Prompting

20 AI Photo Style Prompts That Keep the Person in the Photo

The exact prompts to turn one photo into twenty finished looks, without losing the person in it.

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21prompts to copy
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One formula, twenty fillings

Every prompt in this guide is the same four part instruction with a different middle. Learn the shape once and you can write your own styles for the rest of your life.

THE SHAPE OF EVERY PROMPT
1. WHAT TO DO. Restyle this photograph as [STYLE].
2. THE MATERIAL. What the subject is now physically made of, how
light behaves on it, what the surface does.
3. THE ERA. The medium, decade or process that produced this look.
4. WHAT TO KEEP. Keep the subject, pose, framing and composition
exactly as they are. Do not change the face.

Part 4 is the one people leave out, and it is why their results come back as a different person wearing the same jacket. Say it every time, in those words, even when the model seems to be behaving.

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