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Surreal Vintage TV Portrait with Reference Image Lock

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Sep 18, 2026

Surreal Vintage TV Portrait with Reference Image Lock A comprehensive image generation prompt for creating a surreal editorial portrait where the subject's head is replaced with a vintage CRT television displaying their face, with detailed specifications for design, lighting, and composition.

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REFERENCE IMAGE LOCK - UNIVERSAL IDENTITY & APPEARANCE PRESERVATION Use the uploaded reference image as the PRIMARY and HIGHEST-PRIORITY VISUAL REFERENCE for the subject. The reference image may contain ANY PERSON: Male or female, of any age, ethnicity, skin tone, hairstyle, facial structure, or physical appearance. IMPORTANT: Recreate the SAME PERSON from the uploaded reference image. Preserve their recognizable facial identity, natural facial proportions, skin tone, hairstyle, and overall appearance. Do not replace the person with a different individual. Do not automatically change the subject's gender, facial structure, or defining features. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONCEPT: SURREAL VINTAGE TV PORTRAIT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Create a premium, photorealistic surreal editorial portrait of the SAME PERSON from the uploaded reference image. The subject is standing upright, facing the camera, in a centered medium shot from the chest upward. Replace the subject's head with a large, authentic vintage CRT television set. The vintage television must be positioned naturally where the person's head would be, creating an artistic surreal transformation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TELEVISION DESIGN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A classic 1970s–1980s vintage CRT television. Retro olive-green and warm beige plastic body. Rounded rectangular television frame. Thick black screen bezel. Two large circular tuning knobs on the right side. Detailed horizontal speaker grille beneath the knobs. Subtle vintage plastic texture. Realistic reflections on the glass screen. Authentic retro industrial design. The television should appear physically connected to the subject's neck and shoulders. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FACE DISPLAY ON SCREEN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Display the SAME PERSON'S face from the reference image inside the television screen. The face should be rendered as a beautiful, cinematic, photorealistic close-up. Preserve the person's actual: - Facial identity - Face shape - Eyes - Nose - Lips - Skin tone - Hairstyle - Distinctive facial characteristics The subject's eyes are gently closed, creating a calm, dreamy, artistic expression. Soft natural skin texture. Subtle rosy cheeks. Natural lips. Soft cinematic lighting. IMPORTANT: The face displayed on the TV screen must belong to the SAME PERSON from the uploaded reference image. The gender, hairstyle, and facial characteristics must adapt naturally to the uploaded person. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CLOTHING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The subject wears a loose, stylish vintage-inspired button-up shirt. Use a soft pastel color palette featuring pink, yellow, lavender, cream, and subtle abstract retro patterns. The shirt should look fashionable, artistic, and slightly nostalgic. Adapt the clothing naturally to the subject's appearance while maintaining the overall visual style. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BACKGROUND & COMPOSITION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Bright blue retro technical grid background. Fine white graph-paper grid lines extending across the entire background. Floating colorful gemstones and geometric star-shaped objects around the subject. Include: - Transparent crystal gemstone - Pink gemstone - Orange star-shaped object - Light blue star - Purple crystal - Small floating decorative shapes Balanced spacing and artistic composition. The subject must remain centered in the frame. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LIGHTING & VISUAL STYLE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Premium surreal editorial photography. Soft diffused studio lighting. Warm highlights on the vintage television. Subtle shadows and realistic depth. Beautiful pastel color grading. Slight nostalgic film aesthetic. Clean, high-end commercial image quality. Create a harmonious blend of: - Surrealism - Retro television aesthetics - Fashion editorial photography - Dreamlike visual storytelling - Contemporary AI art The final result should look like a professionally photographed surreal fashion artwork, not a basic cartoon or low-quality AI image. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CAMERA & OUTPUT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Centered medium portrait composition. Chest-up framing. Straight-on camera angle. Balanced symmetrical composition. Sharp focus on the television and displayed face. Realistic material details. High dynamic range. Premium cinematic image quality. RESOLUTION LOCK: Generate final images in 16K resolution - 15360 Γ— 8640 pixels (β‰ˆ132.7 million pixels), 16:9 aspect ratio. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL INSTRUCTION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Create a visually stunning surreal vintage television portrait using the uploaded reference image. The uploaded person is the central identity reference. Whether the reference image contains a male or female subject, preserve that person's recognizable identity and adapt the scene naturally to their appearance. Do not add text, logos, watermarks, or unnecessary objects.

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