Grain Fashion Portrait

Fashion · Fashion · Grain

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Straw hat and beads·Nano Banana Pro
Square crop·Seedream 4.5
Vertical portrait·Seedream 4.5
Wide crop·Seedream 4.5
Detail of the grain·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 fashion portrait shot on grainy colour film: a person in a wide woven straw hat and heavy orange bead necklace, seen in profile against deep shadow. A single hard light from the side rakes across the straw and the knit so both read as texture, half the frame falling into darkness. Rich but slightly muted colour, heavy visible grain throughout, still unsmiling pose.

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

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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

  • 1Rake the light across the textures rather than lighting the face flat.
  • 2Heavy grain is doing real work here, not a finishing touch.
  • 3Let half the frame go dark.

Things to try

Black and white

the same lighting in monochrome grain

Full length

the whole outfit against a plain wall

Two subjects

a pair lit by the same hard source

Studio backdrop

a paper backdrop instead of shadow

Colder

a blue cast with one warm accent

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