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Photorealistic Low-Light Selfie Portrait

Create a vertical, photorealistic smartphone selfie portrait of the woman in the reference photo, with carefully directed pose, anatomy, styling, and low-key red lighting.

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Text Parameterized
Inputs
Reference_photo (image) · Required aspect_ratio (text) · Optional · Default: 9:16
Outputs
Portrait (image)

Replace the ${…} placeholders with your values before using this prompt. See parameters and defaults below.

Create a photorealistic vertical portrait in ${aspect-ratio:9:16} based on the attached reference photo. Preserve the woman’s recognizable facial features, appearance, age, eye color, and hair color.

POSE AND ANATOMY — HIGHEST PRIORITY
The woman is seated on a wide, soft surface. Her right leg is bent and naturally drawn toward her torso, slightly off-center in the frame. Her chin rests lightly on the upper part of her own right knee. Her head tilts forward only slightly, with her neck in a natural position.

Make the leg position clear: show part of the thigh flowing continuously into a rounded knee, with the beginning of the lower leg visible below it. The thigh and lower leg must connect at one anatomically correct joint. Keep the knee a normal size relative to her face and body, with no elongated or split shape.

Her other leg is lowered and outside the frame. Do not add a second knee beside her face. Do not create a separate limb whose connection to the body is unclear.

Place the knee approximately in the same plane as the face, only slightly closer to the camera. It should occupy a small area of the lower third of the image, must not obscure the torso entirely, and must not become the photograph’s main subject. Leave enough space in the frame for the seated pose to read clearly.

HAIR
Give her very thick hair in its original color, styled in a voluminous layered blowout with lifted roots, large, smooth S-shaped waves, and heavy, silky layers. A wide front section of hair crosses diagonally over part of her face, partially covering one eye.

MAKEUP AND EXPRESSION
Use an even complexion while preserving natural skin texture. Add neat, dark, laminated-effect brows; long black eyeliner wings; light cheek contouring; and full lashes with varied lash clusters. Use a nude-pink lip liner without changing the shape or volume of her lips. Her expression is calm and confident, and she looks into the camera.

CLOTHING AND BACKGROUND
She wears an opaque, long-sleeved leopard-print bodysuit. The background has a modern light-colored wardrobe with flat doors, narrow panel seams, and long black vertical handles, plus a white ceiling.

LIGHTING
Use subdued low-key lighting. Soft red side light creates deep shadows. Weak neutral fill light keeps the face, the edges of the knee, and the position of the leg distinguishable. The photo should be dark, but the anatomy must remain readable.

CAMERA
Make it look like a natural selfie taken with a smartphone’s front-facing camera, slightly below eye level and at arm’s length. Use a slight diagonal tilt, without an extreme low angle or wide-angle enlargement of the nearest body parts. Frame it as a close portrait that includes part of the torso and the bent leg.

REALISM
Use natural proportions, soft skin folds at the bend, believable contact between the chin and knee, and consistent shadows. Show detailed fabric texture and natural skin without plastic-looking retouching.

EXCLUDE
An enormous knee in the foreground; two joined legs in place of one knee; a split joint; extra limbs; a thigh whose connection to the knee is cropped out; unnatural twisting of the body or neck; the chin merging into the leg; and strong perspective distortion.

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

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