✦ AI Photo Prompts 2026

Best Gemini Prompts to Upgrade Your Photo

Transform any selfie or portrait into cinematic art, ink posters, comic collages, and more — completely free with Google Gemini. Just copy, paste & create.

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Why These Gemini Prompts Are Going Viral in 2026

Google Gemini's image generation has crossed a new threshold in 2026 — it can now understand a person's face from an uploaded photo and reimagine them in fully realised, cinematic scenes. These 9 hand-crafted prompts are engineered to extract the maximum visual impact from that capability.

Whether you want to look like you're painting your own mural in a Parisian café, appear as a dark graphic-novel hero, or stand in an ultra-stylish orange editorial shoot — each prompt below is designed to work with your real uploaded photo. Just open Gemini, upload your image, paste the prompt, and hit generate.

The 9 Best Gemini Prompts for Photos

Click "Copy Prompt" → Open Gemini → Upload your photo → Paste → Generate ✨

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Hyper-Realistic

Mural Painter Portrait – Café Wall

8K Portrait Café
Create a realistic vertical portrait 8K. The person in the uploaded photo is painting a large mural on the wall of a Café, and the mural features a realistic artistic version of his own face, with the same expression and features, as if painting a reflection of himself. The wall has a natural texture surrounded by decorative White pots with various colors of roses, there are vines and climbing plants. The lighting is soft natural light, not too warm.
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Raw Ink

Chaotic Ink Scribble Poster

Ink Art High Contrast
Redraw the provided face as a raw chaotic ink poster built mainly from dense curved black scribble strokes. Use the original only for proportions. Form hair, shadows and structure with overlapping uneven lines and rough cross-hatching. Keep minimal flat beige tone, no realism, no gradients. Slight asymmetry. Irregular tangled aura. Solid flat orange background. High contrast, no 3D, no polish.
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Dramatic

Yellow Drama – Splatter Portrait

Dramatic Brushstroke
Convert this image into a dramatic, stylised portrait, featuring a dark, almost silhouetted figure in profile looking to the left. The figure has an intense, rugged look with voluminous wavy and slightly tousled well set hair, energetic hair. The background is a vibrant, solid yellow. Dynamic, expressive black and yellow brushstrokes or abstract splatter emanate from around the figure's head and shoulders, blending into the yellow background.
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Vintage

Vintage Film Grain Smoke

Vintage Smoke
A man should be standing with hands in pockets, wearing a modern grey hoodie and black cargo pants, and white high-top sneakers. He has slicked-back hair. His facial expression is a thoughtful stare, while looking front. The background should be an artistic vintage film grain composition featuring a soft side profile of the same face, I am not in vintage, strong yellow and orange smoke effect rising from floor, vintage profile.
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Editorial

Orange Monochrome Fashion

Fashion Luxury
Ultra-realistic fashion editorial, low-angle 24mm shot. A confident man in a tailored bright orange suit, white shirt, and orange tie leans against a sharp corner in an all-orange monochrome studio. Forced perspective with oversized orange and black sneakers dominating the foreground. A compact vintage orange hatchback is parked behind him. Clean geometric lines, high-contrast studio lighting, luxury street-style aesthetic, 4:5 aspect ratio.
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Cinematic

Storm Rescue & Cinematic Ocean

8K Storm
Ultra-realistic cinematic storm scene, man in ocean holding viewer's hand (POV), strong grip rescue moment, lightning in dark sky, erupting volcano in background, dramatic sunset lighting, water splashes, wet black shirt, intense expression, 8K, high detail, epic atmosphere.
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B&W

Ultra-Realistic B&W Portrait

Noir Portrait
Transform the uploaded photo into an ultra-realistic black-and-white cinematic portrait of the same person. Keep the facial identity and proportions recognizable (same eyes, nose shape, jawline, and face structure).
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Comic

Manga Panel Action Collage

Manga Hybrid
Hybrid comic-photoreal action collage: A young man wearing glasses running toward the camera with a wide screaming joyful expression, dynamic forward motion pose, accompanied by a large Rottweiler dog running beside him with open mouth and energetic expression. Central subject in full photorealistic color, background composed of multiple black-and-white manga comic panels showing alternate angles of the same scene.
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Surreal

Cracked Shadow – Action Reflection

Victor Art Hero
Ultra-realistic Victor Art cinematic portrait of a calm South Indian man, neutral expression, matte-black outfit, soft, flat lighting, documentary realism. Behind him, instead of a shadow, a cracked glass wall shows his reflection as a powerful mass action hero, intense gold-glowing eyes, rugged beard, broader build, cinematic lighting only on reflection. Front face plain, reflection dominant, minimal background, deep psychological surreal realism.

How to Use These Gemini Prompts

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Open Google Gemini

Visit gemini.google.com and sign in. Use Gemini Advanced for the best possible detail and adherence.

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Upload Your Photo

Click the image icon and upload a clear front-facing photo. Good lighting is key for realistic results.

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Copy & Paste

Use the "Copy Prompt" button above and paste it directly into the chat box next to your image.

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Generate

Hit enter. If the first result isn't perfect, just hit "Regenerate" or slightly tweak the wording.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do these prompts work with any photo? +
Yes — these prompts are designed to work with any uploaded portrait or selfie. Clear, well-lit front-facing photos produce the best results. Avoid blurry or heavily filtered photos.
Which version of Gemini should I use? +
For highest quality, use Gemini Advanced (Gemini 2.0 Ultra or Pro). The free tier can also produce good results, but image quality and prompt adherence is better on paid plans.
Can I modify the prompts? +
Absolutely. These prompts are starting templates. Feel free to swap colours, styles, locations, or mood descriptors. Experimenting is how you discover your favourite results.