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YOUR QUOTE HERE: WE NEED MUCH LESS THAN WE THINK WE NEED
YOUR NAME: Mia Maldini
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REFERENCE STYLE: minimal split-face text portrait effect
The goal is NOT a poster with text next to a portrait. The goal is a split-face typography portrait: the right half is a realistic face, the left half of the same face is replaced by bold stacked words. The typography sits exactly where the missing left half of the face would be.
Create a vertical 3:4 minimalist text portrait artwork using the person from @img1. The final image must closely follow a split-face typography portrait composition.
Canvas and background: Use a pure white or very soft off-white background. The design must be very clean, minimal, high contrast, and editorial. No colored background, no gradients, no decorative elements.
Main composition: Create a large close-up portrait of the woman's face, perfectly centered horizontally on the canvas. The portrait should be cropped very close, from the top of the hair to just below the neck or upper shoulders. The right half of her face is visible as a clean realistic beauty portrait. The left half of her face is replaced and visually constructed by bold stacked typography.
Very important - center alignment: There must be a sharp vertical white dividing line running from the very top of the canvas down to the very bottom. This vertical white line must run exactly through the center of her nose, splitting her face precisely down the middle. The bridge of her nose, the center of her lips, and the center of her chin must all align perfectly with this vertical divider. The face must be positioned so that the divider passes through the exact center of her facial features - not slightly off to the left or right. The right side of her face begins immediately to the right of this divider. The left side of her face is replaced by typography immediately to the left of this divider.
Portrait placement and pose: The woman's face must be large and close-up, with her nose centered on the canvas. Show the hair on the right side clearly. Her head must be facing the camera straight-on, with no tilt and no turn to the side. Her right eye must be open and looking directly into the camera lens with a confident, self-assured gaze. The expression should be confident, composed, and powerful - chin slightly lifted, relaxed mouth, no smile, strong eye contact. Avoid any soft, dreamy, shy, or downward look.
Skin texture and realism - CRITICAL: The skin must look like a hyper-realistic raw editorial photograph, photographed with a macro lens that captures every fine detail of human skin. The skin must absolutely not look retouched, smoothed, airbrushed, or AI-generated.
Mandatory skin details that must be visible:
- Clearly visible, realistic skin pores across the entire face - especially on the cheeks, nose, forehead, and chin
- Natural skin grain and microtexture, like a real high-resolution beauty photograph
- Fine peach fuzz (vellus hair) on the cheek, jawline, and upper lip area
- Subtle natural skin imperfections - small freckles, tiny moles, slight redness, micro-blemishes, faint blood vessels under the skin
- Natural fine lines around the eye, including small expression lines and subtle crow's feet
- Slight uneven skin tone with natural color variation - soft warmth on the cheeks, cooler tones on the forehead, natural undertones
- Visible texture on the lips with fine vertical lip lines, natural cracks, and subtle dryness - never glossy or plastic
- Slight natural shine on the nose tip, forehead, and chin from real skin oils - not flat matte
- Eyebrows must show individual hair strands going in natural directions, never painted or solid shapes
- Eyelashes must look like separated individual lashes with natural curl, never a black mass
- The eye must show fine iris detail with realistic patterns and color depth, natural moisture, a soft catchlight reflecting the studio light, slight redness in the inner corner, and tiny visible blood vessels in the white of the eye
- Hair must show individual strands, natural flyaways, baby hairs along the hairline, and realistic light reflection - never a solid sculpted helmet
- Natural skin pore depth and dimension, captured with sharp macro detail
Lighting must reveal and emphasize skin texture rather than flatten it. Use soft directional studio light with a gentle natural falloff across the face, creating subtle micro-shadows in pores and fine lines that prove the skin is real.
Reference quality: Vogue or Harper's Bazaar beauty editorial photographed on a Hasselblad medium format camera with a 100mm macro lens at f/5.6, full natural skin texture preserved with minimal retouching - only stray hairs removed, no skin smoothing, no frequency separation, no skin softening filters. Think National Geographic-level skin realism applied to a high-fashion beauty portrait.
Left typography face effect: On the left side of the vertical divider, use the YOUR QUOTE HERE text as a stacked block of very large bold uppercase letters. The typography should form the shape of the hidden left half of the face. The letters should overlap the position where the left eye, cheek, nose, lips, and hair would be. Parts of the portrait should be visible inside some of the letters as a clipping mask, especially around the left eye, cheek, lips, and hair. The letters should not simply sit next to the face; they must visually replace the left side of the face. The text should feel integrated into the portrait, like a Photoshop text portrait effect. Use the exact quote text from YOUR QUOTE HERE above.
Typography style - Impact font: Use the Impact font, or a font that looks identical to Impact: very heavy, wide, condensed sans-serif with thick strong letterforms, flat horizontal terminals, and minimal contrast between strokes.
Key Impact characteristics that must be present:
- Wide, chunky, almost squat letterforms
- Very thick uniform stroke weight
- Tightly packed letter spacing
- Bold blocky uppercase only
- Slightly condensed but still solid and heavy
- Classic newspaper-headline / magazine-poster aesthetic
The font color must be solid black or very dark charcoal. The letters must be tightly stacked vertically with minimal line spacing - letters almost touching from one line to the next. The block must be compact, vertical, and powerfully graphic. Some letters may contain subtle portrait texture as a clipping mask, but the words must remain perfectly readable. Keep the text block tight against the center vertical divider so it feels attached to the face.
Bottom signature: At the bottom left, below the typography block, place: - YOUR NAME
The name should look like a refined handwritten signature or elegant cursive signature. It should be thin, black, stylish, and smaller than the main quote. It should feel like an artist signature. Do not use bold uppercase for the signature.
Clothing and styling: Use minimal light-colored styling, such as a white or cream turtleneck or simple white beauty-editorial top. Keep the styling clean and secondary to the face and typography.
Lighting and mood: Soft directional studio lighting that reveals and emphasizes skin texture rather than flattening it. High-key white background. Raw, minimally retouched beauty photography aesthetic that preserves all natural skin detail. Minimalist editorial poster aesthetic. Sharp typography in Impact font. Polished luxury social-media artwork.
Critical layout rules:
- The image must look like a split-face text portrait effect.
- The right half is a realistic close-up face with hyper-realistic, pore-level skin texture.
- The left half is constructed from bold Impact typography.
- The vertical white divider must run exactly through the center of her nose.
- Her face must be perfectly centered horizontally on the canvas.
- The typography must overlap the hidden left side of the face.
- The text block must not sit far away from the face.
- The composition should resemble a Photoshop text portrait tutorial result.
- Use both the face and the text together as one integrated portrait.
Negative instructions: Do not create a normal poster with text beside a full portrait. Do not show the full face normally. Do not place the face off-center. Do not shift her nose to the left or right of the dividing line. Do not place the entire face to the right edge. Do not make the text block separate from the face. Do not close the eyes. Do not make her look away. Do not tilt or turn her head. Do not let her smile. Do not use a soft, shy, or dreamy expression. Do not add a small headline or any additional text at the top of the design. Do not use colored background. Do not add social media UI, icons, watermark, logos, or subtitles. Do not misspell the quote. Do not duplicate random text. Do not add extra words. Do not use a thin, light, or condensed-elegant font - the font must look like Impact, heavy and chunky. Do not produce plastic-looking, airbrushed, smoothed, waxy, or doll-like skin under any circumstances. Do not erase, blur, or soften pores, skin grain, peach fuzz, or fine lines. Do not create a porcelain or matte-perfect complexion. Do not apply frequency separation, skin softening, or beauty filters. Do not flatten the skin with even, shadowless lighting. Do not give the lips a glossy plastic surface. Do not render eyebrows or lashes as solid painted shapes. Do not over-saturate, over-sharpen, or over-process the portrait. Do not produce a CGI or 3D-rendered look.