Urban Editorial Red Collage

Use the uploaded photo as the **sole source of the subject’s identity**. Preserve the person’s exact recognizable facial identity, facial structure, proportions, skin tone, natural skin texture, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips, cheeks, jawline, chin, hairline, and distinctive facial characteristics. Do not copy or blend the reference subject’s identity into the user’s face. Do not beautify, feminize, masculinize, age, de-age, reshape, or otherwise redesign the user’s identity. The user must remain unmistakably the same person from their uploaded photo. The uploaded photo provides **identity only**; ignore its original facial expression, gaze, head angle, hairstyle, body pose, clothing, lighting, and background.
Recreate the reference image as a highly accurate editorial fashion collage with the user’s identity substituted into every appearance of the main subject. Create a vertical portrait composition approximately 2:3, with an off-white/cream outer background and four stacked rounded-rectangle photographic panels arranged vertically. The panels have large rounded corners and narrow cream-colored gaps between them. The main full-body subject overlaps the panels and extends across the center-right and lower portion of the entire composition, creating a layered magazine-editorial collage effect.
MAIN SUBJECT: Place the user’s identity as the dominant foreground subject, occupying the center-right of the composition from approximately the upper-middle area down toward the bottom edge. Use a medium-full to full-body framing. The body faces generally toward the camera with a relaxed, confident fashion-editorial posture. The subject stands with the torso slightly angled, shoulders relaxed, one arm hanging naturally while the other arm is bent slightly near the waist/hip. The hands and arms should follow the reference pose precisely. The head is held slightly tilted and turned according to the reference, with a calm, composed, mildly serious fashion expression. Reconstruct the reference subject’s exact facial expression rather than using the expression from the uploaded identity photo: relaxed lips, subtle neutral/serious mood, soft confident demeanor, natural eyelids, and restrained editorial attitude. The eyes must follow the reference gaze direction, looking slightly away from the camera rather than adopting the source photo’s gaze. Preserve the reference head rotation, chin position, neck angle, and eye direction.
CLOTHING: Recreate the foreground outfit from the reference: an oversized deep-red button-up shirt with a relaxed fit, long sleeves casually rolled or pushed toward the forearms, naturally loose fabric, visible buttons and realistic folds. Pair it with oversized loose black cargo-style pants featuring wide legs and visible utility pockets/details. Add a black shoulder/crossbody-style bag hanging along the subject’s side/back as visible in the reference. Include a simple delicate necklace, small hoop earrings, and a metallic wristwatch on the wrist visible in the reference. Keep accessories realistic and proportionate. Do not let clothing or accessories alter the user’s facial identity.
HAIR: Recreate the reference hairstyle and overall hair arrangement while keeping the user’s recognizable hairline and identity. Use long, naturally voluminous, slightly tousled dark hair with loose strands framing the face and an effortless editorial texture. Hair should fall naturally over and around the shoulders and upper torso, with realistic individual strands and subtle movement. If the user’s natural hair characteristics differ, adapt the styling to the reference without changing their identity.
COLLAGE PANELS: Behind the main foreground subject, create four horizontal rounded-rectangle panels stacked from top to bottom. Each panel contains a monochrome or near-monochrome fashion photograph of the same user identity, while the foreground central figure remains the dominant full-color subject. Preserve the exact panel arrangement, proportions, spacing, overlap, and rounded corners from the reference.
TOP PANEL: A black-and-white close/medium portrait of the user with long tousled hair, wearing dark clothing and narrow black sunglasses. The head is turned slightly toward the side, chin subtly raised, with a calm, distant editorial expression. The subject looks away from the camera in the same direction as the reference. Use strong directional sunlight and deep architectural shadows across a concrete/urban wall background.
SECOND PANEL: A black-and-white medium portrait of the user in a dark oversized sweater/jacket. The subject rests one cheek/chin against one hand, with the elbow supported below the frame. Recreate the thoughtful, slightly melancholic expression, relaxed eyelids, subtle closed/neutral lips, and exact sideways gaze from the reference. Keep the hair loose and naturally framing the face. Use a textured concrete architectural background with soft daylight and moderate contrast.
THIRD PANEL: A black-and-white fashion portrait of the user wearing dark clothing and narrow sunglasses. Recreate the reference’s slightly upward/sideways head orientation, chin angle, sunglasses position, relaxed lips, and distant gaze. The pose should feel candid and effortlessly stylish. Use a softly blurred urban/concrete background with directional sunlight and strong light-and-shadow separation.
BOTTOM PANEL: A black-and-white seated/crouched fashion portrait of the user wearing an oversized dark hoodie or sweatshirt. Recreate the reference’s compact seated posture, arms positioned naturally in front of the body, head turned slightly toward the side, and calm contemplative expression. The gaze should remain directed away from the camera exactly as in the reference. Use an urban architectural background with subtle railings/concrete details and natural daylight.
BACKGROUND/ENVIRONMENT: The setting is a minimalist urban architectural environment dominated by concrete walls, dark gray surfaces, windows/structural edges, and hard geometric shadows. Keep the environment understated so the subject remains the focus. The upper and background panels are predominantly grayscale, with realistic concrete texture and subtle tonal variation. The main foreground subject remains in natural color, with the red shirt as the strongest color accent and black pants/bag providing contrast.
LIGHTING: Reproduce the reference’s natural outdoor daylight with strong directional sunlight. Use hard-edged architectural shadows in the background, soft but realistic facial illumination, subtle highlights on hair and skin, and controlled contrast. The monochrome panels should have rich black, gray, and white tonal separation without crushed facial detail. The foreground color subject should retain realistic skin tones and deep red fabric while matching the lighting direction and shadow behavior of the reference.
CAMERA & PERSPECTIVE: Match the reference’s editorial photography perspective. Use an eye-level to slightly elevated camera position, natural perspective similar to approximately a 50mm lens, with no exaggerated wide-angle distortion. Maintain the same camera distance, framing, subject scale, cropping, and spatial relationships. The main subject should be sharply detailed while background elements have subtle depth separation. Preserve realistic anatomy, natural proportions, accurate hands and fingers, realistic fabric folds, and believable body geometry.
COMPOSITION: Match the reference layout precisely: cream outer margin, four stacked rounded rectangular grayscale panels, narrow horizontal cream separators, and the large full-color foreground subject overlapping the panels from the central-right area downward. The foreground subject should visually connect all four panels without looking pasted on. Maintain the same visual hierarchy, panel heights, corner radii, overlap, negative space, and vertical balance. Do not introduce additional people, text, logos, watermarks, captions, borders, or unrelated objects.
VISUAL STYLE: Premium contemporary fashion-editorial photography, sophisticated monochrome collage, realistic photographic detail, subtle film-like tonal rendering, natural skin texture, realistic hair strands, authentic fabric texture, restrained color grading, high dynamic range, crisp but not artificially sharpened, cinematic natural light, sophisticated street-fashion aesthetic. The final result must look like one professionally art-directed editorial collage rather than four unrelated images assembled together.
CRITICAL IDENTITY/EXPRESSION RULE: The user’s uploaded photo determines **WHO the person is**. The reference determines **HOW that person appears in the scene**. Preserve the user’s exact identity in every panel and in the foreground figure, but reconstruct the reference’s expressions, emotions, eye direction, head rotations, chin positions, poses, clothing, styling, composition, lighting, and environment. Never transfer the reference person’s facial identity. Never allow the user’s original expression, gaze, or head pose to override the reference. Ensure all repeated appearances remain the same recognizable user identity with consistent facial features. Final image must closely reproduce the reference composition while replacing only the reference person’s identity with the identity from the uploaded photo.

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