This photo-editing prompt recreates the viral open-world game key-art look: your portrait reimagined as a confident street character in a neon Vice City-style coastal sunset, rendered as a saturated digital-airbrush poster with crisp vector-like linework. The facial-identity lock keeps your features exact while the engine rebuilds wardrobe, pose and the entire neon scenography around you.
What This Prompt Creates
- Rebuilds your portrait as stylized video-game character art with smooth airbrush shading and rim-lit edges
- Dresses you in modern coastal streetwear: washed-black graphic tee, relaxed cargo trousers, cuban-link chain, sport watch, dark rectangular sunglasses
- Poses you leaning on a sleek sports car on a damp Ocean Drive-style boulevard
- Builds the full backdrop: royal palm silhouettes, art-deco hotels with hot-pink and cyan neon, orange-to-violet gradient sky, distant skyline and police helicopter
- Mirrors the neon glow in wet asphalt for the signature synthwave finish
- Adds a rounded picture-in-picture inset of your original reference photo for comparison
How to Use It
Open ChatGPT (GPT-4o image) or any image model that accepts reference photos, attach one clear, well-lit portrait of yourself, then paste the full prompt. The identity block at the top locks your facial structure; the rest of the prompt controls style, wardrobe, pose and background. For Flux or Midjourney, use the alternative setup at the end of the prompt with –cref set to your photo URL and a low –cw so the art style can take over.
Customize the Result
- Swap the wardrobe: cropped tank top and off-shoulder zip hoodie for a feminine look, open linen button-down for a summer look
- Change the pose: crossed arms, sitting on the hood, or walking toward camera
- Shift the palette: hotter magenta for night scenes, more gold for golden-hour scenes
- Change the format: 9:16 for Stories, 1:1 for the grid
Trademark-Safe by Design
This prompt creates an original fan-style poster in the popular neon game-art trend. It intentionally includes no official game logos, studio names or trademarked emblems; the top-corner title treatment is an original neon wordmark, so the result is safe to generate and share.
AI Photo Editing Prompt
PromptMaintain the exact facial structure, bone features, skin tone, eye shape, and identity of the person from the uploaded reference photo without alteration. Only adapt the pose, lighting, wardrobe, and background; the final image must unmistakably depict the exact same person from the original source photo. Vertical 4:5 aspect ratio. Quality: saturated digital concept art, premium editorial finish, hyper-detailed stylized textures, cinematic depth, masterpiece quality. An official-looking video-game character art poster in the popular neon Vice City sunset style, featuring the subject in a confident street pose. The subject has textured, wind-swept hair, dark rectangular sunglasses, a subtle silver cuban-link chain necklace, and a steel-strap sport watch. Styled in modern coastal streetwear: an oversized washed-black graphic streetwear t-shirt and relaxed black cargo trousers. The subject leans casually against the hood of a sleek modern sports car parked on a damp city street. The background is an iconic Ocean Drive-style coastal boulevard at sunset: towering royal palm silhouettes, art-deco beachfront hotel facades glowing with hot-pink and cyan neon signage (generic abstract neon shapes plus the words OCEAN DRIVE and HOTEL), a vibrant gradient sky shifting from bright orange to deep violet, a low setting sun over the bay, and a distant police helicopter flying past modern skyline towers. Wet asphalt mirrors the pink and cyan neon glow. Digital airbrush illustration aesthetic with crisp vector-like contours: smooth skin shading, rim-lit edges, stylized hair clumps, glossy vehicular reflections without plastic over-smoothing, saturated colors, cinematic rim lighting, high-contrast concept art. In the top corner, an original rounded neon title treatment with a gradient-filled emblem and silhouetted palm texture, no real-world brand or game logos. In the bottom-right corner, a clean rounded picture-in-picture inset displaying the uploaded reference photo labeled Reference. Do not include any official game logos, studio names, or trademarked emblems. Midjourney / Flux.1 alternative setup: [IMAGE_URL] neon Vice City-style video-game character concept art of [SUBJECT], leaning against a sports car on a coastal boulevard, palm trees, vibrant pink and orange sunset sky, glowing art-deco neon signs, modern streetwear and sunglasses, digital airbrush illustration, cinematic rim lighting --ar 4:5 --style raw --cref [IMAGE_URL] --cw 15 --iw 2.0 (--cref anchors the exact face; --cw 15 fixes facial features while the engine builds the art style, wardrobe and neon background; --style raw keeps illustrative edges crisp.)
Negative Prompt
Negative Promptofficial logos, trademarked emblems, brand names, readable trademark text, deformed face, bad anatomy, extra limbs, watermark, low detail, photorealistic grain, plastic over-smoothed skin, dull colors
Prompt Details
| Prompt Type | Photo Editing |
|---|---|
| AI Tool | ChatGPT |
| Style | Illustration |
| Category | Portrait |
| Use Case | Instagram, Social Media |
| Tags | art deco, game art, illustration, miami, neon, palm trees, poster, retro, sports car, streetwear, sunglasses, sunset, synthwave, vice city |
| Aspect Ratio | 4:5 |
| Lighting | Neon rim + sunset backlight |
| Camera | Game key-art render |
| Lens | 35mm equivalent |
| Mood | Confident, cinematic |
| Difficulty | Beginner |
How to Use This Prompt
- Copy the prompt using the button above.
- Open your preferred AI image-generation or editing tool.
- Upload the photo you want to edit.
- Paste the prompt into the text field.
- Adjust parameters (aspect ratio, quality, steps) if necessary.
- Generate or edit the image, then refine until you like the result.
