Identity-Preserving Editorial Portrait

Format

Text

Inputs

Reference_photo (image) · Required

Outputs

Portrait (image)

Create an image using the uploaded image.

IDENTITY AND FACIAL PRESERVATION:
Use the uploaded person’s photograph as the primary facial identity reference. Preserve their exact recognizable facial identity, natural skin tone, apparent age, facial proportions, eye shape and color, eyebrows, nose, lips, cheekbones, jawline, hairline, hairstyle, and distinctive characteristics. Maintain realistic skin pores, subtle fine lines, natural expression lines, authentic facial texture, and individual masculine or feminine features. Do not de-age, excessively beautify, reshape, smooth away natural details, or replace the person’s face. Adapt hair length, styling, wardrobe, and overall presentation naturally to the individual while preserving maximum facial resemblance.

STYLE AND ATMOSPHERE:
Create an ultra-photorealistic, sophisticated natural-light beauty portrait inspired by premium lifestyle photography, timeless editorial headshots, luxury haircare campaigns, and elegant outdoor portraiture. The atmosphere is intimate, relaxed, confident, graceful, warm, authentic, and effortlessly beautiful. Emphasize natural facial character, soft luminous skin, flowing hair, delicate dimensional highlights, and understated photographic elegance.

COMPOSITION AND CAMERA ANGLE:
Create a vertical 4:5 tight head-and-shoulders portrait, with the subject occupying approximately 85–90% of the frame width. Position the face slightly right of center, with the forehead and crown near the upper frame boundary and the shoulders extending beyond the lower edge. Photograph at eye level from a nearly frontal perspective, with the head turned very slightly toward camera-left. Maintain a natural upright head position with a subtle, relaxed angle. The subject looks directly into the lens with a gentle, confident expression and a faint closed-mouth smile. Create an intimate composition emphasizing the eyes, facial features, and natural movement of the hair.

HAIRSTYLE AND MOVEMENT:
Feature voluminous, naturally flowing hair with exceptional individual-strand detail, realistic flyaways, delicate layering, and soft movement. Adapt the reference image’s windswept styling to the uploaded person’s natural hair characteristics. For longer hair, create sweeping layers that frame the face, with a loose section crossing part of the forehead and subtly overlapping one eye. Preserve natural hair color, texture, hairline, and recognizable hairstyle wherever possible. For shorter hairstyles, reproduce the same airy volume, directional movement, and soft face-framing effect without artificially extending the hair.

FACIAL EXPRESSION AND DETAIL:
Capture clear, expressive eyes with lifelike iris patterns, delicate catchlights, realistic eyelashes, naturally defined eyebrows, and subtle reflections. Preserve fine crow’s-feet, natural smile lines, delicate pigmentation, authentic skin texture, and gentle facial asymmetry. Render naturally hydrated lips with soft pink or individually appropriate pigmentation. Avoid exaggerated makeup, artificial skin smoothing, plastic-looking textures, or overly sharpened facial features.

WARDROBE AND FABRIC:
Dress the subject in understated, sophisticated casual clothing inspired by soft charcoal-gray knitwear, textured wool, fine woven layers, or a relaxed premium sweater. Adapt clothing naturally to the person’s presentation and proportions. Include highly detailed fabric fibers, realistic stitching, gentle folds, subtle tonal variations, and authentic material textures. Keep accessories minimal to maintain focus on the face.

LIGHTING AND SHADOWS:
Use exceptionally soft, diffused natural daylight from slightly above and camera-left, resembling bright outdoor open shade. Illuminate the face evenly with delicate directional modeling across the cheekbones, nose, forehead, and chin. Maintain smooth transitions from highlights into soft shadows without harsh contrast. Introduce subtle warm highlights in the hair, delicate luminous reflections in the eyes, and gentle shadow depth beneath individual hair strands. Preserve realistic skin color and controlled highlights without clipping or excessive glow.

COLOR PALETTE AND BACKGROUND:
Use a refined, natural color palette featuring warm beige, soft champagne, muted sandy neutrals, gentle taupe, charcoal gray, and subtle cool-gray undertones. Preserve the subject’s authentic skin and hair colors. Create a beautifully blurred outdoor background with smooth gray-beige gradients, neutral atmospheric tones, and barely distinguishable environmental detail. Avoid distracting objects, visible architecture, artificial patterns, or strong background colors. The background should be creamy, unobtrusive, and exceptionally soft.

CAMERA AND PHOTOGRAPHIC SETTINGS:
Simulate professional full-frame portrait photography using an 85mm prime portrait lens at approximately f/1.8–f/2.2, ISO 100–200, and a 1/250–1/500-second shutter speed. Use shallow depth of field, precise eye focus, naturally compressed portrait perspective, delicate optical falloff, and luxurious creamy background bokeh. Maintain exceptional sharpness in the eyes and central facial features while allowing the hair edges, clothing, and background to transition gradually into softness. Reproduce the organic tonal rendering of premium editorial portrait photography.

RENDERING AND FINAL QUALITY:
Create an ultra-high-resolution image with photographic realism and exceptional micro-detail in skin, eyelashes, eyebrows, hair strands, lips, fabric fibers, and realistic light reflections. Preserve natural anatomy, believable facial proportions, gentle highlights, smooth tonal gradations, and authentic photographic imperfections. Avoid cartoon effects, illustration, excessive HDR, heavy retouching, distorted eyes, artificial hair, waxy skin, and unnatural facial symmetry.

Use a vertical portrait composition with full-frame height emphasis and a cinematic poster layout.