Blurred Colour Photo

Photography · Blur · Motion

Download examples
Figure smeared into colour·Nano Banana Pro
Square crop·Seedream 4.5
Vertical blur·Seedream 4.5
Wide frame·Seedream 4.5
Cooler version·Seedream 4.5

Recipe

The examples above were generated with Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 4.5. The recipes below are written for GPT Image and Flux, so treat the settings as a starting point rather than the exact run.

A description in plain sentences. This is the version to start with, and it works on any current image model. Settings below are the ones we used on GPT Image; treat them as a starting point.

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the highlighted part of the prompt changes.

Prompt

A photograph of a person taken with a long exposure while the camera moved, smearing them into vertical bands of warm colour. Shapes just readable: one contour, the line of an edge, a bright window behind. Nothing sharp anywhere, highlights slightly blown, warm pink and amber dominating with a cool patch at one edge. Grainy 35mm film, no digital sharpening.

The prompt gets you close. Feed one of the examples in as a style reference for the rest. Download the images

Use the examples as a reference

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Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.

Settings on GPT Image

Size
1024 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Say nothing is sharp anywhere. A single crisp area ruins it.
  • 2Keep one shape just readable so it stays a photograph rather than an abstract.
  • 3Long exposure and camera movement, not a blur filter.

Things to try

Cool version

blues and greens instead of warm tones

Street

traffic and signage smeared at night

Two figures

overlapping smears of two people

Vertical drag

the movement strictly up and down

Rain on glass

the blur coming from water rather than motion

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