Golden Butterfly Dream — Editorial Portrait Collage

Use the uploaded user photo as the **ONLY identity reference** for the main human subject. Preserve the user's exact recognizable identity with maximum fidelity: facial structure, face shape, facial proportions, forehead, eyebrows, natural eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, mouth structure, jawline, cheekbones, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, hairline, facial hair if present, and every distinctive facial characteristic. **Do not copy or reproduce the identity of the person in the reference image. Do not beautify, redesign, slim, age, de-age, feminize, masculinize, or otherwise alter the user's identity.** The final subject must unmistakably remain the same person from the uploaded photo, regardless of the reference subject's gender or appearance.
Recreate the reference image as a **high-end artistic editorial portrait collage**, preserving its exact visual concept, composition, layering, pose, expression, styling, atmosphere, and photographic treatment while replacing the reference person's identity with the user's identity. The final canvas should be **vertical 4:5**, approximately 736×920 composition, with the subject occupying the lower-center/right portion of the artwork.
**MAIN SUBJECT / POSE:** Show the user's identity in a three-quarter rear-side portrait, positioned in the lower center of the composition. The body is turned mostly away from the camera while the head is rotated back toward the viewer's left/front, creating an elegant over-the-shoulder pose. The shoulders remain naturally angled, neck relaxed, torso upright, and posture graceful. The subject's head is slightly lowered and turned toward the left side of the frame. Reproduce the reference's exact relaxed, candid body language and framing rather than creating a conventional straight-on portrait. Keep realistic anatomy and natural proportions.
**EXPRESSION / EMOTION / GAZE:** The reference shows a warm, genuine, joyful smile. Reconstruct that same emotional expression using the user's identity: relaxed cheeks, naturally raised mouth corners, visible teeth, soft happy eyes, and a spontaneous candid smile. The eyes are directed toward the lower-left/front area rather than directly into the camera. Match the reference's eye openness, eyelid position, eyebrow relaxation, mouth shape, head angle, and emotional warmth. **Do not use the facial expression or gaze from the user's source photo. Identity comes from the user photo; expression, emotion, gaze, and head pose come from this reference.**
**HAIRSTYLE:** Recreate the reference's long, voluminous dark hair styled into an intricate loose braid beginning near the crown and continuing down the back, with softly loose tendrils framing the face. Preserve the user's natural hair characteristics where visible, but adapt the hairstyle to the reference composition without changing facial identity. Decorate the braid and surrounding hair with delicate botanical details: tiny white blossoms, fine pale-gold ornamental stems, small leaves, and several realistic golden-orange butterflies resting among the hair.
**CLOTHING:** Dress the subject in an elegant traditional South Asian outfit matching the reference: a rich warm mustard-yellow/golden embroidered garment with delicate tonal embroidery and textured fabric, paired with a flowing matching drape/dupatta over the shoulder. The clothing should look refined, graceful, lightweight, and naturally fitted without changing the user's body identity. Add delicate traditional gold earrings with a long ornamental drop design. Keep accessories tasteful and consistent with the reference.
**COLLAGE COMPOSITION:** Behind the main subject, create a large semi-transparent monochromatic/soft-desaturated background portrait of the same user, enlarged dramatically so the head and braided hair occupy most of the upper half of the canvas. This background portrait should be softly faded into a pale gray backdrop and act as an atmospheric double-exposure layer. Over this large portrait, place several tall, narrow vertical photographic panels with subtle transparency and soft edges. The panels should contain close-up crops of the user's face, eyes, hair, braid, and butterfly details, arranged in an irregular editorial collage similar to the reference: a dark narrow panel toward the left, a larger face close-up slightly left of center, a central narrow hair/forehead crop, and a tall right-side panel emphasizing hair, braid, flowers, and butterflies. Ensure all panels depict the **user's same identity**, not the reference person's face.
**GRAPHIC LAYERING:** Use translucent vertical rectangular strips with clean straight edges, subtle opacity variation, and layered overlap. Some panels should appear slightly darker and more photographic while others blend softly into the background. Maintain the reference's sophisticated magazine/editorial collage construction rather than making a simple grid. Allow portions of the large faded portrait, hair strands, flowers, and butterflies to extend beyond panel boundaries for a dimensional layered effect.
**BUTTERFLIES & BOTANICAL DETAILS:** Include multiple delicate golden, amber, and orange butterflies distributed naturally through the hairstyle and collage panels. Add tiny white flowers and thin decorative stems intertwined with the braid. Butterflies should be realistic, elegant, softly illuminated, and integrated into the composition—not oversized or cartoonish. A few butterflies may appear in the foreground and background to create depth.
**BACKGROUND:** Use a soft neutral warm-gray studio-like background with a subtle vignette and gentle atmospheric haze. The large faded portrait should merge naturally into this background, creating a dreamy double-exposure effect. Avoid busy scenery, architecture, or unrelated objects.
**LIGHTING:** Soft diffused natural-looking portrait lighting with gentle warm highlights on the face, hair, yellow clothing, flowers, and butterflies. Maintain subtle shadows and dimensionality without harsh contrast. The foreground subject should be crisp and photorealistic while the oversized background portrait remains pale, low-contrast, softly translucent, and slightly ethereal.
**CAMERA / OPTICS:** Simulate a premium portrait photograph captured with an approximately 50–85mm portrait lens, shallow-to-moderate depth of field, realistic perspective, natural facial proportions, and refined editorial detail. The main subject should be sharply resolved, with softly blurred atmospheric layers behind her. Preserve realistic skin texture, individual hair strands, embroidery, jewelry, flowers, and butterfly wings.
**COLOR & FINISH:** Sophisticated warm-neutral palette dominated by mustard yellow, golden beige, soft gray, muted brown, ivory-white floral accents, and amber butterflies. High-end fashion editorial color grading, subtle filmic softness, gentle bloom, delicate highlights, fine texture, controlled contrast, and premium photographic realism. No excessive saturation, plastic skin, artificial HDR, or cartoon appearance.
**FINAL IMAGE PRIORITY:** The result must look like an authentic luxury editorial portrait collage created from multiple photographic exposures of **the user's exact identity**. Preserve the reference's visual hierarchy: enormous faded portrait in the background, layered vertical close-up panels across the upper/middle area, and the sharp smiling three-quarter over-the-shoulder portrait anchoring the lower center. Maintain the same overall pose, head rotation, smile, gaze direction, framing, layered collage structure, butterfly-and-flower decoration, clothing concept, lighting, atmosphere, and elegant dreamy mood. **User photo = WHO the person is. Reference image = HOW the person poses, looks, smiles, gazes, dresses, and how the artwork is composed.**