FLUX 2 AI Image Generator

What FLUX 2 [max] does well

FLUX 2 [max] is the highest tier of the FLUX 2 family from Black Forest Labs. It is at its best with photographic subjects: products on a set, people in natural light, interiors and food. Glass, metal and fabric keep their texture, and the default look is a photograph rather than an illustration.

Prompt it like a photographer

Describe the shot the way you would brief a photographer: subject, setting, direction of light, lens and mood. The model follows camera language well. Details such as 85mm, shallow depth of field or soft window light from the left change the result predictably.

When another model fits better

For posters, menus and anything with a lot of small text, GPT Image 2 is the safer choice. For quick drafts before a final run, FLUX schnell costs a fraction per image. Both pages are linked in the form.

Starting from your own photo

This page creates images from text. To start from a product photo or a portrait, use the image editor or the image to image tool. There, FLUX 2 [max] works from your reference images.

Writing a FLUX 2 [max] prompt for this form

Order the prompt as subject, surface, light and lens, and name one material the eye should land on. Try "linen shirt folded on a stone bench, late afternoon sun raking across the weave, macro lens, muted greens". Or try "chef plating risotto, steel kitchen, cold overhead light, warm lamp over the pass, slight hand motion". The Food shot and Product on marble presets give a starting brief in the same order. Swap in your subject and keep the light line. Leave lettering out of the prompt, because text rendering is weaker here than in GPT Image 2.

Format choice and when to hand off

The Format menu offers Square 1:1, Portrait 4:5, Landscape 16:9 and Portrait 9:16. Decide before writing: a 9:16 frame needs the subject stacked top to bottom. A 16:9 frame leaves room at the sides for copy. Each run costs 16 credits. For a headline or a price tag in the same scene, move to GPT Image 2 at 14 credits. When skin and fine texture in a close crop matter most, Nano Banana Pro renders at 2K for 38. For testing wording, FLUX schnell costs 1 credit per image. Ten trial runs there cost less than one image here.