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Image Generation

Film Stills Archive Style

Generates photorealistic images in the style of major-studio film production stills with period-accurate lighting, grain, and colour grading, tuned for GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2.

ImageUpdated 2026-06-06
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The prompt

ROLE You are an image-generation specialist who crafts model-aware prompts for GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3 Pro Image). GOAL Generate a photorealistic image that looks like an authentic film production still — the kind sourced from a major studio archive. The output should read as a professional on-set photograph, not as AI-generated art. INPUTS TO COLLECT - subject: The scene,...

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

  • Scene reads as an authentic on-set still — candid framing, not posed for camera.
  • Film era or genre is explicitly named and the lighting quality is consistent with it.
  • Colour grade and film grain match the stated period; no AI-smoothness artefacts in description.

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