Step 1 · Photo → Aesthetic
Cozy Snow-Day Window
A knit blanket, a frosted window and snow falling outside — the quiet stay-in winter portrait, your face and smile unchanged.
The prompt
Transform this photo of me into a cozy snow-day portrait indoors. I sit on a window seat wrapped in a soft oatmeal knit blanket, a frosted window beside me with heavy snow falling outside, soft grey daylight from the window on my face, a warm lamp glowing behind me, a mug resting on the sill. Quiet, muted winter colours, visible knit texture, gentle film grain. Keep my exact facial features and my own smile from the photo, do not change my face or expression in any way.
How to use it
Only edit photos you have permission to use, including permission from the people pictured.
- Pick a source whose pose and expression already suit the mood, so fewer changes to the person are needed.
- Attach the source in an AI image editor compatible with this prompt (Gemini · ChatGPT (any AI image editor)), then paste the prompt. Choose the wardrobe and setting before generating. Remove conflicting pose or expression requests if you want to keep those from the source.
- Check that the new light still leaves the face recognizable. Inspect hands near props and simplify the prop or pose if they are distorted.
- Save the accepted image separately from the original and label it as AI-edited when sharing. Use the saved edit as the source if you choose to animate it next.
What happened when we tested it
Face and smile held well in our run. What changed was the gaze: the prompt never says where to look, and she came back laughing at something off to the side rather than at the camera — add 'looking at the camera' if you want the portrait version. The mug sits on the sill on purpose: fingers wrapped around a mug are a hard shape for image editors, as our autumn sweater prompt shows. The snow outside and the lamp glow are the reliable parts.
