Painted Overlay Portrait

Photography · Overlay · Paint

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Painted Overlay Portrait, A photograph with paint dragged across it until the two argue — Face behind painted petals·Nano Banana Pro

Recipe

The style is the recipe. The subject is yours.

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.

Make it yours

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

Prompt

A sharp photographic portrait of a person with their eyes closed, with thick painted marks laid over the top: petals, smears and impasto strokes in orange, cream and deep red that sit on the surface and partly cover the face. The paint keeps its own texture and hard edges, the photograph stays sharp underneath and shows through the gaps. Mixed media, physically painted on a print rather than digitally blended.

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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.