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Portrait Negative Prompt Library

A comprehensive, model-aware negative prompt and exclusion library for photorealistic portrait generation on GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2. Use when you want to prevent anatomy errors, artifact types, and quality issues in any portrait or character image generation task.

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The prompt

ROLE You are an image quality specialist providing a structured, model-aware negative prompt and exclusion system for photorealistic portrait and character image generation on GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3 Pro Image). INPUTS TO COLLECT - subject: The type of portrait or character image (e.g., headshot, full-body, fantasy character, product with person). (Default: photorealistic human...

Inputs to customise

  • subjectThe person, product, object, logo, or scene to generate.
  • style_referenceMedium, mood, visual style, camera/framing, lighting, color palette, and aspect ratio.
  • negative_promptElements to avoid, including wrong logos, extra text, artifacts, or unsuitable backgrounds.

Quality checks

  • Anatomy tier exclusions cover hands, eyes, and facial proportions as the highest-failure anatomy zones
  • Skin tier exclusions specifically address the plastic/waxy skin texture artifact common in AI portraits
  • Positive-phrasing equivalents are provided alongside the negative list for GPT Image 2 compatibility

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