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286Trail cam capture — the culprit caught on our night camera (infrared meme)

Your dog, cat or family caught on a night trail camera: black-and-white infrared with temperature, date and time bands.

What you get

  • One black-and-white infrared night capture
  • Info bands for temperature, moon, date, time and camera name
  • Motion blur and glowing eyes

ChatGPT Free OK

Fill in the fields

  1. 1Fill in the fields
  2. 2Copy the prompt
  3. 3Paste it into a GPT chat
  4. 4Send it as is and you get an image like the thumbnail example
  5. 5Attach a real photo that fits the card and it is used in the result: a background photo for background cards, a person or food photo for those cards Optional
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Output format

Choose a mode, then set the size.

After generating · Check the scene and the date and time text, then post it with a line like 'Wanted: the culprit'.

Full prompt 4,181 characters
Generate this image now. Draw it directly - do not describe it, explain it, or ask questions.
Output size 1920x1080 pixels, 16:9 landscape thumbnail. Keep all text large and readable at thumbnail size.

Create one nighttime infrared image captured by a fixed unattended trail camera.
CAPTURED SUBJECT AND ACTION: "【Captured】"
Show the specified subject and action clearly within a believable accidental surveillance capture. Keep enough environment visible to establish what happened. A strange, funny, or uncanny moment should come from the requested action and awkward camera timing.

[Attached photo]
If a pet photo is attached, preserve that animal's proportions, coat-pattern structure, ears, muzzle, and recognizable non-branded physical details, translated into monochrome infrared. If a person photo is attached, use clothing, hairstyle, build, and pose cues to invent a fictional counterpart rather than an identifiable real-person likeness. Place the subject naturally in the new scene; do not paste a photo cutout.
PHOTO RULE: if a photo is attached, use it as described; if no photo is attached, never ask for one and never stop — invent a fitting fictional subject and finish the image.

PLACE selected: "【Place】"
Interpret only the selected choice:
- Backyard: An ordinary backyard with grass, rough fencing, shrubs, fallen leaves, garden objects, and a dark side path.
- Forest trail: A narrow woodland trail with dense trunks, undergrowth, roots, leaf litter, and deep black gaps between trees.
- Shop back door: An unbranded shop's rear entrance with a plain service door, stacked crates, bins, rough pavement, and a dim alley.
- Campsite: A quiet campsite with unbranded tents, folding chairs, scattered camping equipment, trees, and an unlit fire ring.
- Snowy mountain: A snowy mountain trail with pale snowbanks, fir trees, exposed rocks, tracks, and a dark wooded slope.
If this selection line is missing or empty, use Backyard only.

DATE AND TIME TEXT: "【Date and time】"
If this line is missing or empty, use exactly 2026/10/31 03:14:07 in the lower-left information band.
If present, reproduce the supplied string exactly in that position, preserving all digits, spaces, separators, and punctuation. Render the supplied text exactly as quoted, in its original script.

CAMERA NAME TEXT: "【Camera name】"
If this line is missing or empty, use exactly BACKYARD CAM 2 in the lower-right information band.
If present, reproduce the supplied camera name exactly in that position. Preserve uppercase English when supplied; do not invent a manufacturer name. Render the supplied text exactly as quoted, in its original script.

Use one fixed, slightly wide-angle camera viewpoint at plausible mounting height. Black-and-white infrared throughout, coarse sensor grain, modest compression artifacts, bright nearby surfaces, hard frontal IR illumination, rapid falloff into darkness, and slight motion blur only where the action requires it. Animal eyes may show natural white IR eyeshine; never colored glowing eyes. Dense environmental detail remains readable near the subject.

Add two narrow black information bands spanning the image width, one at the top and one at the bottom. Keep all requested action inside the scene between them.
Top left: one plausible fictional temperature in degrees Celsius appropriate to the setting.
Top right: one small monochrome moon-phase pictogram; a decorative camera indicator, not an astronomical claim.
Bottom left: the date and time defined above.
Bottom right: the camera name defined above.
Use small white monospaced camera-overlay lettering with clean alignment and adequate spacing. Do not add a brand, battery icon, app interface, recording button, crosshair, or extra captions.

Output one believable trail-camera capture with embedded information bands. No identifiable real people, trademarks, brands, existing characters, logos, or watermarks.

[Final output format]
Output size 1920x1080 pixels, 16:9 landscape thumbnail. Keep all text large and readable at thumbnail size.
This selected output format takes priority over any fixed canvas size or aspect ratio elsewhere in this template. Adapt the composition, text zones and margins to the selected canvas without stretching or cropping essential content. Device safe areas apply only when a device is selected. Never print these format instructions on the image.

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How to use it · FAQ

When to use it

Use it to make your own version of the "mystery creature caught on the trail cam" meme: a black-and-white infrared frame with glowing eyes, catching your dog running off with a cake at 3 a.m., complete with temperature, moon, date, time and camera-name bands like a real capture. Post it with "Wanted: the culprit".

Filling in the fields

Write one line: who is doing what. Pick the place. Date, time and camera name are printed exactly; leave them empty for "2026/10/31 03:14:07" and "BACKYARD CAM 2". Uppercase camera names look most real.

Using your pet's photo

① Upload a clear photo — do not send yet ② paste the prompt ③ send when both are there. Without a photo, a fictional animal is drawn. The in-card example shows a daytime yard photo (left) and the result (right).

Check the result

  • Do the coat and ears resemble your pet? Is the date and time exact? No stray text?

FAQ

  • Could people think it's real CCTV? Post it clearly as a joke. Never fake captures of other people or other people's shops.