How to photograph a space so it renders well, how to write a prompt that holds the architecture still, and how to tell a finished render from one that only looks finished. The craft layer under every other cluster.
Written for Interior and exterior designers doing the rendering themselves · 3 articles
The window slides, the doorway closes, the radiator disappears. An honest account of what AI rendering does to a room's architecture, and the masking routine that stops it.
Stop collecting prompt lists. This is the structure underneath them: subject, material specifics, light and constraint, plus an honest account of what a prompt can never fix.
Most of what goes wrong in an AI render was already wrong in the photograph. Lens choice, camera height, mixed light and one uncleared coffee table do more damage than any prompt can undo.