Begin with one visual objective
Before selecting a model, decide what the frame should communicate. Is it an editorial portrait, a stylized fantasy scene or a cinematic still? Mixing incompatible objectives creates contradictory prompts. Begin with one fictional adult subject and one setting, and describe the intended emotion or composition in ordinary language.
Five details worth specifying
- Adult subject: State a clear adult age such as 29 or 34. Describe styling and posture without referencing a real person.
- Setting: Name a concrete environment and time of day rather than a long list of incompatible locations.
- Camera: Give a practical distance, framing and viewing angle. A waist-up portrait is a different brief from a full-body vertical study.
- Light: Choose a primary light source, its direction and whether the mood is soft or dramatic.
- Medium: State realistic photograph, illustration or another coherent medium, then keep the rest consistent.
Review before adding detail
Inspect facial features, hand structure, background coherence, framing and unwanted text. If the composition is poor, revise the camera portion first; if the mood is wrong, adjust light and color. Changing every detail at once makes it difficult to know why the next result differs.
Respect the source boundary
A prompt-only image is not the same as editing someone’s photograph. Use an original fictional subject for text generation. For an uploaded source, verify ownership, adult age and explicit consent before processing it.