Vintage AI Portrait Collage Prompt – 4 Poses, 3:4 Format

Vintage AI Portrait Collage Prompt – 4 Poses, 3:4 Format

Four poses in one retro collage, with curly hair, black sunglasses and a clean minimalist feel. Use ChatGPT with a reference photo to make your version.

Prompt

Create a photorealistic, premium vintage editorial portrait collage using the following exact art direction.

FORMAT AND CANVAS:
Vertical Instagram portrait post, exact 3:4 aspect ratio, preferably 1536 × 2048 pixels. The entire design is a minimalist four-photo contact sheet mounted on a warm ivory, lightly textured paper background. The four photographs form a precise 2 × 2 grid, with equal-sized rectangular portrait panels, consistent alignment, narrow and even gaps, and generous cream-colored margins around the grid. The grid occupies approximately the central 65–70% of the canvas height, leaving noticeably generous empty ivory space above and especially below it.

SUBJECT:
One realistic adult person, male or female, appearing consistently in all four photographs. Preserve the same recognizable face, skin tone, hairstyle, facial proportions, accessories, and clothing across every panel. Natural, attractive, believable facial anatomy and realistic skin texture. The overall aesthetic is effortlessly cool, moody, understated, and fashion-editorial.

HAIRSTYLE AND ACCESSORIES:
Voluminous, dense, naturally curly dark hair with individual defined curls, a slightly tousled shape, and substantial volume around the forehead and sides. Black, narrow rectangular sunglasses with dark lenses in all four panels. Small understated ear jewelry if anatomically appropriate. Keep these details consistent throughout the collage.

WARDROBE:
A black, relaxed-fit, short-sleeved collared button-up shirt, slightly open at the neckline, with natural fabric folds and subtle texture. No visible logos, prints, or text. The same black shirt must appear in all four photographs. Adapt the clothing naturally for either gender while preserving the same visual styling.

PANEL 1 — TOP LEFT:
A close-up mirror-selfie portrait, framed from the upper chest to the head. The subject tilts their chin upward and looks slightly upward behind black sunglasses. One hand holds a modern black smartphone vertically beside the face, partially visible along the right side of the panel. The other facial and hair details remain visible. The shirt collar is casually open. Neutral taupe-gray interior wall and a narrow, dark vertical mirror edge on the left. Candid, intimate portrait photography.

PANEL 2 — TOP RIGHT:
A frontal close-up portrait, cropped from the upper chest to just above the hair. No phone visible. The subject leans their head backward, chin raised, neck elongated, and lips relaxed, with the face angled slightly toward the ceiling. Sunglasses remain firmly in place. The curly hairstyle is clearly visible against a plain, warm gray-beige studio wall. Dramatic but soft shadows emphasize the jawline and neck.

PANEL 3 — BOTTOM LEFT:
A three-quarter side-profile portrait, with the subject turned toward the right side of the image. The torso and shoulders are angled sideways while the head turns slightly toward the camera. Chin gently raised, expression composed and confident. Black sunglasses, thick curly hair, and the black shirt remain consistent. Frame from approximately mid-chest upward against the same neutral taupe-gray background.

PANEL 4 — BOTTOM RIGHT:
A downward-looking portrait with the subject's chin tucked toward the chest. One hand reaches into the top of the curly hair, fingers naturally spread and gently running through the curls. Sunglasses obscure the eyes. The other arm remains relaxed and partially visible. Frame from the upper chest to above the head. Preserve realistic hands, fingers, arm anatomy, shirt folds, and the same neutral background.

LAYOUT AND PAPER DESIGN:
Arrange all four photographs as separate, borderless or very subtly edged rectangular prints with clean, straight edges. Use identical panel dimensions, approximately 1:1 proportions for each photograph, with a thin ivory gutter separating rows and columns. Add exactly four small, circular, dark muted-red thumbtacks at the outer corners of the overall photo arrangement: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Each tack overlaps the photograph grid's outer corner slightly and casts a delicate, realistic shadow. No additional pins.

LIGHTING AND COLOR:
Soft directional studio lighting with warm, muted highlights, gentle shadows, and a natural low-contrast vintage film appearance. Restrained sepia-beige and taupe-gray tones, warm natural skin, deep charcoal-black clothing, subtle analog film grain, fine photographic texture, and slightly faded colors. The four images must have consistent white balance, exposure, and tonal grading.

CAMERA AND REALISM:
High-quality editorial portrait photography, realistic optical rendering, sharp facial details, lifelike curly hair, natural skin pores, realistic neck anatomy, detailed shirt fabric, and convincing reflections on the sunglasses. Each panel should resemble a separate photograph from the same fashion shoot, not a duplicated image. Maintain consistent identity while changing only the camera angle, head position, and gesture described for each panel.

STRICT NEGATIVE CONSTRAINTS:
No text, captions, labels, typography, logos, watermarks, social media interface, extra photographs, extra panels, additional pins, decorative stickers, colored borders, excessive graphics, or collage templates with rounded cards. No inconsistent faces between panels, no duplicate poses, no deformed hands, no extra fingers, no asymmetrical sunglasses, no warped phone, no plastic skin, no exaggerated facial features, and no cartoon or CGI appearance.

FINAL OUTPUT:
One complete, photorealistic 3:4 vertical Instagram image featuring exactly four coordinated portraits in a symmetrical 2 × 2 grid on textured ivory paper, with four dark-red thumbtacks at the outer corners, consistent black styling, curly hair, dark sunglasses, and a subtle vintage editorial aesthetic. The composition, paper margins, panel order, and visual mood should closely match the supplied reference image.

About this image

Four square prints sit in a neat 2 by 2 grid on cream paper, pinned at the outer corners with small dark red tacks. Each one shows the same person in a black short-sleeved shirt and narrow black sunglasses: a mirror selfie with the phone held up, a shot with the head tipped right back, a side profile turned to the right, and a final frame looking down with fingers buried in the curls. Lots of empty paper is left above and below the grid.

The prompt describes the person in full and closes by asking to match the reference, so upload this sample with a clear photo of yourself in ChatGPT and say which one is you.

Keep the gaps between the prints narrow, as the prompt asks, so the grid still reads as one set.

Creator's tip: the prompt fixes the hair as dense, curly and voluminous, so if yours is straight or short, change that line to describe your own hair, or ChatGPT may give you curls.

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