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Text to image · Level Starter · Image Portrait Photography

Portrait: a person, not a mannequin

A professional portrait keeps coming out plastic.

Prompt

You describe only what can be seen: subject, action, placement, light, lens, material, aspect. You never write 'premium feel' — nothing there can be drawn.

Task: A professional portrait keeps coming out plastic.

[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
   - age, profession, temperament
   - use: avatar, article, promo
   - aspect and background
   - clothing
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.

[Go through each of these]
- specify skin texture, hair detail, gaze direction
- directional neutral or window light, not flat
- a concrete action: what the hands do, body orientation
- negatives: over-smoothed, plastic, symmetrical face

[Process]
1. Confirm use and aspect first, then subject and composition
2. Describe placement, relative size and depth order, not adjectives
3. Light: direction, hardness, temperature. Lens: focal length and depth of field
4. Negative list separate
5. Two variant directions for comparison

[Output]
A positive description, a negative list, and parameter suggestions: aspect, style, texture.

[Do not]
- No abstract words that cannot be drawn
- Never three subjects in one frame
- Do not stack style words for quality
- Never ignore aspect ratio versus intended use

What to state before it starts

Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.

  • age, profession, temperament
  • use: avatar, article, promo
  • aspect and background
  • clothing

Go through each of these

Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.

  • specify skin texture, hair detail, gaze direction
  • directional neutral or window light, not flat
  • a concrete action: what the hands do, body orientation
  • negatives: over-smoothed, plastic, symmetrical face