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Red-Orange Grunge Editorial Portrait

Create a photorealistic, identity-preserving portrait as a bold red-orange grunge collage poster, with monochrome skin, a red jacket, and a thick off-white cutout outline.

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Person_reference_photo (image) · Required Style_reference_image (image) · Required
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Editorial_portrait_collage (image)
Use the uploaded real photograph of a person as the primary identity reference. Transform the person into a striking, cinematic editorial portrait with a bold red-orange grunge collage aesthetic, matching the visual style of the reference image.

1. IDENTITY PRESERVATION
Preserve the person's recognizable identity and likeness as accurately as possible: face shape, facial proportions, eyes, nose, lips, eyebrows, hairstyle, hairline, skin structure, age, and distinctive features. The final image must clearly depict the same person from the uploaded photograph. Do not replace their face with a generic model or alter their identity. Adapt the original appearance naturally to the new artistic style.

2. PORTRAIT AND COMPOSITION
Create a vertical 3:4 portrait, framed from the upper chest to slightly above the head. Position the person centrally, facing the camera or with a subtle natural turn of the head. The head and shoulders should dominate the composition, with the face as the main focal point. Use a confident, serious, slightly mysterious expression. Preserve the person's natural gender presentation and recognizable appearance.

Keep the subject sharply defined against the background. The composition should resemble a premium music-poster campaign, underground cinema poster, or contemporary streetwear editorial artwork.

3. BLACK-AND-WHITE FACE
Render the person's face, neck, and visible skin in dramatic monochrome grayscale. Use realistic photographic facial details, natural skin texture, subtle pores, fine facial hair, and deep cinematic shadows. Apply high-contrast black-and-white grading with bright highlights on the forehead, nose, cheeks, and chin. Keep the eyes expressive and sharply focused.

The grayscale treatment should contrast strongly with the vivid red and orange elements surrounding the subject.

4. HAIR AND FACIAL DETAILS
Retain the person's original hairstyle, hair length, hair color translated into grayscale, and natural hair texture. Emphasize individual strands and slightly tousled volume with dramatic highlights and shadows.

Preserve existing facial hair if present. Do not invent a beard, mustache, cigarette, or other accessories unless they appear in the reference image or are specifically requested. Keep the face anatomically realistic and recognizable.

5. CLOTHING
Dress the subject in a bold deep-red or crimson leather jacket, structured red coat, or contemporary red streetwear jacket with a raised collar and strong lapels. Use realistic folds, subtle leather texture, dark burgundy shadows, and vivid scarlet highlights. Underneath, use a dark charcoal or black shirt.

The clothing should feel modern, rebellious, cinematic, and visually powerful. Maintain believable garment construction and natural shoulder proportions.

6. BACKGROUND — RED-ORANGE GRUNGE COLLAGE
Create an energetic, densely layered graphic collage in vivid orange, burnt orange, crimson red, burgundy, black, and distressed warm ivory.

Include overlapping torn-paper shapes, rough brush strokes, abstract arrows, angular geometric fragments, paint splatters, scratches, halftone patterns, distressed ink textures, ripped poster layers, and fragmented graphic symbols. Add a few bold black chevrons and abstract directional shapes to create visual movement.

The background should feel like a chaotic underground gig poster mixed with experimental street art, punk zine graphics, and contemporary editorial design. Use irregular shapes and strong contrasts rather than smooth gradients or a clean minimalist background.

Keep the collage visually rich but balanced. Do not let background elements obscure the person's face.

7. WHITE CUTOUT OUTLINE
Add a thick, clean, slightly irregular off-white sticker-like outline around the entire silhouette of the person's hair, shoulders, and jacket. The outline should clearly separate the subject from the busy background, resembling a professionally cut-out photographic collage.

Use a subtle secondary dark edge or soft shadow behind the white outline to enhance depth and separation. Keep the outline continuous and natural, following the contours of the hair and clothing.

8. LIGHTING AND FINISH
Use dramatic frontal studio lighting with cinematic shadows, high contrast, subtle film grain, distressed print textures, and a premium editorial finish. Combine photorealistic facial rendering with heavily stylized graphic design in the background.

The face should remain photographic and lifelike, while the surrounding environment feels like a handcrafted mixed-media poster. Use crisp details, rich blacks, vivid reds, glowing oranges, and warm off-white highlights.

9. COLOR PALETTE
Primary colors: fiery orange, scarlet red, deep crimson, burgundy, black, grayscale, and distressed ivory.

The face and exposed skin must remain monochrome. The jacket should be predominantly red. The background should be saturated, textured, layered, and visually dynamic.

10. OUTPUT REQUIREMENTS

Aspect ratio: strictly vertical 3:4.

High-resolution, professional editorial portrait.

Central subject, framed from upper chest to above the head.

Photorealistic face with preserved identity.

Red-orange distressed collage background.

Thick off-white cutout outline around the subject.

Strong contrast between monochrome skin and saturated red clothing.

No borders around the overall canvas.

No text, typography, captions, logos, watermarks, or signatures.

NEGATIVE PROMPT:
Different person, altered identity, generic face, face morphing, excessive beauty retouching, plastic skin, cartoon face, anime, 3D render, full-color skin, orange skin, deformed anatomy, asymmetrical eyes, distorted facial features, extra limbs, unnatural shoulders, blurry face, low resolution, flat lighting, pastel palette, clean minimalist background, smooth gradient background, thin silhouette outline, missing white border, text, letters, typography, logos, watermark.

FINAL DIRECTION: Prioritize facial identity and photographic realism. Reproduce the bold visual language of the reference: monochrome human portrait, striking red jacket, thick white silhouette outline, and an explosive red-orange-black grunge collage. The result should look like a professionally art-directed alternative music poster, not a simple photo filter.

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