Where to Go Next
The tools change constantly; the fundamentals don't. These are the sources worth returning to rather than the ones that will be stale in a quarter.
Read the official guides — they are better than almost everything else written about prompting, and they are current.
- Midjourney Docs — parameters, reference images, style tuning
- OpenAI image generation guide — prompting and editing with GPT Image
- Google Gemini image guide — Nano Banana prompting and conversational editing
- Runway prompting guides — genuinely the best writing available on video and camera prompting
- Black Forest Labs and Ideogram — model notes and prompting for FLUX and typography work
Places to see what's actually possible
- Hugging Face Spaces — try new open models free in the browser, usually the day they appear
- Civitai — the open-model community; every image is published with the prompt and settings that made it, which makes it the best free prompting textbook in existence
- Lexica — searchable prompt archive
- PromptHero — prompts organised by tool and style
On rights and licensing
- U.S. Copyright Office — Copyright and Artificial Intelligence — the primary source, updated as guidance evolves
- Your own tool's terms of service, and your client contracts. Nothing substitutes for reading these.
If you want to understand the machinery
Everything technical that used to sit in this course now lives where it belongs, with the rest of the theory:
- Deep Learning › Diffusion Models — how diffusion actually works, the open-weight model landscape, LoRA and fine-tuning, ControlNet, and running models locally with ComfyUI or Automatic1111
- AI for Everyone — language models, prompting and AI capabilities in general
- Deep Learning — the full path from neural networks to transformers and diffusion
And the honest closing advice. Pick one tool. Use it for a month on real work with real deadlines instead of trying everything. Keep a prompt journal. Build a reference folder of your own images. Learn to describe light. Everything else in this course is detail on top of those five things.