Cinematic Night Drive Portrait

What it does

This prompt instructs an AI image model to take a user-provided portrait and restyle it into a safe-for-work, nostalgic late-night cinematic scene where the same person leans out of a moving car window, with wind-swept hair, ambient city glow, motion-blurred streetlights and traffic streaks, and a subtle film-grain finish. It emphasizes single-pass execution, strong identity preservation (no changes to age, facial structure, skin tone, or defining traits), natural adaptation of clothing and styling based on the subject, and prohibits unsafe content, watermarks, and overly smoothing retouching, resulting in a dreamy, film-like night-drive portrait.

For more installation instructions go to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetterPromptme/skills/refs/heads/main/betterprompt/SKILL.md to check out this skill.

Inputs

textInputs

Pass each text input using --input <key>=<value> flags.

imageInputs

This prompt requires exactly 1 image. You must pass exactly 1 image flag (no more, no fewer), in the order matching the descriptions below.

Models and options

This skill's modality is: image.

To discover which model values you can use (and which options keys/values are valid for each model), run:

betterprompt resources --models-only --json

Then filter the returned JSON array to entries where modality is "image".

How to run

Step 1: Collect inputs

First, run betterprompt resources --models-only --json and filter to modality: "image" to discover valid models and available options:

betterprompt resources --models-only --json

Use only the models and option values that appear in the filtered results.

Then collect all inputs from the human:

• Optional text inputs (use defaults if not provided by the human):
  • mood (default: nostalgic, cinematic, late-night drive )
  • grain (default: subtle film grain overlay )
  • Clothing_style (default: casual, white knit sweater )
  • motion_effects (default: blurred city lights streaking in the background)
• Required images:
  • Exactly 1 images: image 1 (upload your portrait photo). Images must be provided in this order.
• Optional: model and options.
  • Present the human with the default model gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview and its available options. Look up gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview in the betterprompt resources output (filtered to modality "image") and show its availableOptions as: key: val1, val2 (default), val3 | key2: .... Mark a value (default) if it matches these defaults: {"aspectRatio":"1:1"}.
  • If the human does not specify, defaults are used: model gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview, options {"aspectRatio":"1:1"}. Other models from the resources call are also available.

If the required images are missing, ask the human for what's missing. Do not assume or fabricate values. Tell the human: "Please provide images in this order: image 1 (upload your portrait photo)".

Step 2: Run via BetterPrompt CLI

Use the frontmatter's name as the positional argument (for this skill, use cinematic-night-drive-portrait).

Command form:

betterprompt generate cinematic-night-drive-portrait \
  [--input <key>=<value>] \
  [--image-input-url <url>] \
  [--image-input-path <path>] \
  [--model <model>] \
  [--options <options JSON>] \
  [--json]

Notes:

• Pass each text input as a separate --input <key>=<value> flag.
• Pass each image using --image-input-url or --image-input-path, in the order matching the imageInputs descriptions (image 1 first, then image 2, etc.).
• If the human does not mention a model, omit --model and BetterPrompt will use the default model: gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview.
• If the human does not mention options, omit --options and BetterPrompt will use the default options: {"aspectRatio":"1:1"}.
• If the run times out, the response will include a runId you can use to fetch the result later.

Example (using defaults shown above):

betterprompt generate cinematic-night-drive-portrait \
  --input 'mood=nostalgic, cinematic, late-night drive ' \
  --input 'grain=subtle film grain overlay  ' \
  --input 'Clothing_style=casual, white knit sweater  ' \
  --input 'motion_effects=blurred city lights streaking in the background' \
  --image-input-url https://example.com/image1.png \
  --model gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview \
  --options '{"aspectRatio":"1:1"}'