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Anime Style Photo Prompt: Your Photo to Anime Portrait
Turn your own photo into an original anime style portrait in ChatGPT: lock the features that make you recognizable, pick a look, and fix common misses.
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Prompt
Act as a digital illustrator who writes ChatGPT image prompts that turn a person's own photo into an original anime style portrait, keeps them recognizable, and never copies a named studio, show, character, or artist. Inputs: - What is in the photo I will upload: pose, clothing, setting, light: [PhotoDescription] - Features that must stay the same (hair, glasses, freckles, outfit colors, accessories): [KeepFeatures] - The anime look I want, in plain words (for example soft cel shading, bold action lines, watercolor wash, 1990s TV anime colors): [AnimeLook] - Background: keep, simplify, or a new scene I describe: [Background] - Framing and aspect ratio (square avatar, 4:5 portrait, 9:16 wallpaper): [Framing] - Whose photo this is and whether I have their permission: [Consent] Generate: 1. Consent check: if Consent is not my own photo or a photo I have permission to use, stop and ask me to confirm before writing anything else. 2. Feature lock list: each KeepFeatures item written as a short, concrete instruction (color, shape, side of the face) so the anime portrait still looks like the person. 3. Main prompt to paste into ChatGPT with the photo attached: subject and pose from PhotoDescription, the feature lock list, AnimeLook described as line weight, shading, eye style, and palette, Background, and Framing with the aspect ratio. 4. Two alternate looks in the same structure, each changing only the style lines, so I can compare. 5. Fix-it follow-ups, one line each, for: face no longer looks like me, eyes too large, hands or fingers wrong, outfit color drifted, background too busy, text or a signature appeared. 6. Group or pet variant: how to add a second person or a pet from the same photo, with a consent reminder for every person. 7. Export note: which Framing to pick for a profile picture, a phone wallpaper, or a print. Rules: - Own photos or photos taken with permission only; no celebrities or public figures. - Never name an anime studio, show, character, or artist in the prompts; describe the look instead. - No sexualized edits, and never make a child look older or an adult look like a child.
Instructions
Upload your own photo in ChatGPT, paste the main prompt, and use one fix-it line at a time if something drifts. Only use photos of other people with their permission, and never upload photos of celebrities. Results vary between runs, so generate a few and pick the one that still looks like you. Describe the look in plain words; never name a studio, show, character, or artist. The example asks for 4:5; the result image on this page is shown cropped to 16:9.
Generated Output
This image was generated using the prompt above.
Examples
Example Input
PhotoDescription: me, a woman in my late 20s, waist up on a city rooftop at sunset, wearing a mustard yellow raincoat, holding a white paper coffee cup in both hands, warm light from behind KeepFeatures: round black glasses, shoulder-length dark curly hair, the mustard yellow raincoat, a small silver hoop earring in each ear AnimeLook: soft cel shading with clean thin line art, warm sunset palette Background: keep the rooftop and the sunset, simplify the buildings into soft shapes Framing: 4:5 portrait for a profile picture, waist up Consent: my own photo
Example Output
1. CONSENT CHECK Your own photo: OK to continue. 2. FEATURE LOCK LIST - Round black glasses, same size and shape, resting in the same spot on the nose - Shoulder-length dark curly hair with loose curls framing the face, same parting - Mustard yellow raincoat, same color, collar and buttons visible - A small silver hoop earring in each ear - White paper coffee cup held in both hands at chest height 3. MAIN PROMPT (attach your photo) "Turn the person in this photo into an original anime style portrait. Keep her recognizable: round black glasses of the same shape, shoulder-length dark curly hair with loose curls framing her face and the same parting, a mustard yellow raincoat with the collar and buttons visible, and a small silver hoop earring in each ear. She holds a white paper coffee cup in both hands at chest height. Style: soft cel shading with clean thin line art, gentle two-tone shadows, expressive but natural-sized eyes, warm sunset palette of orange, peach, and soft purple. Background: the same city rooftop at sunset, with the buildings simplified into soft shapes and a glowing sky. Framing: waist up, centered, 4:5 portrait. No text, no signature, no watermark." 4. ALTERNATE LOOKS (only the style lines change) A) "Style: watercolor wash anime, soft edges, paper texture, light pencil line art, pastel sunset palette." B) "Style: 1990s TV anime look, flat cel colors, slightly thicker outlines, warm film grain, sunset palette with deep orange shadows." 5. FIX-IT FOLLOW-UPS - Face drifted: "Keep the same face shape, nose, and smile as the photo; change only the drawing style." - Eyes too large: "Make the eyes smaller and closer to her real proportions, still anime style." - Hands wrong: "Redraw both hands around the cup with five fingers each, relaxed grip." - Raincoat changed color: "Make the raincoat mustard yellow exactly like the photo." - Background busy: "Simplify the background to a soft gradient sky and two or three building shapes." - Text appeared: "Remove all text, signatures, and watermarks." 6. GROUP OR PET VARIANT Upload a photo with the second person or the pet and add: "Add the [person or pet] from the photo standing to her left, same style, same feature lock approach." Confirm the other person agrees before you upload their photo. 7. EXPORT NOTE 4:5 suits a profile picture. For a phone wallpaper, ask for a 9:16 version with extra sky above her head; for a print, ask for the largest size available.