Digital Collage Portrait

Editorial · Collage · Portrait

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Shapes over the portrait·Nano Banana Pro
Wide crop·Seedream 4.5
Square version·Seedream 4.5
Vertical 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.

This recipe describes a treatment rather than a thing. Put your own subject in and it is added to the end of the prompt.

Prompt

A contemporary editorial collage: a soft muted photographic portrait on a plain flat grey ground, with several smooth organic shapes in one warm accent colour laid across it, covering part of an arm and a shoulder. The shapes are cleanly cut with no texture or shadow, sitting flat on top of the photograph. Composed and designed rather than damaged. No lettering. Subject: a seated woman in a pale blue shirt.

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
1536 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Cover parts of the body, not the face. It stays a portrait that way.
  • 2One accent colour. Two makes it decorative.
  • 3Flat shapes with no shadow. Any depth ruins the collage logic.

Things to try

Cool accent

blue shapes instead

Full figure

the same treatment at length

Paper shapes

torn edges rather than smooth

More shapes

the figure half covered

Black shapes

a graphic monochrome version

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