Dark Blue Animal Portrait

Photography · Animal · Dark

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Head against black
Wide crop
Square version
Vertical portrait

Recipe

GPT Image

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Updated 12 Aug 2026

Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the prompt updates.

Prompt

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.

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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.

Recommended settings

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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