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Cinematic Five-Panel Portrait Collage

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USER PHOTO = WHO THE PERSON IS; REFERENCE IMAGE = HOW THAT PERSON LOOKS AND ACTS. Use the uploaded user photo as the ONLY source of the subject’s identity. Preserve the user’s exact recognizable facial identity, facial structure, proportions, face shape, forehead, hairline, eyebrows, natural eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, cheeks, cheekbones, jawline, chin, skin tone, skin texture, and all distinctive facial characteristics. Do not copy or blend the reference subject’s identity or facial features into the user. Do not beautify, reshape, slim, masculinize, feminize, age, de-age, or reinterpret the user’s face. The final person must remain unmistakably the person from the uploaded user photo. Recreate the reference as a vertical five-panel cinematic photographic portrait collage, with five separate horizontal close-up frames stacked from top to bottom, each showing the same user identity in a different intimate pose and expression. Keep the five panels visually consistent, with subtle thin dark separations between them and a cohesive dark, moody photographic atmosphere. PANEL 1: Extreme close-up of the subject’s face, filling most of the horizontal frame. Head angled slightly upward and turned subtly toward one side, while the eyes look upward and off to the side rather than directly into the camera. Expression is soft, thoughtful, calm, and slightly dreamy, with relaxed lips and a natural, understated emotional look. A small section of blue clothing with delicate gold floral motifs appears near the lower/right edge. Hair is loose and naturally framing the face. PANEL 2: Tight side-profile close-up, with the head turned strongly toward the right side of the frame. The subject rests one raised hand/forearm near the forehead or temple, creating a relaxed, contemplative pose. Eyes look toward the right and slightly downward, away from the camera. Expression remains quiet, introspective, and natural. Show delicate traditional-style earrings and multiple thin metallic/bangle bracelets on the raised wrist. The same blue fabric with small gold floral detailing is visible around the shoulder. PANEL 3: Intimate tilted close-up, with the subject’s head leaning diagonally across the frame and the face rotated toward the camera. Eyes look directly toward the camera with a gentle, emotionally engaging gaze. Expression is soft and subtly affectionate, with relaxed lips and a very slight natural smile. Loose hair partially surrounds the face. Maintain realistic skin texture and delicate facial highlights. PANEL 4: Close-up portrait with the subject facing the camera at a slight diagonal angle. One hand is raised near the mouth and partially covers the lower face, with fingers positioned naturally across the lips/cheek area. A simple thin ring is visible on one finger. Eyes look directly toward the camera with a soft, intimate, slightly playful but restrained expression. Keep the pose elegant and natural, not exaggerated. PANEL 5: Close-up resting pose, with the subject’s head tilted downward and resting gently against the raised forearm/wrist. Eyes are closed, expression peaceful and relaxed, with a subtle contented smile. The same bangles/bracelets and blue fabric with gold floral motifs are visible. Hair falls naturally around the face. The overall impression should be calm, tender, intimate, and cinematic. CLOTHING: Recreate the reference styling as closely as possible: rich deep/medium blue traditional fabric with small delicate gold floral motifs, visible mainly around the shoulders and edges of the close-up frames. Include the small traditional earrings and thin stacked bangles where visible in the reference. Keep accessories secondary to the face. HAIR: Use the user’s own natural hair identity and characteristics, but arrange it in the loose, softly tousled, face-framing manner seen in the reference. Do not replace the user’s hairline or identity. LIGHTING: Soft cinematic low-key lighting with warm skin highlights and cool/dark surrounding tones. Use directional window-like illumination falling across the face, creating gentle highlights on the forehead, nose, cheekbones, lips, and eyelids while leaving portions of the background and hair in soft shadow. Maintain subtle warm/cool contrast, realistic skin luminosity, delicate shadow transitions, and natural specular highlights. BACKGROUND: Dark, subdued, minimal interior-like background with no distracting objects. Keep the environment intentionally blurred and atmospheric so the face remains the dominant visual element. CAMERA: Very close portrait photography, approximately 70–100mm equivalent portrait-lens perspective, shallow depth of field, natural facial proportions, intimate camera distance, realistic perspective, soft background separation, high-detail skin and hair rendering. Each panel should feel like a frame captured from the same cinematic portrait session. COMPOSITION: Vertical 9:16 overall canvas. Divide the image into five horizontally stacked panels of approximately equal height. Each panel is a tight crop and uses a distinct head angle, gaze, hand position, and expression exactly as described above. Preserve the reference’s collage structure rather than turning it into one continuous portrait. Ensure faces and important facial features are not accidentally cut off beyond the intentional close framing. Maintain consistent identity across all five panels. PHOTOGRAPHIC STYLE: photorealistic, cinematic editorial portrait photography, intimate beauty-film stills, realistic skin pores and texture, natural hair strands, subtle filmic softness, refined tonal range, shallow depth of field, understated color grading, soft contrast, realistic highlights and shadows, premium high-resolution photography. Do not make the result look like an illustration, painting, CGI, plastic beauty render, or artificial AI portrait. CRITICAL IDENTITY/EXPRESSION RULE: the uploaded user photo determines ONLY WHO the person is; the reference determines HOW that person looks in each panel. Never transfer the reference person’s identity, facial structure, or distinctive features. Override the user photo’s original expression, gaze, head angle, and pose with the corresponding expressions, gazes, head positions, and poses described from the reference. Preserve the user’s identity consistently across all five frames. Avoid duplicated poses, inconsistent facial identity, altered facial proportions, extra fingers, malformed hands, distorted jewelry, unnatural eyes, excessive makeup, over-smoothed skin, or accidental changes in gender or age. The final result must closely reproduce the reference image’s five-panel composition, intimate mood, styling, lighting, camera perspective, poses, expressions, and visual atmosphere while unmistakably preserving the identity of the person in the uploaded user photo.

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