# Grid position

Frame / Composition / Rules. Checked 2026-10-13.

Puts things exactly where you want them in the frame.

- Use when: Layouts with room for text, product placement, matching a design.
- Phrase: her feet on line 88 of 100 from the top, everything below empty
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/composition/grid-position
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/composition/grid-position.json

## Watch out

- Positions on a grid landed first time where margins and angles in numbers were ignored over four rounds. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Her feet on line 88 of 100 from the top, everything below empty.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Her feet on line 88 of 100 from the top, everything below empty.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: her feet on line 88 of 100 from the top, everything below empty
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Her feet on line 88 of 100 from the top, everything below empty.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: her feet on line 88 of 100 from the top, everything below empty
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: her feet on line 88 of 100 from the top, everything below empty
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Her feet on line 88 of 100 from the top, everything below empty.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Her feet on line 88 of 100 from the top, everything below empty. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film frames tagged by colour, lighting, time of day and composition (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Framing first: https://directorchair.ai/composition/framing-first
- Negative space: https://directorchair.ai/composition/negative-space

## Source

Director Chair field notes on image prompting

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.