{
"subject": "the uploaded group photo, exactly as it is, except that the person who blinked now has their eyes OPEN. In the example photo, four adults side by side, arms around each other's shoulders, smiling at the camera; the person who blinked is the second from the left from the point of view of someone looking at the photo, a woman of about 35, with wavy brown shoulder-length hair with lighter highlights, small gold hoop earrings, a thin necklace and an olive-green linen blouse. Her eyes open dark brown and almond-shaped, the same size as each other, looking at the camera like the other three. The other three stay as they are, from left to right for the person looking at the photo: on the far left, a man of about 60, bald, with a gray beard and a navy-blue polo shirt; right after her, an older woman of about 60 with short gray hair, red-framed glasses and a white dress with tiny flowers; and, on the far right, a young man of about 25 with curly black hair and a white T-shirt. Mandatory preservation: all four faces stay the same as in the uploaded photo; don't make anyone look younger, don't smooth the skin, don't slim the face and don't change anyone's features",
"action": "the only edit is opening the eyes of the person who blinked, as if the photo had been taken half a second later: the upper eyelids lift and show the whole iris, with a little of the white on both sides, the upper lashes curl outward and the lower eyelids stay slightly squeezed by the smile. The smile lines at the corners of the eyes stay where they were, the eyebrows don't rise and the mouth doesn't change: it is the same smile, showing teeth. No one else changes expression, pose or position, and anyone whose eyes were already open keeps the same eyes",
"scene": "Sunday lunch on the veranda of a house, at noon: red clay tile floor, a roof of dark wooden beams, white pillars, a red and yellow striped hammock hanging in the background, a large monstera in a pot on the left and a hanging gourd planter on the pillar on the right; behind the group, a long table with a white tablecloth, serving dishes, a red pot and wooden chairs; in the background, the green, sunny backyard, with trees and a white wall",
"composition": "the SAME framing as the uploaded photo, no zooming in, no zooming out, no cropping and no rotating: vertical 3:4 ratio, the four of them from the waist up filling the entire width, the man and the young man cut off by the edges at each end; the heads in a band between one fifth and one half of the height, the young man's the highest and the older woman's the lowest; the veranda and the backyard in the top third",
"camera": "a phone held by someone standing, at eye level, about 5 feet from the group, the phone's wide-angle lens, everything in focus from the group to the background",
"lighting": "natural midday light, diffused, coming from the backyard: the background much brighter, the faces in the soft shade of the veranda, no flash; in the eyes that opened, a small catchlight from the backyard light, on the same side and the same size as the catchlight in the other three's eyes",
"color_palette": "the colors of a phone photo, uncorrected: green of the backyard and the linen, navy blue of the polo, white of the T-shirt and the tablecloth, red of the tiles, the glasses frames and the pot, warm, natural skin tones",
"style": "real phone photo of a family lunch. It is NOT retouching or restoration: no one gets sharper, younger, more made-up or more smiley, only the eyes of the person who blinked open",
"materials": "light phone grain evenly across the whole photo, including the edited eyes; skin with pores, expression lines and spots as in the uploaded photo; the wrinkled linen of the green blouse",
"details": "the proof of the edit: her eyes open, with both irises the same size, looking into the lens, and the catchlight on the same side as the others'; the eyes, faces and clothes of the other three, compared with the uploaded photo, unchanged; the older woman's red frames with the same shape and in the same place",
"negative_prompt": "closed eyes, half-closed eyes, averted gaze, eyes of different sizes, irises of different colors, wide-open staring eyes, raised eyebrow, different smile, another person with a new expression, altered face, identity swap, rejuvenation, smoothed skin, new makeup, sharper photo, restored photo, corrected colors, different framing, zoom, cropping, new person, removed person, text, watermark, logo, AI artifacts, deformed hands"
}
How to use
Every good group photo has someone with their eyes closed, and asking an AI to "open the eyes" usually returns a different photo: smoother skin, younger faces, another smile. This prompt opens only the eyes of the person who blinked, as if the photo had been taken half a second later, and leaves the rest untouched, from the other faces to the phone grain. Works in ChatGPT, Gemini and NanoBanana.
1. Upload the whole photo, uncropped, at the highest resolution you have.
2. Replace the `subject` with your group and say who blinked by position: "the second from the left".
3. Write that person's eye color and shape: the photo doesn't show them, and the AI makes them up.
4. Zoom in on the edited eyes: both irises the same size, looking at the camera.
5. Compare the other faces with the original photo before sending it to the family.
Tip: if you have another photo of that person with eyes open, upload it too as a color and shape reference.
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