How to create perplexity-style graphics

If you missed the episode with Phi Hoang or are still refusing to join the design community on Twitter, I’ll catch you up: Perplexity’s brand is taking over.

So Brett from Designjoy made a little tutorial showing you how to create Perplexity-style graphics of your own 👇

For the first graphic, here was the prompt used in Midjourney:

"a realistic painting of a man standing on the shore looking out at the ocean and night sky, camera is behind the man looking at his back, soft shadows, realistic painting --ar 2:3"

Here's what it generated:

I wanted way more stars in the sky, so instead of trying to capture everything I wanted in one photo, I prompted Midjourney to just generate stars for me.

Here's the output:

Now let's merge them together in photoshop, and then add a blend mode (Dissolve) to the stars.

Of course we'll add our text and logo on, as well as a dust texture on top to give it that vintage look, and here's what you get:

Lastly, let's add a moon, and blend them together (screen) in Figma.

Here's the finished result:

Let's do another one. Here's the prompt:

"a realistic painting of a man standing on the shore looking out at the ocean and night sky, camera is behind the man looking at his back, soft shadows, realistic painting --ar 2:3"

I've skipped ahead and added the text and logo:

Now let's use the stars we used in the previous graphic and layer them on top to give it an interesting look. I used the "difference" blend mode this time. Don't forget the dust texture on top.

Let's made one more. Here's the prompt:

"man laying in field of flowers, realistic painting, earthly tones"

Here's the image generated:

Lastly, let's use the jungle graphic from the previous image and layer it on top using the "difference" blend mode in Figma (or Photoshop).

The most important thing is to experiment. You can see by just using previously generated images and blending them into another image you can come up with something very cool and unexpected.

This is a very "light" tutorial, and you can definitely spend way more time and effort here getting it closer to Perplexity, blending several more elements into the mix to create some dope compositions.

Hope you enjoy!

👉 Originally on X