Dreamy Maroon Traditional Portrait Collage

Use the uploaded user photo as the **ONLY source of the main subject’s identity and facial appearance**. Preserve the user’s exact recognizable identity with maximum fidelity: facial structure and proportions, face shape, forehead, eyebrows, natural eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, mouth structure, cheeks, cheekbones, jawline, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, hairline, and all distinctive facial characteristics. **Do not copy the reference person’s identity. Do not replace, redesign, beautify, feminize, masculinize, slim, age, de-age, or otherwise reinterpret the user’s face. The user must remain unmistakably themselves.**
Recreate the reference image as a vertical cinematic photographic collage featuring **the same user identity appearing three times within one cohesive composition**, with the reference controlling the poses, expressions, gaze, clothing, styling, environment, lighting, framing, and visual arrangement. The three appearances should clearly represent the same person, maintaining identical facial identity throughout.
**UPPER/MAIN COLLAGE:** Create two large overlapping photographic portraits of the subject occupying most of the upper and middle portion of the frame. On the left, show the subject in a close three-quarter/side-oriented portrait, body angled slightly away while the face turns toward the right, with the head subtly tilted and the eyes directed toward the other appearance rather than toward the camera. Reproduce the reference’s genuine joyful expression: a broad natural smile with visible teeth, slightly narrowed smiling eyes, relaxed cheeks, and an affectionate, playful emotional mood. On the right, show another large portrait of the same subject turned toward the left, creating the visual impression that the two versions are looking and smiling at one another. Match the reference head rotation, neck position, eye direction, smile, cheek movement, and relaxed posture as closely as possible. These two large portraits should overlap naturally, creating a layered double-portrait effect rather than looking like separate unrelated photographs.
**LOWER PORTRAIT:** In the lower center, place a smaller medium-to-medium-full portrait of the same user standing in front of the stone/brick wall. The body faces generally toward the camera with a relaxed upright posture, shoulders naturally lowered, arms positioned comfortably in front of the body with the hands gently together near the waist. The head is slightly lowered and tilted downward, with the eyes looking down rather than at the camera. Reproduce the reference’s soft, shy, peaceful smile and modest downward gaze. The expression should be warm and serene, not a direct-camera smile. Preserve the exact emotional character and facial behavior of the reference while retaining the user’s own identity.
**CLOTHING & STYLING:** Recreate the reference styling: an elegant deep maroon/burgundy traditional South Asian outfit with rich red tones and subtle gold embroidery or gold-bordered detailing. Include a matching maroon dupatta/scarf draped naturally around the shoulders and upper body. Add small traditional gold jhumka-style earrings and understated traditional styling. Hair should follow the reference’s general arrangement: long dark hair gathered naturally toward the back with a center or near-center part and a few loose strands framing the face. Adapt hairstyle only as necessary to the user’s natural hair characteristics while preserving the user’s identity and recognizable hairline.
**ENVIRONMENT:** Recreate the outdoor setting with a softly blurred pale stone/concrete background, greenery visible toward the upper background, and a rustic gray-brown brick/stone wall running horizontally behind the lower subject. The background should remain understated and photographic, providing depth without distracting from the portraits. Include softly blurred deep-red flowers in the lower-left foreground, partially overlapping the bottom edge of the composition.
**COMPOSITION:** Match the reference’s vertical 9:16 composition. The two large upper portraits dominate the frame, with one positioned left and one positioned right, their bodies and clothing merging naturally through soft photographic layering. The smaller full/medium portrait is centered in the lower section and appears visually integrated into the larger portraits. Preserve the original visual hierarchy, spacing, cropping, overlap, and proportions. Do not create a conventional single-person centered portrait.
**CAMERA & PERSPECTIVE:** Use realistic portrait photography with approximately a 50–85mm portrait-lens perspective for the large faces, natural facial proportions, moderate compression, and shallow depth of field. The large portraits should feel photographed from approximately eye level and relatively close to the subjects. The lower portrait should appear slightly farther from the camera while remaining clearly visible. Maintain realistic perspective and avoid wide-angle facial distortion.
**LIGHTING:** Reproduce warm natural outdoor daylight with soft directional illumination across the faces, gentle highlights on the skin and hair, subtle shadows defining facial contours, and a warm cinematic glow. Keep skin tones realistic and retain natural skin texture. Add delicate atmospheric haze and soft reddish-pink floating petal-like particles throughout the composition, especially around the lower half, without obscuring the face.
**VISUAL STYLE:** Photorealistic cinematic editorial photography, dreamy romantic atmosphere, soft film-like rendering, subtle photographic grain, warm maroon/red color palette, realistic fabric texture, natural skin detail, soft bloom, gentle atmospheric diffusion, layered double-exposure-inspired collage construction, refined depth of field, high detail, realistic lighting and physically believable shadows. The image should feel like an authentic artistic photographic collage rather than an AI-generated composite.
**CRITICAL IDENTITY/EXPRESSION RULE:** USER PHOTO = **WHO THE PERSON IS**. REFERENCE IMAGE = **HOW THE PERSON LOOKS, EXPRESSES, POSES, AND BEHAVES IN THIS SCENE**. Transfer the reference’s smiles, emotions, eye direction, head rotations, head tilts, body orientation, posture, hand placement, clothing, composition, environment, and photographic treatment, but never transfer the reference person’s facial identity. The user’s original source-photo expression, gaze, and pose must not override the reference. Preserve the user’s identity even when reconstructing the reference expressions and poses.
**NEGATIVE INSTRUCTIONS:** No identity replacement, no face swapping, no reference-person facial features, no facial redesign, no beautification, no altered jawline, nose, lips, eyes, cheeks, or face shape, no gender change, no exaggerated makeup, no plastic skin, no facial distortion, no duplicated facial features, no malformed hands, no extra fingers, no unnatural anatomy, no inconsistent identity between the three appearances, no artificial-looking collage seams, no excessive blur, no cartoon/anime appearance, no text, no lettering, no logos, no watermark, no signature, no captions, no borders.

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