Profile Picture for WhatsApp and Social

Profile Picture for WhatsApp and Social

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Prompt

{ "subject": "the person in the photo I uploaded, kept exactly as they are: same face, same head shape, same nose, same mouth, same eyes, same eyebrows, same hair and same skin tone. Do not make them younger, do not make them thinner, do not narrow the nose, do not change the eye colour, do not erase freckles, moles, scars or expression lines and do not swap the shape of any part of the face. The only thing that changes is the expression: an open, spontaneous smile showing the upper teeth, with the eyes smiling too and the gaze straight at the camera", "wardrobe": "a plain knit top with a ribbed crew neck, in matte terracotta, with no print, no writing and no logo; one small thin hoop earring in each ear", "composition": "a square image, in exactly 1:1, made to be seen inside a small circle. The head is large and fills about 65% of the height of the frame; the nose sits at the geometric centre of the image; the top of the hair almost touches the upper edge, leaving only a finger of air; the shoulders show only along the bottom, cropped by the lower edge; the four corners of the square hold nothing but background, because they will be cropped away by the round mask", "camera": "an 85 mm portrait lens, at eye level, straight on and with no distortion; the whole face in sharp focus, from hair to chin, and the background slightly out of focus", "lighting": "one single large, soft light source, in front and slightly above, like a wide window on an overcast day; the whole face lit evenly, a soft shadow under the chin and the nose, no hard shadow, no oily shine on the forehead and two small round highlights in the eyes", "scene": "a solid pale sage green background, with no object, no furniture, no door, no texture and no shadow cast on the wall, a little lighter behind the head and darkening slightly towards the edges, so the silhouette separates from the background", "color_palette": "pale sage green in the background, terracotta in the top, dark brown in the hair and warm tones in the skin; medium saturation and medium contrast, with no colour filter over the top", "style": "a natural, realistic portrait photograph, the kind a friend takes with a decent camera on an afternoon of soft light; true colours, nothing that looks computer generated and nothing like a corporate badge photo", "materials": "skin with the texture of real skin, with visible pores, freckles and expression lines kept; the knit of the top with its stitch on show; hair with defined curls, a matte sheen and loose strands around the outline", "details": "the large centred face, the margin of air above the hair, the shoulders cropped by the bottom edge, the four clean corners and the single colour background", "negative_prompt": "text, a letter, a number, a frame, a border, a circle drawn over the image, a watermark, a logo, a real brand, a likeness of a famous person, plastic smoothed skin, an eye with the colour swapped, a narrowed nose, a slimmed face, heavy make up added, a background with a scene or furniture, an object behind the head, a hard shadow on the wall, the top of the head cropped, a small distant face in the frame, a full body, AI artefacts, a deformed hand" }

How to use

A profile picture shows up the size of a coin, inside a circle, and that is where almost every good photo is lost: the face disappears and the round crop eats the hair. This prompt builds the right square, with a big face in the middle and the four corners empty on purpose. It works in ChatGPT, Gemini and NanoBanana. 1. Upload a photo of yourself facing the camera, with your face lit and no sunglasses. 2. Leave the subject block alone. It is what stops the generator making you younger and erasing your freckles. 3. Change the colour of the top in wardrobe and of the background in scene. A top and a wall in the same colour turn into one blur inside the circle. 4. Look at the result at fingernail size. If you do not recognise yourself at that size, the face came out too small. 5. Make two or three and pick by the expression, not by the sharpness. The smile is what makes someone open the conversation. Tip: keep the original square. WhatsApp, Instagram and email crop different circles, and the same file works in all three.

Works with ChatGPT Gemini NanoBanana

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