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Vintage Café Girl Aesthetic ☕🖤
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The complete prompt
Create a highly realistic cinematic indoor portrait based on the reference image. Use my uploaded photo as the ONLY identity reference for my face. Preserve my face exactly as it appears in my photo — same face shape, eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips, jawline, skin tone, natural proportions, and recognizable features. Do NOT copy the reference woman's face. Change ONLY the face/identity to mine while keeping the composition, pose, hairstyle, clothing, lighting, background, camera perspective, and filter as close to the reference as possible.
COMPOSITION: Vertical 4:5 portrait, intimate seated café/restaurant photograph. The woman sits at a dark wooden table, centered slightly toward the right. Her upper body is visible with generous background space filled by vintage framed artwork.
POSE: She sits comfortably facing the camera. One elbow rests naturally on the table and her hand supports the side of her cheek. Her head tilts gently toward that hand. She looks directly toward the camera with a soft, relaxed closed-mouth smile. The pose should feel candid and effortless.
HAIR: Medium-to-long dark black/brown hair, naturally loose with soft slightly messy waves. A few delicate strands fall naturally across the forehead and around the face. Keep realistic individual hair strands and natural volume.
OUTFIT: Minimalist black sleeveless top/dress with a simple elegant silhouette and subtle V-shaped neckline. Keep the fabric matte and realistic, with natural folds and shadows. No unnecessary accessories.
BACKGROUND: Recreate the distinctive cozy vintage café interior:
Deep warm burgundy/dark-red wall
Numerous framed vintage Japanese-style cat and retro poster artworks
Different frame sizes arranged organically across the wall
Warm brown, red, cream, and muted orange artwork tones
Dark wooden furniture and intimate restaurant atmosphere
Strong nostalgic retro aesthetic
Keep the framed artwork visually detailed but slightly softened by depth of field. The overall background should feel authentic and lived-in rather than digitally generated.
TABLE / FOREGROUND: Dark polished wooden tabletop occupying the lower portion of the image. Include a simple transparent glass containing a dark non-alcoholic beverage, positioned in the lower-left foreground, with realistic reflections and subtle transparency. Keep it secondary to the portrait.
LIGHTING: Warm, low-key indoor ambient lighting with a soft warm key light illuminating the woman's face and shoulders. Gentle highlights on the cheeks, nose, lips, and hair. Deep but natural shadows around the background and lower body. Create an intimate evening café mood without harsh studio lighting.
COLOR / FILTER: Match the reference's warm vintage cinematic filter:
Rich amber and brown tones
Deep burgundy/red background
Warm natural skin tones
Slightly muted colors
Soft contrast
Subtle orange glow
Fine analog film grain
Slightly faded vintage-photo character
Gentle softness rather than ultra-sharp digital rendering
The result should feel like an authentic nostalgic 35mm film photograph, not an AI-rendered image.
CAMERA: Professional low-light portrait photography, approximately 50mm lens perspective, eye-level camera, shallow depth of field, realistic background falloff, natural skin texture, realistic hair, authentic hands and fingers, subtle film grain, detailed but softly rendered.
MOOD: Quiet, cozy, intimate, sophisticated, nostalgic café atmosphere. Natural expression rather than an exaggerated pose.
IDENTITY — CRITICAL: My uploaded face controls the face ONLY. Preserve my exact identity in the new portrait. Do not reshape, beautify, slim, enlarge, smooth, or reinterpret my face. Keep my natural eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips, cheeks, jawline, face shape, skin tone, and facial proportions unmistakably mine.
Negative prompt: reference woman's face, different face, generic AI face, altered identity, face-swap artifacts, changed facial structure, different eyes, different nose, different lips, altered skin tone, excessive beauty filter, plastic skin, over-smoothed skin, distorted hands, extra fingers, malformed anatomy, incorrect pose, incorrect hairstyle, bright modern lighting, HDR, oversaturation, CGI, cartoon, extra people, text, watermark, logo.Copy the complete prompt and use your own reference photos where requested.
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