About This AI Prompt
Transform your photos with a warm sepia color grade and muted tones. This prompt applies professional cinematic color grading while preserving your exact image.
This prompt uses strict image-to-image style transfer techniques to isolate color grading from content. By separating tonal curves, warm sepia undertones, and desaturated palettes from subject composition, it applies a cohesive cinematic look. The instruction set uses strict negative constraints to prevent structural alterations, ensuring facial features and background elements remain untouched. To create a cooler aesthetic, modify the prompt to apply a steel-blue and teal cinematic color grade instead of warm sepia.
Prompt Details
This experimental prompt gives clear instructions for the subject, style, lighting, composition, and other details that shape the final image.
Create a Similar Result With Your Own Photo
Use this prompt with your own photo to recreate a similar look to the example shown on this page. Start with the prompt as written, then adjust the subject, lighting, composition, background, or style to suit your photo.
Suitable For
- cinematic visuals
- cinematic color grading
Reference & AI-Generated Results
Compare the reference image with the AI-generated result to see how the prompt transforms the original image and understand the intended style, composition, lighting, and overall visual direction.
Reference Image
AI-Generated Result
Copy the AI Prompt
Copy the complete prompt below and use it as your starting point. Adjust individual visual details only when you need a different result.
Use the provided reference image ONLY as the COLOR-GRADING AND EDITING-STYLE REFERENCE. Do not copy or recreate its person, scene, composition, objects, pose, lighting setup, or background.
Apply the same overall photographic color grade and tonal treatment from the reference image to the target photo: warm muted brown/sepia undertones, slightly desaturated natural colors, deep but controlled blacks, darker atmospheric shadows, gently softened highlights, warm natural skin tones, subdued reds and greens, warm midtones, restrained contrast, subtle faded tonal roll-off, and a soft low-light photographic character. Preserve natural skin texture and realistic color separation.
IMPORTANT: The target photo itself must remain completely unchanged apart from the color grading and tonal treatment. Preserve the exact person, identity, facial structure, skin texture, body proportions, clothing, pose, expression, hair, background, objects, environment, composition, framing, perspective, camera angle, depth, and every original detail.
Do not add, remove, replace, rearrange, regenerate, beautify, reshape, smooth, sharpen, blur, crop, or alter anything in the target photo.
Transfer ONLY the visual editing style and color grade of the reference image. Do not transfer its content.
The final result should look like the original target photograph naturally received the same color grade as the reference image, with no other visual changes.Best Practice: Start with the prompt as written, then change one visual element at a time when refining your result.
How to Use This AI Prompt
Copy the prompt above and use it with your preferred AI image generator to get similar result on your photo also. Start with the original prompt, then make small changes when you want to adjust the final result.
Tips for Better Results
- Start with the original prompt: Use the prompt as written before changing anything.
- Use your own photo: Upload your photo and use the prompt to create a similar look when your AI tool supports image input or editing.
- Change one detail at a time: Adjust the lighting, background, composition, colors, or style one step at a time.
- Try a few variations: Generate different versions and keep the one that matches your goal best.
Note: Results can vary depending on the AI tool, model, settings, and your photo.
Compatible AI Image Generators
You can use the above prompt with a range of AI image generators. The same prompt may produce different results depending on the tool, model, and settings you choose.
Google Gemini
Useful for detailed prompt-based image generation and image editing workflows.
ChatGPT Image Generation
Suitable for text-guided image creation and prompt-based image editing workflows.
Midjourney
Useful for detailed visual prompts, styles, compositions, and creative image concepts.
Stable Diffusion
Useful for customizable image-generation workflows and prompt-driven experimentation.
