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How to Prompt Realistic Looking People

Check out some of the prompts our team uses to generate people who look real.

Madalyn Johnson
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How to Prompt Realistic Looking People
Key Takeaways

Bringing lifelike people into your projects starts with the right prompt. This guide showcases a collection of images created in LTX—each paired with the exact prompt used to generate it. Whether you're crafting narratives, ads, or cinematic scenes, these examples will help you achieve more realistic, consistent, and expressive human characters.

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Old man's portrait on red backdrop. High end fashion style low contrast shallow depth of field. wearing natural modern minimalist clothes, warm tones. Warmer tones still extreme close-up interesting angle. Soft glow/halation. 35mm film grain. Low angle.

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Half close-up of old Black woman on @Blue backdrop. Woman is at the bottom of frame with only her eyes and forehead in the shot.

Half warm lighting. High end fashion look. Soft focus, shallow depth of field. Natural look like from a minimalist cosmetic brand similar to The Ordinary. Halation. High end film. Film grain. Minimalist look.  Should feel like 16mm film. Subtle motion blur. Diffuse.

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Close-up of a hand on @Blue backdrop. Half warm lighting on the hand. hHgh end fashion look. Soft focus, shallow depth of field. Natural looks from a minimalist cosmetic brand similar to The Ordinary. Halation. High end film. Film grain. Minimalist look. Should feel like 16mm film.

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An older woman portrait in front of the background. High end fashion look. Soft focus, shallow depth of field. Natural look. Halation. High end film. Film grain. Minimalist look.

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Macro shot of skin on blue backdrop. Interesting angle remove woman from image. High end fashion style. Low contrast, shallow depth of field. Wearing natural modern minimalist clothes. Warmer tones, still extreme close-up interesting angle. Soft glow/halation. Heavy film grain.

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A hedgehog on a stool with @GreenBackdrop in the background.

High end fashion style. Low contrast ,shallow depth of field. Wearing natural, modern, minimalist clothes, warm tones. Warmer tones, still extreme close-up interesting angle. Soft glow/halation. 35mm film grain. High angle.

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Baby portrait, red backdrop. High end fashion style. Low contrast, shallow depth of field. Wearing natural modern minimalist clothes, warm tones. Warmer tones still extreme close-up interesting angle. Soft glow/halation. 35mm film grain. High angle.

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Hands holding clean cosmetic product. Close-up. No text. @PaleBackdrop

High end fashion style low contrast shallow depth of field, warm tones. Warmer tones still extreme close-up interesting angle. Soft glow/halation. 35mm film grain. High angle.

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Young girl. Ginger hair. Side profile. Left side of frame. Bottom. Retain the blue background from the reference.

High end fashion style low contrast shallow depth of field. Wearing natural minimalist, warm tones. Warmer tones still extreme close-up interesting angle. Soft glow/halation. 35mm film grain. High angle.

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Extreme close-up.

High end fashion style low contrast shallow depth of field. Wearing natural minimalist, warm tones. Warmer tones still extreme close-up interesting angle. Soft glow/halation. 35mm film grain. High angle.

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Add a middle aged African American man. Looking away from camera to @GreenBackdrop.

High end fashion style low contrast shallow depth of field. Wearing minimalist natural simple clothes, single color tones. Warmer tones still extreme close-up. Soft glow/halation. 35mm film grain. High angle.

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Older African American male, modeling. Uneven framing. Medium close-up. Only portion of man is scene. Solid color backdrop. High end fashion.

High end fashion style low contrast shallow depth of field. Wearing or minimalist natural simple clothes single, color tones. Warmer tones still extreme close-up. Soft glow/halation. 35mm film grain. 

Backdrop should be texture photographic backdrop. Saturated color green. Have him wearing an ivory clothes.

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Older Black male person, skin texture macro shot back of hand. Uneven framing. Extreme close-up macro shot. Solid color backdrop.

High end fashion style low contrast shallow depth of field. Wearing minimalist natural simple clothes, single color tones. Warmer tones still extreme close-up. Soft glow/halation. 35mm film grain. 

Backdrop should be texture photographic backdrop. Saturated color either orange, blue, green, cream. Complimentary colors.

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Older male person, eye macro shot, uneven framing. Extreme close-up. Solid color backdrop. High end fashion. 

High end fashion style low contrast shallow depth of field. Wearing minimalist natural simple clothes, single color tones. Warmer tones still extreme close-up. Soft glow/halation. 35mm film grain. 

Backdrop should be texture photographic backdrop. Saturated color either orange, blue, green, cream. Complimentary colors.

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Older male person, modeling luxury watch. Uneven framing. Low angle. Extreme close-up. Only portion of woman is scene. Solid color backdrop. High end fashion.

High end fashion style, low contrast, shallow depth of field. Wearing minimalist natural simple clothes, single color tones. Warmer tones still extreme close-up. Soft glow/halation. 35mm film grain. 

Backdrop should be texture photographic backdrop. Saturated color either orange, blue, green, cream.

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Older person. Uneven framing. Only portion of woman is scene. Solid color backdrop. She is holding luxury handbag.

High end fashion style, low contrast, shallow depth of field. Wearing minimalist natural simple clothes, single color tones. Warmer tones still extreme close-up. Soft glow/halation. 35mm film grain.

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Add a middle aged Cuban woman to @DarkGreenBackdrop. Looking away from camera.

High end fashion style, low contrast, shallow depth of field. Wearing minimalist natural simple clothes, single color tones. Warmer tones still extreme close-up. Soft glow/halation. 35mm film grain. High angle.

The backdrops used in these examples — from deep green to soft pale tones — are available to download for free.