Photo Prompts

Prompts for photography, portraits and photo editing workflows.

Family gathered in a modest 1980s living room for an album photograph

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Lived-In Family Room Album Photo

Reworks a family group photo into an ordinary 1980s living-room album print, preserving each person while adding believable domestic period details.

Use [uploaded photo] as the sole identity and composition reference. Re-stage the family in a compact 1980s living room while preserving the original group order and emotional dynamic. Use a fabric sofa, wooden side table, patterned curtains, a shaded lamp, and a few unobtrusive household objects; update clothing to neat everyday [color palette] garments appropriate to each person's age, without making everyone wear the same style. Keep every family member individually recognizable, including facial structure, skin tone, age, relative height, build, hair, and distinguishing details; children must remain children and identities must not merge. Keep the result photographic and believable rather than theatrical. Use on-camera bounce flash mixed with warm lamp light, moderate depth of field, consumer-film color, and a clean album-print texture with only slight fading. Preserve natural skin texture, realistic hands, coherent fabric folds, and the original relationship between every person and the camera. Remove incompatible modern screens and devices, but retain harmless personal objects that do not reveal a later decade. Do not introduce celebrity likenesses, fake brands, legible invented text, excessive neon, heavy sepia, torn-paper overlays, or damage that hides important facial details. Return one polished vertical 9:16 photograph with a period-plausible 1980s finish and no border or watermark.

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Indian 1980s-style saree portrait in soft veranda daylight

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Saree Portrait with Veranda Light

Creates a culturally grounded Indian 1980s portrait with a period-plausible saree, quiet veranda setting, and faithful skin tone and facial features.

Use [uploaded photo] as the sole identity and composition reference. Place the subject on a shaded Indian home veranda in the 1980s, photographed in a composed three-quarter portrait. Change the clothing to a [color palette] saree with a plausible woven border and a simply tailored blouse; use restrained jewelry, a natural drape, a plain plaster wall, wooden doorway, and one potted plant without turning the setting into a decorative set. Preserve the subject's exact facial structure, complexion and undertone, approximate age, body shape, hair texture, and recognizable expression; do not lighten the skin or impose a generic beauty ideal. Keep the result photographic and believable rather than theatrical. Use indirect daylight from the courtyard, soft shadow transitions, warm print tones, modest contrast, and subtle consumer-film grain. Preserve natural skin texture, realistic hands, coherent fabric folds, and the original relationship between every person and the camera. Keep architecture, styling, and accessories region-neutral unless the user supplies a location; exclude palace décor and stereotyped props. Do not introduce celebrity likenesses, fake brands, legible invented text, excessive neon, heavy sepia, torn-paper overlays, or damage that hides important facial details. Return one polished vertical 9:16 photograph with a period-plausible 1980s finish and no border or watermark.

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Couple posed in a 1980s department-store studio with a blue-gray backdrop

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Two-Person Department Store Portrait

Turns a couple photo into a composed department-store studio portrait while keeping both faces separate, recognizable, and naturally proportioned.

Use [uploaded photo] as the sole identity and composition reference. Transform the two people into a 1980s department-store portrait with a simple seated-and-standing arrangement, a smoky blue-gray fabric background, and understated [outfit] choices that coordinate without matching exactly. Maintain their original emotional connection and avoid changing who appears taller unless the source perspective is misleading. Treat each face as a separate protected identity: retain each person's facial geometry, skin tone, approximate age, hairline, build, and individual distinguishing features, with no feature exchange or blended likeness. Keep the result photographic and believable rather than theatrical. Use broad frontal studio lighting, a small catchlight, moderate depth of field, slightly cool shadows, and the clean surface of a well-kept color print. Preserve natural skin texture, realistic hands, coherent fabric folds, and the original relationship between every person and the camera. Do not add glamour makeup, wedding cues, or intimate posing unless those elements already exist in the source or are explicitly requested. Do not introduce celebrity likenesses, fake brands, legible invented text, excessive neon, heavy sepia, torn-paper overlays, or damage that hides important facial details. Return one polished vertical 9:16 photograph with a period-plausible 1980s finish and no border or watermark.

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Warm 1980s-style studio portrait against a muted hand-painted backdrop

Gemini

Warm Painted-Backdrop Studio Portrait

Reframes a single-person photo as a restrained 1980s studio print with warm light, a hand-painted backdrop, and carefully protected facial identity.

Use [uploaded photo] as the sole identity and composition reference. Recreate the person as the subject of a modest neighborhood portrait studio, posed from mid-torso upward against a softly mottled painted backdrop in muted rust, tan, and dusty blue. Replace the visible outfit with [outfit], using era-plausible tailoring and no prominent branding; keep the pose close to the source unless a small adjustment improves balance. Preserve facial structure, eye shape, nose, mouth, skin tone, approximate age, hairstyle density, body proportions, and distinguishing marks without beautifying or reshaping them. Keep the result photographic and believable rather than theatrical. Use a large soft key light, gentle fill, mild lens softness, warm consumer-print color, and fine restrained grain; let the backdrop remain visibly painted without looking artificial. Preserve natural skin texture, realistic hands, coherent fabric folds, and the original relationship between every person and the camera. Keep jewelry simple and period-neutral, and remove visible contemporary accessories only when they conflict with the requested decade. Do not introduce celebrity likenesses, fake brands, legible invented text, excessive neon, heavy sepia, torn-paper overlays, or damage that hides important facial details. Return one polished vertical 9:16 photograph with a period-plausible 1980s finish and no border or watermark.

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