Dark Blue Animal Portrait
Photography · Animal · Dark
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.
A close animal portrait lit almost entirely from behind and one side by a cold blue source, so the outline of the head glows and the face itself falls into deep shadow. Pure black background with nothing in it, one small bright highlight in the eye, the rim picked out hair by hair against the dark. Sharp, quiet, no colour other than the blue light and the black.
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
Download the examplesSend 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
- 1536 x 1024
- Quality
- High
- Background
- Opaque
- Output
- PNG
Tips
- 1Backlight, not front light. The glowing outline is the picture.
- 2One catchlight in the eye keeps it alive.
- 3Pure black behind. Any detail there ruins the separation.
Things to try
Warm rim
amber instead of blue
Two lights
a faint fill on the face
Bird
feathers instead of fur
Wider
the whole animal in frame
Human
the same lighting on a person
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