Velvet Espresso Afterglow — Gilded Midnight Muse

Format

Markdown Parameterized

Inputs

face_reference_image (image) · Required aspect_ratio (text) · Optional · Default: 2:3 creator_credit (text) · Optional · Default: DeKu

Outputs

generated_portrait (image)

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# Velvet Espresso Afterglow — Gilded Midnight Muse

Create an ultra-realistic editorial portrait of an adult East Asian woman seated in an upscale European-inspired café lounge. Use the supplied face image as the identity reference; the source requests 150% face-image use where supported.

## Scene and pose
The café is intimate and luxurious, with warm amber illumination, dark wood, arched architectural details, pendant lamps, illuminated shelving, striped upholstered banquettes, and softly blurred diners. The woman sits diagonally on a striped booth, legs naturally crossed and torso mostly toward the camera. Her head tilts gently down and toward camera-left; her gaze is softly downward with a calm, dreamy half-smile. One hand rests elegantly on her upper thigh, while the opposite arm bends behind her head, with the hand resting naturally in or behind her hair.

A round cream marble café table with a polished gold/brass edge fills the lower-right foreground. Place a white ceramic coffee cup with traces of foam on a matching saucer at camera-right, with silver cutlery and a folded printed napkin nearby.

## Appearance and styling
Give her very long, deep natural-black hair, mostly straight with loose irregular bends, falling heavily across the camera-left shoulder and beyond the chest. Add wispy curtain/bottleneck bangs, a few fine strands grazing the eyebrows, and hair partly tucked behind the camera-right ear to reveal a tiny pearl-like drop earring. Show individual strands, flyaways, realistic root density, slightly uneven ends, and warm reflections; avoid artificial glassy hair.

Makeup is refined soft-glam evening makeup: lightweight satin foundation that preserves pores; peach-rose blush across the cheekbones and lightly over the nose; delicate warm contour; subtle champagne highlight; softly feathered dark brows; warm taupe-brown eyeshadow with peach undertones; thin black-brown eyeliner with a restrained outward wing; softly defined lashes; and muted rosy-nude/caramel-pink satin-gloss lips with softly blurred edges. Preserve fine facial hairs, tiny tonal variations, and realistic highlights.

Dress her in a fitted ivory/cream strapless corset bustier with sculpted cups, visible vertical boning, and intricate micro-texture resembling tiny beads, woven embroidery, or sequined tweed. Add a narrow vertical row of jewel-like metallic embellishments on the translucent center-front panel. Preserve stitching, fabric tension, slight asymmetry, and tiny reflective highlights. Pair it with a fitted high-waisted minimalist black mini skirt and subtly visible sheer dark hosiery. Her long almond-shaped nails are translucent nude-pink with delicate metallic or glitter detailing.

## Composition and photography
Use a vertical ${aspect-ratio:2:3} candid composition, eye-level with a slight high-angle tendency. The subject occupies about 70% of the frame, centered slightly left, with her head near the upper third. The café table forms a large curved foreground shape at lower-right. Use booth seams, the table edge, ceiling structures, and repeated arches as leading lines; retain layered patrons, lamps, and counters for believable depth. Keep the face crisp and the background softly separated, with balanced negative space and a premium editorial feel.

Use a natural close seated portrait perspective, approximately 35–50mm full-frame equivalent. The source lists 14–24mm for environmental storytelling and 50mm for a flattering environmental portrait; favor the 35–50mm perspective for this composition. Suggested camera setup: Nikon D850 with ZEISS Distagon T 35mm, f/1.8, 1/200s, ISO 100–400. Use soft directional light from camera-left/front at roughly 45°, mixed with warm pendant lights and practical ambient light. Add gentle rim highlights on hair and shoulders, deeper shadows on the opposite side, physically realistic specular highlights, and natural depth-of-field falloff.

Render as photorealistic, Kodak Portra-inspired film photography: warm amber highlights, creamy skin rendering, deep espresso-brown shadows, slightly muted blacks, restrained saturation, organic fine grain, and delicate halation around lamps. Use faint atmospheric diffusion and extremely subtle dust particles beneath the pendant lights, but no literal fog. Include natural imperfections such as pores, subtle blemishes, peach fuzz, flyaway hairs, perspiration highlights, garment folds, and fabric fibers. Maintain tactile texture, realistic hands and fingers, natural arm and crossed-leg anatomy, accurate jewelry, ceramic and metal reflections, and believable shadows. Avoid plastic skin, excessive retouching, malformed or extra fingers, duplicate limbs, broken anatomy, warped furniture, distorted cup or cutlery, fake hair, distorted cleavage, impossible clothing construction, neon skin, oversaturation, extreme HDR, excessive sharpening, CGI texture, text, watermark, or logo.

## Generation settings
Use these source settings where supported: `--ar ${aspect-ratio:2:3} --iw 2 --stylize 150 --v 6 --q 2`.

Creator credit: Prompt by ${creator-credit:DeKu}.