How to Share an AI Image Together With Its Prompt

A finished image is only half the hand-over. A client wants to know it can be reproduced, a teammate wants the prompt to build on, and an audience on social media asks "what was the prompt?" under every good post. Yet the prompt rarely travels with the file. This guide covers what each route keeps and the simplest way to share both.

Why the prompt gets lost

• Files rarely carry it. Local tools are the exception: AUTOMATIC1111 writes the generation parameters into the PNG, and ComfyUI embeds the whole workflow. Hosted platforms mostly add provenance labels (such as C2PA content credentials) rather than your prompt.
• Social platforms strip metadata. The Content Authenticity Initiative notes that it is still common for platforms to remove it on upload, and a screenshot removes it every time.

What each platform offers

Midjourney

Midjourney content is public by default unless you use Stealth mode (Pro and Mega plans). On public images, the prompt, references and parameters are shown alongside the image on midjourney.com, so the image page is itself a way of sharing the prompt. With Stealth on, that page is private and you need another route.

ChatGPT

A shared ChatGPT conversation link can include the images in it, along with your messages, so it carries the prompt in context. It is a snapshot as of the moment you create or update the link, and it shares the whole conversation, which is not always what you want a client to read.

Civitai and local tools

On Civitai, an image's generation data appears only if the uploaded file still carried its metadata, which works best with files from AUTOMATIC1111-style tools. Share the original PNG, not a screenshot or a converted JPEG.

Three ways that always work

1. Put the prompt in the caption or message. Simple and universal. Include the model and key settings, because the same prompt gives different results on different models.
2. Send a one-page sheet. For clients, a document with the image, prompt, model, settings and date is a professional hand-over and doubles as your record.
3. Share from your library. Dreamdrive, a free Chrome extension, saves each image with its prompt automatically. From your library you can share an image with its prompt as a card, send a share link you can revoke later (Pro), or export a project summary as PDF or CSV for a client.

What to include

• The full prompt, including any parameters or negative prompt.
• The platform and model version.
• Reference images, style codes or seeds if you used them.
• The date, because models change.

Related: keeping a record of AI work for clients.