Hong Kong Retro Portrait 1990s Film Mood

What it does

This prompt directs an AI image generator to produce a high-resolution, photorealistic vertical ¾-body portrait of a woman in a cramped, cluttered 1990s Hong Kong room, with precise pose and expression, period-accurate set dressing, and mixed tungsten-plus red/cyan neon lighting diffused through mist. It specifies an analog film look (shallow depth of field, heavy grain, gentle bloom, muted nostalgic color grade) and enforces tasteful realism while emphasizing emotional restraint and cultural authenticity. The intended outcome is a single cinematic, Wong Kar-wai–like film-still portrait that preserves the subject’s facial identity exactly and conveys quiet melancholy within a lived-in retro interior.

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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:

• Required text inputs:
  • Clothing
• Optional text inputs (use defaults if not provided by the human):
  • Accessories (default: layered gold necklaces, small hoops or pearl earrings)
• Required images:
  • Exactly 1 images: image 1 (A photo of your portrait). 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 any required text input or 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 (A photo of your portrait)".

Step 2: Run via BetterPrompt CLI

Use the frontmatter's name as the positional argument (for this skill, use hong-kong-retro-portrait-1990s-film-mood).

Command form:

betterprompt generate hong-kong-retro-portrait-1990s-film-mood \
  [--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 hong-kong-retro-portrait-1990s-film-mood \
  --input Clothing=<value> \
  --input 'Accessories=layered gold necklaces, small hoops or pearl earrings' \
  --image-input-url https://example.com/image1.png \
  --model gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview \
  --options '{"aspectRatio":"1:1"}'