Red Halo Vintage Editorial Portrait

USER PHOTO = WHO THE PERSON IS; REFERENCE IMAGE = HOW THAT PERSON APPEARS. Use the uploaded user photo as the ONLY source of identity. Preserve the user's exact recognizable facial identity, facial structure, proportions, face shape, forehead, eyebrows, natural eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, cheeks, cheekbones, jawline, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, hairline, and distinctive facial characteristics. Do not copy or recreate the reference subject's identity. Do not beautify, redesign, slim, reshape, feminize, masculinize, age, de-age, or otherwise reinterpret the user's face. The final person must unmistakably remain the person from the uploaded photo, regardless of any gender or appearance difference between the user and reference. Reconstruct the reference image as an identity-preserving stylized portrait, transferring the reference's expression, emotion, gaze, head position, pose, clothing, composition, lighting, colors, and artistic treatment onto the user's identity. SUBJECT AND POSE: Create a vertically framed portrait of the user positioned centrally and facing directly toward the camera. Show the head, neck, shoulders, upper chest, and torso down to approximately the lower chest/upper waist area. The shoulders are relaxed and nearly symmetrical, with the body facing forward. The head is held upright with a subtle upward lift of the chin, creating a slightly low-angle, confident portrait posture. Keep the neck elongated and naturally visible. No hands are visible. The subject occupies most of the frame while leaving a modest margin around the hair and shoulders. EXPRESSION AND GAZE: Completely ignore the user's original facial expression and gaze from the source photo. Recreate the reference expression on the user's face: calm, serious, introspective, slightly mysterious and quietly confident, with relaxed facial muscles. The eyes are open and directed straight toward the camera/viewer, with a steady, composed gaze. Eyebrows remain natural to the user's identity but adopt the relaxed positioning and emotional character of the reference. The mouth is gently parted, with relaxed lips and a subtle neutral-to-sensual expression rather than a smile. Do not exaggerate the lips or alter their natural structure. Maintain the reference's slightly raised chin and direct eye contact. HAIR AND STYLING: Recreate the reference's abundant, long, loose, wavy dark hair as a styling element while preserving the user's identity and natural hairline. Hair should frame both sides of the face, with soft irregular waves, loose strands, natural volume, and a slightly tousled editorial appearance. Do not use the reference person's facial features or identity. CLOTHING: Dress the user in a loose black collared shirt or lightweight black jacket with a soft structured collar, worn open at the upper chest. The garment is dark matte black with subtle folds, seams, pockets, and realistic fabric texture. Recreate the reference's open neckline without changing the user's body identity or proportions. Add a thin delicate necklace resting naturally against the upper chest, ending in a small simple circular pendant centered below the collarbone. BACKGROUND AND COMPOSITION: Recreate the distinctive graphic composition of the reference. Place a large warm cream/beige circular halo directly behind the user's head, centered approximately around the face and extending outward behind the hair. Surround the halo with a saturated deep red-orange painted background filling the entire vertical canvas. The halo should resemble a large imperfectly painted circle rather than a perfectly clean geometric shape, with subtle paper/brush texture. Keep the subject sharply separated from the background while allowing some hair strands to overlap the halo edges. CAMERA: Vertical 4:5 composition, portrait orientation. Medium close-up/upper-body framing, approximately chest-up, viewed from a slightly low camera angle with the lens positioned around lower face/chest height and aimed upward toward the subject. Use a natural portrait perspective similar to approximately 50–70mm full-frame equivalent, avoiding wide-angle distortion. Keep facial proportions natural and realistic. The face should be the primary focal point, centered horizontally and positioned slightly above the exact vertical midpoint. ART STYLE: Transform the scene into a highly detailed contemporary digital illustration/painted editorial portrait rather than a plain photograph. Use painterly yet precise facial rendering, visible fine brushwork, subtle line-art accents, controlled shading, softly textured skin, and slightly graphic poster-like edges. Preserve realistic facial anatomy and the user's actual identity beneath the stylization. The image should feel like a sophisticated vintage-inspired illustrated fashion poster with modern digital-painting quality. LIGHTING: Use soft frontal illumination on the face with gentle warm highlights across the forehead, nose, cheeks, lips, and neck, combined with subtle directional shadows beneath the chin, jaw, hair, and collar. Keep the face clearly readable and luminous against the darker hair and clothing. Use warm cinematic tones without overexposure. Add delicate atmospheric texture and restrained grain. COLOR PALETTE: Dominant saturated red-orange background, warm ivory/cream halo, natural warm skin tones, deep black hair and clothing, with muted metallic detail on the necklace pendant. Maintain strong graphic contrast between red, cream, skin, and black. TEXTURE AND DETAILS: Add subtle distressed print texture, faint scratches, fine vertical imperfections, worn-paint marks, tiny speckles, and vintage poster grain across the red background and image surface. Keep these effects artistic and controlled, never obscuring the face. The cream halo should contain faint paper-like texture and understated imperfections. FINAL IMAGE: Highly detailed, polished, atmospheric, elegant, mysterious, editorial, vintage poster-inspired portrait; sharp facial rendering with painterly texture; natural anatomy; strong centered composition; direct eye contact; slightly raised chin; gently parted lips; calm serious expression; long loose dark waves; black open-collar clothing; delicate pendant necklace; large cream circular halo; saturated red textured background; subtle distressed print finish; vertical 4:5 aspect ratio. NEGATIVE INSTRUCTIONS: Do not use the reference person's identity or facial features. Do not copy the user's original source-photo expression, gaze, head angle, or pose. Do not change the user's identity, gender, facial proportions, age, or distinctive characteristics. No smile, no exaggerated makeup, no distorted eyes, no altered nose, no enlarged lips, no artificial facial symmetry, no plastic skin, no extra jewelry, no extra people, no hands covering the body, no text, no logos, no watermark, no photorealistic background replacement, no unnecessary objects.

Copy the complete prompt and use your own reference photos where requested.