Open any prompt page in the search-visible part of this site and you will find a short note under the image: what the picture shows, which words in the prompt are doing the work, and what to swap to make it your own. Readers ask two questions about them often enough that the answers deserve a page: where do these come from, and why is the rest of the gallery different?
Why the notes exist
The gallery republishes images and prompts that creators shared publicly. Republishing alone is not editorial work — a wall of re-posts with captions is an aggregator, and search engines treat it accordingly. The note is the part that is ours: an explanation of someone else's prompt, grounded in what the record actually contains. Pages still waiting for a note are kept out of the index until one is written, which is why the sitemap is smaller than the gallery. The full policy is in how we curate and credit.
How a note is produced
Every note starts from the same inputs a reader can see: the prompt text, the title, the tags, the category. A drafting pass proposes the note; a review pass checks it against specific rules — every claim must be grounded in the record, details the prompt does not support are never invented, and the prompt text itself is never quoted or rewritten. Notes are English and Chinese from the same pass, written as separate prose rather than one translated from the other.
The drafting step runs on the same public text models everyone else uses, and the review step is ours. We mention this for the same reason the About page does: a site that explains other people's work should be upfront about how its own work is made.
What a note is allowed to say
- What the image shows and what mood it carries — always traceable to the prompt or title
- Which concrete words create the look: lighting, lens, palette, composition, materials
- What to change if you want a different result — the practical half most prompt collections skip
When a note is wrong
Notes are interpretive, and interpretation can miss. If a note on your prompt reads the work wrongly, or you would simply phrase your own intention differently, write to the address on the About page. Corrections are applied to the page, and the original prompt text was never touched to begin with.
The short version: the gallery stores what creators made, and the note explains it. One is a record, the other is commentary, and both are labeled as what they are.