Surreal Melting Flag Portrait

Create a photorealistic, melting-paint portrait that transforms a person’s face and fedora using their chosen country’s official flag.

By Threads — Published on Oct 18

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Prompt template

Format: Text Parameterized
Inputs: Face_reference_photo (image) · Required country (text) · Required
Outputs: Portrait (image)

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

Create an ultra-photorealistic surreal melting-paint portrait in vertical 9:16 format, using my uploaded face photo as the identity reference and the official flag of ${country} as the visual theme.

Preserve my real identity and recognizable facial features as closely as possible, including my facial structure, skin tone, age, eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips, facial hair, glasses if present, and other distinctive natural features. Do not beautify me into a different person. Show only my floating head, neck, and stylish wide-brim fedora, perfectly centered and facing directly toward the camera against a clean, pure white studio background. Do not show shoulders or torso.

Use the correct official flag colors, arrangement, stripes, crosses, stars, symbols, and geometric structure so ${country} remains immediately recognizable. Adapt the flag naturally across the contours of my face and hat instead of simply placing a flat flag over the portrait. Keep selected areas of my natural skin, eyes, facial hair, and other facial details visible so I remain clearly recognizable.

The fedora must carry the same country theme, with thick glossy wet paint, realistic reflections, and small splashes and droplets flowing naturally from the brim. Transform portions of my face and my lower face and neck into long, dramatic streams of melting liquid paint using the flag colors. Make the liquid thick, dimensional, and realistically viscous, with beautiful reflections, rounded droplet tips, and subtle shadows. Add one small, elegant metallic emblem inspired by ${country} to the fedora band.

Give me fully open, exceptionally clear, realistic eyes matching my real eye color, with detailed irises, natural pupils, moisture, reflections, and catchlights. Give me a warm, confident smile showing clean, naturally bright-white realistic teeth. Keep the expression believable and human.

Use ultra-photorealistic premium studio photography and a surreal liquid-paint sculpture aesthetic. Include realistic skin pores, individual facial-hair strands, crystal-clear eyes, natural white teeth, glossy wet paint, realistic liquid physics, cinematic reflections, soft professional studio lighting, HDR, razor-sharp facial focus, extreme micro-detail, and a luxury editorial finish with an 8K appearance. Keep any Patrick’s Place branding extremely hidden; do not add visible logos, signatures, or additional watermarks.

Avoid changing my identity, incorrect flag colors or layout, closed or artificial-looking eyes, yellow teeth, oversized fake teeth, distorted glasses or facial anatomy, extra faces, shoulders, torso, a messy background, and random lettering. The finished image should immediately communicate: “THIS IS ME. THIS IS MY COUNTRY.”