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- Design & Image
Nocturne of Forgotten Butterflies — Cinematic Piano Editorial
Create a photorealistic, cinematic fashion editorial of a woman reclining across a grand piano, with blue butterflies and warm afternoon light. Uses a face reference image.
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Prompt template
- Format
- Markdown Parameterized
- Inputs
- Face_reference_image (image) · Required aspect_ratio (text) · Optional · Default: 9:16 image_weight (text) · Optional · Default: 2 stylize (text) · Optional · Default: 150
- Outputs
- Generated_image (image)
Replace the ${…} placeholders with your values
before using this prompt. See parameters
and defaults below.
Create an image using the provided face-reference image at 140% strength. Preserve the reference identity and pose. Use ControlNet 1.2 for anatomical consistency and natural proportions.
## Nocturne of Forgotten Butterflies
Create an ultra-realistic cinematic editorial photograph of a slender young woman resting gracefully across the polished surface of a grand piano in an abandoned music room bathed in soft afternoon light. Use a dramatic overhead point-of-view angle. Her body forms a gentle flowing curve along the piano keys; one arm rests above her head while the other relaxes naturally beside her. Convey quiet melancholy rather than motion.
Her long chestnut-brown hair spreads naturally across the glossy black piano. Individual strands catch the sunlight, creating delicate halos of illuminated flyaway hairs. Her expression is peaceful and introspective, with closed eyes, relaxed lips, a soft jawline, and natural beauty.
Give her elegant, understated makeup: a porcelain complexion with realistic skin texture and visible pores, soft peach blush, lightly defined brows, muted taupe eyeshadow, fine eyeliner, naturally separated lashes, subtle highlights along the nose bridge and cheekbones, and satin rose-nude lips. Emphasize healthy luminous skin rather than dramatic glamour.
She wears a flowing ivory-white vintage-inspired dress made of delicate chiffon and layered organza. Include intricate pleats, soft gathered sleeves, subtle embroidery, gentle waist cinching, natural wrinkles, translucent layered hems, and graceful folds cascading across the piano and scattered sheet music. Let the fabric fall naturally with gravity into elegant sculptural shapes; keep the styling modest and timeless. Maintain a lean, balanced, anatomically realistic physique, relaxed hands, natural finger placement, correctly proportioned legs, and believable posture.
The surreal yet believable room is dominated by a glossy black grand piano, surrounded by scattered handwritten sheet music, open scores, floating paper fragments, and luminous blue butterflies drifting through shafts of warm sunlight. Add tiny dust particles shimmering in the light beams and reflections across the piano lacquer. Evoke forgotten memories, quiet solitude, and poetic nostalgia without allowing fantasy to overpower realism.
Photograph as if with a professional full-frame mirrorless camera and 50mm lens at f/1.8. Use shallow depth of field, ultra-high dynamic range, soft bloom highlights, subtle hard saturation, realistic film grain, gentle soft blur, muted color grading, warm sunlight mixed with cool ambient shadows, high micro-contrast, realistic global illumination, physically accurate reflections, volumetric lighting, ambient occlusion, and subsurface skin scattering. Render crisp fabric texture, ultra-detailed hair strands, and lifelike butterfly wings, with premium editorial photography quality, masterpiece realism, 8K detail, and a refined cinematic atmosphere.
## Composition and negative cues
Preserve the reference pose. Use an overhead POV shot, rule of thirds, leading lines formed by the piano keys, balanced negative space, cinematic framing, natural perspective, anatomical accuracy, corrected hands and feet, realistic limb positioning, and accurate body proportions. Avoid low quality, blurry faces, duplicated limbs, extra fingers, deformed hands, broken anatomy, bad proportions, distorted clothing, oversaturated skin, plastic texture, artifacts, watermark, text, logo, cross, or cropped composition.
## Rendering parameters
--ar ${aspect-ratio:9:16} --iw ${image-weight:2} --stylize ${stylize:150} --v 6 --q 2
Parameters
Replace each placeholder with your own value, or use its default when one is provided.
${aspect-ratio:
9:16}
aspect-ratio
Default: 9:16
${image-weight:
2}
image-weight
Default: 2
${stylize:
150}
stylize
Default: 150
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