The prompt
{
"title": "The Midnight Informant",
"description": "A tense, film noir moment featuring a female private investigator waiting for a lead in a hazy, underground jazz club.",
"prompt": "You will perform an image edit using the person from the provided photo as the main subject. Preserve her core likeness. Transform the subject (female) into a sharp-witted 1950s private investigator seated in a booth at a dimly lit, smoke-filled jazz club. The image must be Ultra-Photorealistic and Movie-Quality, evoking the golden age of Film Noir. Use dramatic lighting to highlight skin texture and fabric details. Keywords: photorealistic, cinematic lighting, highly detailed, shot on Arri Alexa, depth of field, volumetric fog, realistic physics.",
"details": {
"year": "1954",
"genre": "Cinematic Photorealism",
"location": "The Velvet Note, a crowded, subterranean jazz lounge in Chicago with red velvet booths and a small stage in the hazy background.",
"lighting": [
"Chiaroscuro",
"Volumetric shafts of light cutting through smoke",
"Warm tungsten table lamps",
"Rim lighting on hair"
],
"camera_angle": "Eye-level medium close-up, shallow depth of field focusing strictly on the subject's eyes.",
"emotion": [
"Suspicious",
"Alert",
"Melancholic"
],
"color_palette": [
"Deep shadow black",
"Amber gold",
"Burgundy red",
"Tobacco brown"
],
"atmosphere": [
"Sultry",
"Mysterious",
"Claustrophobic",
"Noir"
],
"environmental_elements": "Thick swirls of cigarette smoke filling the air, a half-empty glass of amber whiskey on the table, blurred silhouette of a double bass player in the background.",
"subject1": {
"costume": "A structured beige trench coat worn over a dark cocktail dress, leather gloves, and a wide-brimmed fedora tilted slightly forward.",
"subject_expression": "A piercing, guarded gaze, eyes scanning the room, lips pressed in a tight line.",
"subject_action": "One hand rests on a manila folder on the table, the other hovers near her whiskey glass."
},
"negative_prompt": {
"exclude_visuals": [
"daylight",
"modern technology",
"smartphones",
"casual clothing",
"bright sunshine",
"blue skies"
],
"exclude_styles": [
"cartoon",
"3D render",
"anime",
"sketch",
"impressionism",
"oversaturated"
],
"exclude_colors": [
"Neon green",
"Hot pink",
"Cyan"
],
"exclude_objects": [
"cars",
"weapons drawn",
"animals"
]
}
}
}
How to use this prompt
Copy the prompt above or click an "Open in" button to launch it directly in your preferred AI. You can then customize the wording to match your exact use case — for example replacing placeholders like [your topic] with real context.
Which AI model works best
These prompts are written for image-generation models (Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, DALL-E 3, Flux) — not chat LLMs. Copy them into your image tool. Midjourney v7 excels at photorealistic portraits; Stable Diffusion 3.5 is the best for fine-tuning and custom checkpoints; DALL-E 3 integrates seamlessly with ChatGPT.
How to customize this prompt
Keep the style descriptors and lighting keywords — these are what make the output consistent. Change the subject, background, and pose freely. Add or remove quality modifiers like "hyper-detailed", "cinematic lighting", "35mm film". For Stable Diffusion, use weight syntax: (keyword:1.3) to emphasize.
Common use cases
- Generating consistent social-media visuals at scale
- Creating hero images for blog posts or landing pages
- Producing concept art and mood boards for clients
- Generating product photography without a studio
- Crafting personal avatars and profile pictures
Variations
Adapt the tone (more casual, more technical), change the output format (bullet points vs. paragraphs), or add constraints (word limits, target audience).
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