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Photography

Photorealistic Dark Portrait with a Black Cat

Create a dark, cinematic portrait of the woman in the reference photo holding a black cat, with strict identity preservation, realistic anatomy, and low-key lighting.

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Format
Text Parameterized
Inputs
Reference_photo (image) · Required signature (text) · Optional · Default: @retouch.prompt.ai
Outputs
Generated_portrait (image)

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Use the uploaded reference photo of the woman as the one and only source of her identity. Preserve her identity above all other instructions: do not alter, beautify, reinterpret, replace, reconstruct, stylize, or regenerate her face, and do not blend it with another person's features. Preserve her age, ethnicity, facial structure, proportions, expression characteristics, and unique identifying traits, including head shape, eyes, eyelids, eyebrows, nose, lips, jaw, chin, cheekbones, ears, hairline, hairstyle, skin texture, pores, freckles, moles, natural asymmetry, and all other recognition-defining details. She must remain immediately recognizable as the exact same person at any zoom level. If any artistic or technical direction conflicts with identity preservation, identity preservation takes priority.

Create an ultra-realistic, raw-looking vertical portrait in a dark, minimalist, intimate home setting, as if captured spontaneously for a story. Use a 3:4 aspect ratio. Place the woman front-facing at the exact center of the frame, with the camera slightly above chest level, a natural 35–50 mm lens perspective, and a subtle handheld smartphone feel without strong distortion. She holds a large black cat directly in front of her face. The cat occupies the central frame and covers the lower half of her face up to her nose, leaving her eyes and upper face visible. The cat looks directly at the camera with a calm expression, bright green-yellow eyes, and deep matte black fur with subtle contour highlights. Keep the cat black; do not change its fur color.

The woman has long, straight, smooth, thick, naturally detailed hair reaching her waist; keep its color identical to the reference. She has very fair skin, almond-shaped green eyes, long eyeliner wings, a direct gaze, and a cold, slightly hypnotic expression. Dress her in a minimalist beige spaghetti-strap top. Do not add jewelry.

Maintain realistic anatomy and natural proportions for the head, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, fingers, and torso. Avoid morphing, facial deformation, an enlarged or reduced head, unnatural neck length, distorted perspective, anatomical errors, hand or finger defects, and generated facial reconstruction.

LIGHTING AND COMPOSITION: Night photography with extremely low exposure in an almost completely dark room. Use one very soft, diffused frontal light source slightly above eye level, with a neutral-cool color temperature of approximately 4800–5200K. Let the light gently reveal the eyes, forehead, cat fur, and shoulders; let the background fade into pure darkness with no readable details. Use deep shadows, but keep both the woman's and cat's eyes sharp and visible, with catchlights in both. Avoid blown highlights and harsh shadows. Compose symmetrically, visually blending the woman and cat, with their eyes almost on the same horizontal line.

AESTHETIC AND IMAGE QUALITY: Gothic minimalism, mysterious feminine energy, dark elegance, moody editorial styling, and cinematic portraiture. Create hyper-realistic, physically plausible photography with natural human appearance, premium commercial quality, and the convincing look of a real photograph. Use realistic optical behavior, natural depth rendering and bokeh, natural perspective, exceptional microcontrast, and high detail across the frame. Preserve extreme texture fidelity in skin, pores, peach fuzz, skin folds, lips, hair strands, eyelashes, eyebrows, eyes, and cat fur. Keep the eyes lifelike. Use natural skin tones, accurate white balance, professional color grading, realistic color separation, and natural contrast; avoid oversaturation, artificial skin tones, and excessive processing. Aim for ultra-high-resolution, 16K-master-level detail.

Add a bold, clearly visible handwritten signature in the bottom-right corner: ${signature:@retouch.prompt.ai}. This is the only text in the image; include no other signs, captions, or lettering.

NEGATIVE CONSTRAINTS: No face alteration, face replacement, beautification, identity drift, generated identity, AI face reconstruction, CGI appearance, AI look, doll or plastic skin, beauty filter, over-retouching, anime or cartoon features, unrealistic symmetry, bright background, warm lighting, smile, extra objects, side angle, open mouth, colorful interior, excessive contrast, blur, noise, additional animals, fur-color change, or hair-color change. Preserve the woman's identity and anatomical accuracy, with physically accurate lighting, natural colors, and maximum photorealism.

Parameters

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${signature: @retouch.prompt.ai} signature Default: @retouch.prompt.ai

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