Use AI images for ideas and backgrounds, and photograph the real tea.

AI is good at moods, textures and settings we cannot shoot. It is bad at hands, steam, Arabic letters and honesty. These rules keep it useful.

Start from these approved descriptions.

The tray.

A worn wooden tray seen from above, three small glasses of amber tea, cardamom pods scattered, soft shadow from a window frame.

The jar wall.

Shelves of glass jars with loose leaves and spices, out of focus, warm light, room for a headline on the left.

The steam.

A single glass against Deep Leaf green, steam rising, nothing else in frame. Use as a background only.

The texture.

Close macro of cardamom pods and saffron threads on clay, for packaging and backgrounds.

Copy the style prompt and fill in the subject.

Close-up photograph of [subject], on a worn wooden tray, soft window light from the left, late afternoon, warm color temperature, shallow depth of field, real steam, colors of dried green cardamom, saffron and clay, natural imperfections, film grain, 35mm lens, no text, no letters, no logos, no faces.

Works as a starting point in most image tools. Keep the last line: it stops the tool from inventing text and faces.

Reject images with these looks.

Fake Arabic or Latin lettering. Image tools often draw letters that mean nothing.
Plastic, glossy skin and perfect symmetry.
Lanterns, deserts, camels and gold patterns as shorthand for the region.
Colors pushed past the palette, especially neon orange tea.
Faces that look like a real person, a celebrity or a member of staff.

We always say when an image is made with AI.

Every image made or heavily changed with AI gets the platform's AI label where one exists. If it shows people, places or products as if they were real, the caption or alt text also says “Image made with AI”.

If you publish in the EU, Article 50 of the EU AI Act asks deployers to disclose deepfake images. Check the current rules for your markets with your lawyer.

Run this check before you publish an AI image.

The image shows no real person, and no one who looks like a real person, without written consent.There is no AI-made text or Arabic lettering in the picture. Any words are added afterwards in design software.Hands have five fingers, glasses have one rim, and steam rises up.Colors match the palette and the tea looks like tea.Nothing shows a product, place or result we do not offer.The disclosure is in place: the platform's AI label if it has one, and the caption or alt text line.Someone other than the person who made it has looked at it at full size.

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