then tell the image tool to leave a clean empty area and to draw no letters at all. Asking for no text removes the thing most likely to go wrong.
Create a flat illustration of [subject, e.g. potted plants on a wooden table] for a poster. Leave a clean, empty area across the top third for a headline. Do not include any letters, numbers, logos, signs or watermarks anywhere in the image.Example / expected result
Illustrative example; not a recorded model result.
Headline file: “Plant Swap Saturday”. Prompt as above with [subject] = potted plants on a wooden table. Expected result: an illustration with a calm blank band at the top.
Check your result
You have a spell-checked text file, and your prompt explicitly forbids letters, numbers, logos and watermarks.
Generate four options and choose by layout
Ask for four variations and judge each one by its empty area, not its charm. Zoom to 100 percent and scan the blank band and the textures for stray letter-like marks. Pick the version where the space is flat enough that text will be easy to read.
Check your result
The chosen image has no stray characters and a quiet area big enough for your headline.
Set the text in an editor and test it at phone size
Place the picture in your editor and type the words by copying them from your file. Choose a bold font, add a soft shadow or a solid band if the background is busy, and view the result at thumbnail size. If a sign inside the scene must carry words, request that line alone, quoting the exact string, then check it letter by letter against your file.
Check your result
Every letter matches the text file, and the headline is readable when the poster is shrunk to a phone thumbnail.
When it goes wrong
Repeatedly asking the model to “fix the spelling” can change the picture as well as the words. Texture such as fabric or wood grain may still produce letter-like marks, so zoom in before approving. Do not ask a generator to recreate a real brand logo; place the official logo file yourself.
Make it your own
Make a 1080 × 1350 poster for a fictional “Saturday Plant Swap”. Deliver an image with no letters, then the finished poster with the headline “Plant Swap Saturday”, and tick off each letter against your text file.
Useful next resources
Sources and review
- OpenAI: image generation guide (text, editing and consistency notes)
- Google: image generation and conversational editing
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