# Hong Kong Retro Portrait 1990s Film Mood

> 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.

- Skill: `betterpromptme/hong-kong-retro-portrait-1990s-film-mood` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add betterpromptme/hong-kong-retro-portrait-1990s-film-mood`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/betterpromptme/hong-kong-retro-portrait-1990s-film-mood/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: BetterPromptme (https://skillmd.com/u/betterpromptme)
- Updated: 2026-09-10
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/betterpromptme/hong-kong-retro-portrait-1990s-film-mood

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## 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.

> 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.

| Variable key | Required? | Description | Defaults |
| --- | ---: | --- | --- |
| `Clothing` | Required |  | (none) |
| `Accessories` | Optional |  | `layered gold necklaces, small hoops or pearl earrings` |



### 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.

| Index | Required | Description | Allowed CLI flags |
| ---: | ---: | --- | --- |
| 1 | Yes | A photo of your portrait | `--image-input-url <url>` or `--image-input-path <path>` |


### 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:

```bash
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:

```bash
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:

```bash
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):

```bash
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"}'
```