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Seaside Letter-Writing Couple Portrait
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Seaside Letter-Writing Couple Portrait

Create a soft seaside couple portrait with a handwritten letter, watercolor textures, coastal light, and preserved facial identity.

Prompt Content

Using the uploaded photo, create a photorealistic-to-painterly romantic seaside couple portrait built around a quiet letter-writing moment. KEEP - Preserve each person's exact facial identity from the uploaded photo. Keep forehead shape, eyebrow structure, eye shape and natural eye colour, nose proportions, lips, cheeks, jawline, chin, facial proportions, and natural asymmetry unchanged. Preserve the original skin tone and visible texture, including pores, fine lines, freckles, and natural marks. Keep the original hairline, hair density, hair texture, hairstyle pattern, and facial hair exactly as shown. Preserve each person's natural body proportions, shoulder width, neck length, arms, hands, fingers, and overall build. Keep both people separately recognizable without blending or replacing either face. CHANGE - Place the woman seated on a weathered natural-wood seaside bench, holding a cream paper handwritten letter with both hands. Position the man close beside her, leaning gently toward her with an affectionate relaxed posture. Dress the woman in a flowing muted sage-green linen dress with subtle fabric wrinkles. Dress the man in a soft cream cotton shirt with rolled sleeves and light brown trousers. Let coastal wind naturally move loose hair and fabric. SCENE - Set them beside a calm ocean during late afternoon. Place pale blue-grey water, a soft sandy shoreline, and a wide washed-out sky behind them. Keep distant details gently blurred rather than sharply rendered. LIGHT - Use soft side light from the left, around 4300K, with diffused coastal haze. Add gentle highlights along the faces and hair while keeping shadows soft and naturally connected to the bodies. CAMERA - Use an 85mm lens at f/2.8 from chest height, with moderate background compression and shallow depth of field. GRADE - Use faded pastel blue, cream, sage, and warm beige tones with low-to-medium contrast, fine ink contours, visible watercolor washes, subtle paper grain, and restrained editorial brush texture. OUTPUT - Create a vertical 4:5 composition at 2048 × 2560 pixels. DO NOT slim or reshape faces, whiten skin, change eye colour, add plastic smoothing, invent jewellery or tattoos, merge faces, alter body proportions, or replace the handwritten letter with text-heavy graphics.

Photo Guide

  • Use a sharp photo at least 1500px wide so facial texture survives watercolor detail.
  • Choose a front or three-quarter face angle with both eyes clearly visible.
  • Use soft daylight; harsh flash can fight the diffused coastal lighting.
  • Keep the hairline, shoulders, hands, and natural facial texture visible.
  • A breezy outdoor reference blends best with the seaside wind and soft palette.
  • Avoid sunglasses or heavy face shadows that hide the identity landmarks.

How to Build

  1. 1Open Gemini and choose image generation with the uploaded photo attached.
  2. 2Upload a clear photo showing the face, hairline, shoulders, and body proportions.
  3. 3Paste the full prompt without removing the KEEP section.
  4. 4Choose a 4:5 vertical output at the highest available resolution.
  5. 5Generate once, then inspect the face, hands, letter, and fabric movement.
  6. 6If the first result is wrong, regenerate with the same photo and prompt unchanged.

Pro Tips

  • Use a calm expression so the soft letter scene does not distort the mouth.
  • Keep both hands visible so the letter does not create extra fingers.
  • Choose linen or cotton clothing so watercolor folds remain believable.
  • Avoid busy backgrounds so the pale ocean stays softly separated.
  • Keep side lighting consistent so faces do not look pasted onto the scene.

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