Age Progression Portrait Grid Prompt

Study the person in the reference image and estimate their current age from the photo. Then create a single high-resolution image: a clean 2x3 grid of six photorealistic portraits of this exact same person, showing how they will age over the next 25 years in five-year steps. Panel 1 (top-left): the person at their current age, matching the reference photo's face precisely. Panel 2: five years older. Panel 3: ten years older. Panel 4: fifteen years older. Panel 5: twenty years older. Panel 6 (bottom-right): twenty-five years older. Identity lock: keep the person's core facial features exactly the same as the reference image in every panel - the same bone structure, eye shape and color, nose, mouth, ears, skin tone and identity. Each panel must be instantly recognizable as the same individual, only aged. Age each panel with realistic, gradual, scientifically grounded changes that compound step by step: skin texture slowly gaining fine lines around the eyes and mouth, then deeper expression lines, gradual softening of the jawline and slight loss of facial volume in later panels; hair gradually gaining scattered gray strands, then salt-and-pepper, then predominantly gray or white by the final panel, with a naturally maturing hairline appropriate to their gender; eyebrows thinning slightly with age; subtle age spots and thinner skin in the last two panels. Keep the changes between adjacent panels subtle and believable - the drama comes from comparing panel 1 to panel 6, not from any single jump. Every panel shares identical studio conditions for a clean scientific-timeline look: head-and-shoulders framing, the person facing the camera directly with a calm, warm, natural expression, soft even studio key light with gentle falloff, a plain dark charcoal background, sharp focus on the face, shot on an 85mm portrait lens. Clothing updates subtly across panels to age-appropriate simple dark tops. At the bottom of each panel, render a small clean label in white modern sans-serif type: Panel 1 reads "NOW", then "+5 YEARS", "+10 YEARS", "+15 YEARS", "+20 YEARS", "+25 YEARS" in order.