When your style is built on Pony, Illustrious, NoobAI or a similar SDXL anime checkpoint, DreamRunner writes your descriptions as Danbooru tags — short comma-separated labels. These models were trained on tags, and prose gets you a vaguer image than they're capable of.

This page is about editing those fields by hand. See How Image Prompts Work for what surrounds them.

The shape of it

Physical description:

long blonde hair, blue eyes, freckles, tall, athletic build, pale skin

Outfit:

red evening dress, off-shoulder, silver necklace, high heels

Flat, comma-separated, one idea per tag.

Use real tags where you know them

Danbooru tags are a fixed vocabulary, and the model knows that vocabulary precisely. twintails lands harder than "hair in two tails". off-shoulder, hair over one eye, parted bangs, thigh-highs — these are exact labels the model has seen thousands of times.

Where you don't know the tag, plain words still work. Don't invent tag-looking jargon.

Underscores and spaces behave the same, so write whichever you find readable.

Don't add quality prefixes

masterpiece, best quality, score_9, absurdres — leave all of it out. DreamRunner deliberately keeps these out of generated descriptions, and your style already carries whatever its checkpoint needs.

Adding them by hand spends attention on boilerplate instead of your character.

Don't add subject-count or framing tags

1girl, solo, full body, cowboy shot — these belong to the parts of the prompt DreamRunner assembles around your description, and it adds them already. Putting them in your description too means the prompt says it twice, which is at best wasted and at worst contradictory.

If you want to change the framing, change the framing prompt — see Framing & Shot Types.

Don't try to negate

There's no negation in tag prompting. no hat reads as hat. Describe what should be there instead.

Keep physical and outfit separate

Outfits change; appearances don't. A clothing tag written into the physical description follows that character through every outfit change.