Elegant Beauty Editorial Portrait
IMPORTANT — IDENTITY PRESERVATION IS THE HIGHEST PRIORITY
Use the user-uploaded photo as the ONLY source of the main subject’s identity and facial appearance. The final person must unmistakably be the same person from the uploaded photo.
Preserve the user's exact:
- facial structure and proportions
- face shape, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips, cheeks, jawline and chin
- natural skin tone and distinctive facial characteristics
- hairline and recognizable features
- apparent age and gender identity
DO NOT copy the identity, facial features, ethnicity, or appearance of the person in the reference image. The reference image controls the visual concept, pose, expression, styling, composition, and graphic design only.
REFERENCE EXPRESSION, GAZE & HEAD POSE
Recreate the reference subject's calm, elegant, self-assured expression. The face has a subtle, composed, almost understated expression with relaxed lips and a gentle confident presence rather than a broad smile.
Reconstruct the reference expression independently of the user's source-photo expression. The user's uploaded photo provides identity only.
Match the reference:
- relaxed, confident facial expression
- soft, slightly narrowed/relaxed eyes
- gaze directed toward the camera/viewer with a composed, sophisticated look
- head turned slightly toward the viewer while maintaining the elegant three-quarter body orientation
- natural, poised head position
- calm and effortless emotional atmosphere
MAIN SUBJECT & POSE
Create a vertical editorial beauty/fashion portrait matching the reference composition.
Place the main subject prominently in the center-right portion of the frame, occupying most of the poster vertically. The body is shown in a medium-full / three-quarter portrait, with the torso angled diagonally rather than completely front-facing.
Recreate the reference body posture:
- shoulders and torso turned slightly sideways
- upper body leaning naturally into the composition
- one arm raised beside the face
- raised hand positioned close to the cheek/side of the face in an elegant, delicate gesture
- fingers relaxed and naturally curved
- opposite arm and body partially integrated into the draped clothing
- graceful, feminine/editorial posture when appropriate to the user's identity, but do not alter the user's gender
- relaxed shoulders and sophisticated fashion-poster presence
The pose should feel candid yet carefully composed, elegant rather than rigid.
CLOTHING & STYLING
Recreate the reference styling as closely as possible while adapting it naturally to the user's identity.
The subject wears an elegant traditional South Asian draped outfit resembling a sari, with a light-colored fabric featuring delicate floral motifs and subtle decorative detailing. The fabric wraps naturally around the body and falls diagonally across the torso.
Include:
- light/white or pale traditional draped fabric
- small floral embroidery/printed motifs distributed across the fabric
- elegant decorative border/details
- traditional bangles stacked around the raised wrist
- refined, minimal jewelry/details consistent with the reference
- long, voluminous dark hair falling naturally around the shoulders and down the back, while maintaining the user's recognizable hair characteristics where possible
Do not make the clothing overpower the face. The styling should remain sophisticated, editorial, traditional, and elegant.
BACKGROUND & COLOR
Use a solid deep warm red/crimson background covering the entire canvas.
The background should be clean and nearly textureless, creating strong contrast against the grayscale subject.
The main portrait is predominantly black-and-white / grayscale, while the background remains vivid red.
Create a premium fashion-magazine/editorial poster aesthetic with strong visual contrast:
- deep crimson-red background
- grayscale main subject
- warm yellow/orange graphic borders
- white and yellow typography
- selective color accents only where specified
GRAPHIC COMPOSITION
Recreate the exact visual language of the reference as a sophisticated beauty/fashion promotional poster.
At the upper-left/center area, place a large bold headline:
“ELEGANT”
Use oversized condensed/block-style uppercase typography in a vivid golden yellow/orange tone.
Immediately overlapping or positioned across the right side of the headline, add:
“Beauty”
in a large elegant white handwritten/calligraphic script, creating the same layered typography effect as the reference.
Under the headline, add a small white editorial paragraph with approximately the same placement and compact appearance as the reference. The text should visually resemble:
“Beauty isn’t loud, it doesn’t boast,
It’s the calm we love the most.
A gentle smile, a steady grace,
The sunlight resting on a face.”
Keep it small, clean, left-aligned, and secondary to the headline.
At the very top center, add a tiny white line of text resembling:
“Calm, Confident, and Effortlessly”
The typography should feel like a premium fashion campaign rather than a normal photograph.
HIGHLIGHT / INSET BOXES
Recreate the three distinctive rectangular highlight frames from the reference.
Use thin golden-yellow/orange rectangular borders with no heavy fill.
1. Upper facial-detail box:
Place a horizontal rectangular crop over the upper facial region, approximately around the eyes and eyebrows. The box should highlight the subject's eyes, eyebrows, upper nose bridge, and surrounding facial detail. The crop remains consistent with the user's identity.
2. Left hand-detail box:
Place a horizontal rectangular inset toward the left-middle portion of the composition, overlapping near the raised hand. Show a selectively colored close-up detail of the hand, traditional jewelry/bangles where visible, and a delicate white flower resting near or between the fingers. This inset can retain warm natural skin tones and subtle orange/warm environmental tones while the main portrait remains grayscale.
3. Right facial/flower-detail box:
Place another horizontal rectangular inset on the right side around the eye/upper-face region. Show a close-up detail of the user's eye area with a delicate small white flower positioned near the hair/temple, matching the visual concept of the reference. Keep this inset more naturally colored than the main grayscale portrait.
All three rectangles must have clean, thin golden-orange borders and must align naturally with the underlying composition.
LIGHTING
Use soft but directional editorial lighting on the subject.
The main portrait should have:
- strong grayscale tonal separation
- detailed highlights on the face and clothing
- controlled shadows around the hair and folds of fabric
- natural facial texture
- slightly dramatic fashion-editorial contrast
- no excessive beauty retouching
- no artificial plastic skin
The red background should remain relatively flat and uniform.
CAMERA & FRAMING
Use a vertical 4:5 aspect ratio, approximately matching the reference's 736×920 proportions.
Camera perspective should resemble a professional editorial portrait photographed from approximately eye level, using a normal-to-short-telephoto portrait perspective around 50–85mm equivalent, avoiding wide-angle distortion.
Frame the subject as a large three-quarter portrait with the head positioned around the upper-middle/right area and the body extending toward the bottom edge. Preserve the reference's negative space around the upper-left typography.
Do not center the face symmetrically. The composition must leave room for the large headline and graphic elements on the left/upper portion.
IMAGE QUALITY & FINISH
Create an extremely polished, high-resolution fashion-poster image with:
- realistic facial anatomy
- highly accurate identity preservation
- natural skin texture
- realistic hair strands
- detailed fabric and embroidery
- realistic hands and fingers
- clean typography
- precise graphic alignment
- crisp golden borders
- professional editorial retouching
- subtle photographic grain if appropriate
- premium magazine/campaign aesthetic
- strong separation between the red background and grayscale portrait
CRITICAL IDENTITY RULE
USER PHOTO = WHO THE PERSON IS.
REFERENCE IMAGE = HOW THE PERSON LOOKS, POSES, EXPRESSES THEMSELVES, AND HOW THE POSTER IS DESIGNED.
Never transfer the reference person's identity onto the user.
Never use the user's source-photo smile, gaze, head angle, or pose if they differ from the reference.
Preserve the user's recognizable face exactly while reconstructing the reference's calm expression, gaze, head position, body pose, traditional editorial styling, grayscale treatment, red background, inset detail boxes, typography, framing, and overall creative-poster composition.
Final result: an identity-preserved version of the reference poster in which the uploaded person replaces the reference subject while retaining their own unmistakable identity.