What's your workflow to generate images that come out close to what you've imagined?

I have been toying around with Stable Diffusion for some time now and have been able to get out great images.

However, as I dive deeper I want to really get images that match as closely to what I imagine and I'm kinda struggling to get there.

For now, I work with Control Net and Inpainting, which help a lot, but I have yet to produce images I'm really satisfied with.

How's your workflow when composing specific images? Do you complement it with Photoshop (or similar)?