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Candid Café Portrait with Identity Preservation

Create a realistic, candid smartphone-style portrait of the person in the uploaded photo, using the Pinterest image only for pose, styling, composition, environment, and mood.

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Uploaded_personal_photo (image) · Required Pinterest_reference_image (image) · Required
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Use the uploaded personal photo as the sole identity reference. Preserve the exact identity, facial structure, eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips, jawline, skin tone, facial proportions, hairline, natural hair color, body proportions, and recognizable personal features. Use the Pinterest image only for pose, styling, composition, environment, and mood. Do not copy the Pinterest model’s face or physique. Do not beautify, slim, reshape, idealize, lighten, darken, or replace the person’s identity. Keep realistic skin texture with visible pores, subtle peach fuzz, natural tonal variation, and authentic human detail.

Create an ultra-realistic vertical indoor lifestyle portrait closely inspired by the reference image. The scene should feel like a spontaneous stylish photo taken inside a modern artisan bakery or café with an open counter area. The mood is cool, feminine, effortless, slightly playful, contemporary, and Pinterest-worthy, with a minimal off-duty city-girl aesthetic rather than a professional fashion campaign. It should look like a genuine smartphone photo taken by a friend.

Use a 3:4 vertical composition, framed from approximately mid-thigh to slightly above the head, with enough café interior visible to establish the location. Position the woman standing close to a wooden service counter, body angled slightly toward the viewer’s left while the torso remains mostly frontal. Shift the weight onto one leg for a relaxed asymmetrical stance. Raise both arms so the hands are near the sides of the face and hair, with the elbows bent and sleeves covering part of the hands. Let the hands lightly frame the hair and face. Keep the body language natural and relaxed.

Turn the face slightly toward the camera and use a calm confident expression with softly pursed lips or a subtle pout. The gaze may be directed through dark sunglasses toward the camera. Preserve the natural mouth shape and facial structure.

Dress her in a fitted heather-gray long-sleeve top with a simple crew neckline, soft stretch fabric, and a clean body-skimming silhouette. The sleeves should be extra long and extend over part of the hands, creating the same cozy casual styling as the reference. Pair it with a short charcoal-gray tailored mini skirt or skort with a structured waistband, subtle pleats or seam shaping, and a polished matte suiting texture. Keep the outfit monochrome and minimal.

Add narrow black rectangular or softly oval sunglasses with dark lenses and a slim frame. They should fit naturally without altering facial anatomy. Keep jewelry minimal and understated. Add a large black quilted shoulder bag hanging from one shoulder or resting against the hip on the viewer’s right side. The bag should have soft diamond quilting, a structured flap, a metal chain strap woven with black material, and small gold-tone hardware, but no prominent readable logo. Keep the bag slightly oversized but proportionate.

Hair should preserve the user’s natural identity-related characteristics while following the reference styling. Where the person’s hair length allows, style it very long, smooth, softly voluminous, and worn loose with a center or near-center part. Let the hair fall over both shoulders and down the torso with realistic weight, slight movement, and natural strand separation. Keep it glossy but not wig-like. The hands may adjust the hair without covering the face.

Makeup should be polished soft glam while preserving the person’s exact identity. Keep realistic luminous skin with visible pores and authentic texture. Use softly defined brows, neutral brown or taupe eye makeup, subtle sculpting, soft rose or muted peach blush, and a nude-rose or muted brown-pink lip. Keep the makeup refined and believable.

Build a realistic modern bakery or café interior around the subject. Place a long warm-toned wooden counter directly behind her, with darker gray or charcoal lower cabinetry beneath it. On the left side, include a partially visible bread or pastry display with shelves holding loaves or baked goods. Add a small service area behind the counter with minimal functional details. In the upper background, show a clean white or light-gray wall with warm wood framing elements, simple handwritten-style menu boards or paper notices with small indistinct text, and a few exposed circular vents near the ceiling. Include long linear ceiling lights for a modern industrial-café look.

Keep the environment warm, realistic, and utilitarian, with brushed metal, painted walls, warm wood, and matte cabinetry. Preserve an open-kitchen café feel.

Lighting should feel like soft mixed indoor lighting. Use warm ambient café light combined with cool-white linear fixtures overhead, producing a neutral-to-warm balance across the skin, gray outfit, hair, and black bag. Keep the face readable beneath the sunglasses with gentle shadows. Add subtle highlights to the hair, bag quilting, chain hardware, and countertop edges. Avoid direct flash, harsh spotlights, dramatic rim light, or strong color casts.

Keep the color palette close to the reference: heather gray, charcoal, black, warm wood, creamy white, muted taupe, soft metallic gray, and small gold accents. The image should feel clean, urban, understated, and slightly moody.

Photography style: ultra-realistic premium smartphone lifestyle portrait, candid indoor fashion photo, authentic handheld perspective, realistic skin, jersey fabric, suiting, leather, quilting, wood, and metal textures, crisp subject detail, moderate environmental depth, subtle indoor softness, minimal retouching, and a polished Pinterest/Instagram aesthetic. The result should feel like a real spontaneous café snapshot, not a studio shoot or overprocessed AI render.

Negative prompt: changed identity, copied Pinterest model face, altered skin tone, generic beauty face, body slimming, exaggerated curves, enlarged lips, plastic skin, excessive smoothing, extra fingers, missing fingers, fused hands, duplicate limbs, broken elbows, impossible arm pose, warped sunglasses, oversized sunglasses, handbag covering the entire torso, tiny handbag, readable brand logo, bright colorful outfit, white top, black skirt, trousers, denim, short sleeves, stiff hair, hair covering face, empty café, restaurant dining room, nightclub, harsh flash, studio lighting, extreme bokeh, blurry face, warped counter, duplicated background objects, readable menu text, CGI, illustration, cartoon, watermark, text overlays.

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