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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

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 ImagineFLUX.2 KleinQwen Image 2.0
DeveloperxAIBlack Forest LabsAlibaba
ArchitecturexAI MoEDiT + Qwen3 (4B)Unified Gen + Edit (7B)
Max Resolution1K1K2K native
SpeedFast (seconds)Sub-secondFast (7B)
Image Quality
Photorealism
Text Rendering
Aspect Ratios1074
EditingPrompt-driven (1 ref)Inpaint, style transfer (up to 5 refs)Full editing mode (1 ref)
Best ForPhotorealism, peopleSpeed, rapid iterationProfessional, text-heavy

Grok Imagine prompt examples

Jun 24, 202600
Read the full prompt — Landscape Through Tinted GlassA 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.
Generate Image — Landscape Through Tinted Glass
Jun 24, 202600
Read the full prompt — Oak Tree In Morning MistA 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.
Generate Image — Oak Tree In Morning Mist
Aug 14, 202600
Read the full prompt — Diving Board Poised PortraitA woman stands at the very end of a diving board, toes curled over the edge, arms relaxed at her sides, calm face turned to the lens — poised, not yet diving. She wears a saturated tomato-red vintage one-piece #E63946 and a white swim cap #FFFFFF. Flat cloudless cobalt sky #1C3F94 fills the upper two-thirds; flat turquoise pool water below, unbroken and still. Pale concrete deck, one short hard shadow under the board. Hard clean midday California sun, high overhead, crisp edges, no haze. Camera: eye level from the poolside, medium-wide, f/8, whole figure sharp with generous air around her head. Bold mid-century color blocking, poster-graphic flatness, David Hockney flavor.
Generate Image — Diving Board Poised Portrait
Jun 24, 202630
Read the full prompt — Contour Light On Sculpted FaceMacro three-quarter view of a smooth sculptural head-form, neutral matte clay surface in warm cream #E9B98A. Across its relief — temple, cheekbone, jaw, hairline — run thin continuous contour lines of warm glowing light, hugging every curve like topographic lines, tracing the exact shape of locks of hair and proportions of the face. Lines are razor-thin, unbroken, following the volume precisely. Background: dark plum #1E1820, soft falloff, the form lit so its silhouette emerges from shadow, with a single deep rose accent #8C4A55 grazing one cheek edge. Lighting: warm intimate key wrapping the form from front-right, gentle and close, sculpting the relief. Camera: macro, f/4, tight crop, form fills the frame, three-quarter angle. Surface feels tactile — fine clay grain catching the light lines.
Generate Image — Contour Light On Sculpted Face
Jun 24, 202600
Read the full prompt — High-Fashion Frontal PortraitFrontal 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.
Generate Image — High-Fashion Frontal Portrait
Jun 24, 202610
Read the full prompt — Same Face Across Three ErasTriptych — 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.
Generate Image — Same Face Across Three Eras
Jun 24, 202600
Read the full prompt — Plaster Melts Into SkinTight macro, subject pushed to right third. A single continuous surface that transforms left-to-right: on the left a matte white plaster cast face #EFE9DF — chalky, slightly porous, micro-chips visible; mid-frame the plaster dissolves seamlessly into living human skin — warm sand #D8CCBC mid-tone deepening to #9C9082 in the cheek hollow, real pores, fine vellus hair, a faint pulse of warmth. No seam, no line, no mask edge — one material flowing into the other. Hard low side raking light from the left grazes across both textures, throwing long micro-shadows that read plaster grain and skin pores identically, proving the join is invisible. Background: out-of-focus concrete #9C9082, flat and quiet. Camera: macro f/4, surface fills frame, focus razor-sharp at the transition zone. Palette: bone #EFE9DF, warm sand #D8CCBC, taupe #9C9082. Museum-minimalist object study.
Generate Image — Plaster Melts Into Skin
Jun 24, 202610
Read the full prompt — Empty Vanity Chair GlowHollywood 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.
Generate Image — Empty Vanity Chair Glow

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