Grok Imagine — Photorealistic AI image generation by xAI

Grok Imagine

Photorealism Powered by xAI

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Grok Imagine by xAI delivers photorealistic quality with an intuitive grasp of people, lighting, and real-world detail — powered by a mixture-of-experts architecture trained on billions of examples.

Capabilities

Reference-based generation and editing, 10 native aspect ratios

Reference Image Upload

Reference Image Upload

Key Features

Photorealistic rendering, text in images, prompt-driven editing

Photorealistic Human Rendering

Grok Imagine is built for realism. It renders people with convincing skin texture, natural lighting response, and anatomically accurate proportions — from editorial portraits to full-body fashion shots. Faces hold up at close range, with coherent eye reflections, hair strands, and skin detail that most image models still struggle with.

Photorealistic Human Rendering

Built-In Text Rendering

Grok Imagine renders legible text directly into generated images — headlines, labels, short phrases. Create ad creatives, event invitations, or social graphics with readable text baked into the image, reducing the need for post-production overlays. Accuracy is competitive and improving, especially with simple, well-prompted text.

Built-In Text Rendering

Prompt-Driven Image Editing

Upload any image and edit it with a text prompt — change the background, shift the color palette, add or remove elements. Grok Imagine preserves the original's structure and lighting while applying your changes, keeping the result coherent and realistic. One reference in, one edited image out — no masks, no layers, just language.

Prompt-Driven Image Editing

Compare Models

	Grok Imagine	FLUX.2 Klein	Qwen Image 2.0
Developer	xAI	Black Forest Labs	Alibaba
Architecture	xAI MoE	DiT + Qwen3 (4B)	Unified Gen + Edit (7B)
Max Resolution	1K	1K	2K native
Speed	Fast (seconds)	Sub-second	Fast (7B)
Image Quality
Photorealism
Text Rendering
Aspect Ratios	10	7	4
Editing	Prompt-driven (1 ref)	Inpaint, style transfer (up to 5 refs)	Full editing mode (1 ref)
Best For	Photorealism, people	Speed, rapid iteration	Professional, text-heavy

Grok Imagine prompt examples

Jun 24, 2026230

Read the full promptTriptych — three vertical film-still panels in a row, one continuous warm cinematic grade, Portra 400 grain. The SAME male face in all three, recognizably identical features, different era and role each panel. Panel 1: noir detective, fedora, smoke, hard directional key carving cheekbone shadow, low-key. Panel 2: 1970s man, wide collar, sideburns, sun-flooded amber haze, soft window light. Panel 3: present-day man, plain tee, cool overcast daylight from camera-left, natural skin texture, pores visible. Thin 6mm dark seam #221C17 splits panels. Palette: burnt sienna #B5603A, wheat highlight #E8C98E, near-black #221C17. Distinct cinematic light per panel, unified warm grade across all. Camera: matched medium close-up, eyeline level, 50mm feel, faces fill each frame. Three film genres aesthetic.

Jun 24, 202660

Read the full promptA wide landscape scene — rolling hills, a lone farmhouse, scattered trees — viewed entirely THROUGH a tinted glass pane held across the full frame. The glass washes the whole image in one unified glass cyan grade #2E8FA8: every element, sky, field, rooftop, shifted into the same cool tonal family, proving 'one grade over the entire frame'. The underlying scene composition stays fully intact and readable — hills, house, trees in their natural positions, only the color is bathed. Soft frost-white highlights #DCEAF0 catch the top edge of the glass as gentle specular streaks; a faint indigo #243B6B band deepens the lower corners of the pane. Symmetrical framing, glass edge subtly visible left and right. Cold even daylight passing through the pane, no warm tones. Camera straight-on, f/8, wide, whole scene sharp. 'Shot through painted glass' conceptual aesthetic, cool.

Jun 24, 2026130

Read the full promptFrontal high-fashion campaign portrait of a real person, billboard quality, face strictly head-on to camera. Flawless photorealism: living skin with visible pores, fine peach-fuzz, natural sheen on cheekbones, individual brow hairs, catchlight in both eyes. Subject in structured editorial wardrobe, confident neutral expression, shoulders square. Palette: burnt sienna #B8431F dominant seamless backdrop, warm gold #E9D2A6 skin highlights and fabric, deep espresso #1A1410 shadow falloff on jaw and neck. Lighting: glossy directional studio campaign key from front-right, controlled specular on skin, soft shadow shaping cheek — polished but tactile, not plastic. Warm cinematic film-look grade, Portra 400 grain, A24 tonality. Camera: medium-format frontal, f/4, sharp eyes, gentle falloff to ears. High-fashion campaign aesthetic. Square crop, subject centered, breathing room above head.

Jun 24, 202670

Read the full promptA single weathered oak tree standing alone in a misty meadow at dawn, positioned left of center, mid-distance. Low golden sun breaks through ground fog behind the tree, casting long soft shadows stretching across dewy grass toward the viewer. Tall grasses and wildflowers in the foreground, slightly backlit, edges glowing. Distant tree line dissolves into warm haze. Painterly, atmospheric, calm pastoral mood. Palette: golden haze #E0A24C dominant in the misty sky and sunlit grass, olive shadow #4A4326 in the tree silhouette and foreground tones, cream light #F2DCA8 in the glowing fog and highlights. Light: low golden sun through morning mist, long raking shadows, soft diffused glow, no harsh contrast. Camera: wide single-subject vista, eye level, f/8, deep focus from foreground grass to horizon. Warm pastoral dawn aesthetic.

Sep 11, 202680

Read the full promptExtreme close-up frontal portrait, dead-center and rigidly symmetrical, filling almost the entire square — forehead and chin near the top and bottom edges, shoulders squared to the lens and cropped by both side edges. One person, strong distinctive bone structure, heavy brows, high cheekbones, natural facial asymmetry, visible pores, freckles, fine lines, no retouching. Calm unyielding gaze straight into the lens, lips closed, no smile, head perfectly upright. Background: dense oxblood #6E1E2A wall, edge to edge, one flat color. Hard direct sun almost head-on carves crisp shadows under cheekbones and nose and throws a sharp-edged silhouette shadow onto the wall behind. Wheat #E8C89A warmth on lit skin and collar; a single small acid green #B6D733 detail — one earring. High contrast, clean air, f/8, everything sharp.

Sep 11, 202650

Read the full promptBright orange plastic desk fan #FF5A1F, unbranded, no logos or labels, spinning at full speed yet every one of five blades frozen razor-sharp with zero motion blur — individual mold seams, plastic sheen and fine dust specks on each blade readable. Wire cage removed, hub and blade edges crisp. Loose dust motes and a few paper scraps caught mid-air in the airstream, each one sharp. Background: cream seamless #FFF6E8, fan sits three-quarter turned to camera, slightly kinetic tilt, mid-frame. Hard direct light from a single lamp at right with a cyan gel #29E0FF, throwing an electric-cyan edge along the blade tips and a hard-edged shadow to the left across the cream sweep. Camera: eye-level three-quarter, f/8, whole fan and airborne debris in focus. Palette: orange #FF5A1F body, cyan #29E0FF rim and shadow, cream #FFF6E8 ground. High-key object-hero.

Jun 24, 202650

Read the full promptHollywood vanity makeup mirror ringed with bright glowing warm bulbs, a peachy-pink luminous glow #FF9A8B flooding the scene like a soft dawn. An empty modern director chair sits before it, vibrant honey-gold #FFC24B fabric, slightly angled. Surface: warm cream #FBE9D2, soft and clean. Air feels optimistic, high-key, the bright hopeful moment before becoming a character — no person yet, the chair waiting. Loose makeup brushes and a fresh glossy print rest on the cream counter, catching warm bulb light. Palette: cream #FBE9D2 dominant, peachy-pink #FF9A8B glow, honey-gold #FFC24B accents. Lighting: even warm glow from the ring of mirror bulbs wrapping the whole scene, bright and airy, no shadows pooling, no dark corners. Camera: medium shot, slight angle, f/4, mirror and chair sharp. Background: softly lit warm peach studio wall #FBE9D2, bright. Petra Collins warmth.

Sep 11, 202650

Read the full promptVictorian railway station, departure morning. Right third, close to camera: a 15-year-old boy in a plain wool coat, standing perfectly still, facing the lens straight on, both hands on a large leather suitcase; face fully lit and readable. Behind him the platform and a burgundy #7B1E22 steam locomotive recede diagonally to the left in clear layers — luggage trolleys, cast-iron columns, distant carriages. Thick white-blue steam #C9D4DA billows around the wheels, no motion blur, nobody running. Warm stone and brass #C08A3E. Light: angled sunbeams through the arched glass roof, dust in the beams, even fill on the face. Camera: eye level, 35mm, f/8, sharp front to back.

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