Prompting with Pressed Plants: Exploring Botanical AI Image Styles

I’m new to the eLearning community, so I don’t yet have a set of go-to AI image prompts. This challenge inspired me to start experimenting with visual styles that connect to my background and design interests.

I’m a botanist, and I also enjoy making art with pressed flowers and leaves, so I tested a prompt style in ChatGPT that imagines an instructional scene made from dried plant materials. I started with a realistic field-photo prompt, then tried variations using magazine-paper collage and pressed-plant collage effects.

I’m interested in whether this kind of nature-based visual style could work in a future digital course, especially for botany, field identification, or environmental learning. I’d welcome any feedback or suggestions.

AI prompt: 

Create a high-resolution color photographic image of a 50-year-old woman, active body-type, in field clothes (light tan and light olive color), light brown hair with a few gray streaks, hair in a ponytail, looking at a sunflower plant that is 6" taller than she is. There are other sunflowers in the scene. She's wearing a backpack and is carrying a slr camera. The setting is a Great Plains prairie in August. There are small rolling hills in the distant background and medium-height native forbs and grasses in the foreground. Blue skies. The woman's female black tri, Australian shepherd with brown eyes and a white stripe down the middle of its face is standing nearby.

AI prompt: 

In the style of a collage made from very small pieces of paper from magazines, Create a high-resolution color photographic image…

AI prompt: 

Made completely from pressed and dried plant parts (flowers, leaves, stems, roots, petals, etc.), Create a high-resolution image of a 50-year-old woman, active body-type, in field clothes, hair in a ponytail, looking at a sunflower plant that is 6" taller than she is. There are other sunflowers in the scene. She's wearing a backpack and is carrying a slr camera. The setting is a Great Plains prairie in August. There are small rolling hills in the distant background and medium-height native forbs and grasses in the foreground. Clear skies. The woman's female black tri, Australian shepherd with brown eyes and a white stripe down the middle of its face is standing nearby.