past-and-present-portrait-merge

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name: past-and-present-portrait-merge description: This prompt directs an image model to generate a photorealistic, vertically framed (9:16) cinematic portrait that places the same person’s present-day self and younger child self together in one nostalgic golden-hour alleyway scene, with strict identity preservation from an input portrait. It specifies exact staging—adult leaning against a wall looking down reflectively, child standing slightly forward looking up curiously—while enforcing a warm, vintage film-still mood with subtle haze and lens flare. The outcome is a timeless, emotionally resonant side-by-side generational image that maintains consistent facial traits, skin texture, and unique features, and adapts clothing style (casual/formal/neutral) without adding modern artifacts, logos, extra characters, or altering the setting. compatibility: Requires betterprompt >= 0.1.3 metadata: openclaw: homepage: https://github.com/BetterPromptme/skills emoji: 🧩 requires: anyBins: - betterprompt - bp os: - linux - darwin install: - id: node kind: node package: betterprompt bins: [betterprompt, bp] label: Install BetterPrompt CLI (node)

What it does

This prompt directs an image model to generate a photorealistic, vertically framed (9:16) cinematic portrait that places the same person’s present-day self and younger child self together in one nostalgic golden-hour alleyway scene, with strict identity preservation from an input portrait. It specifies exact staging—adult leaning against a wall looking down reflectively, child standing slightly forward looking up curiously—while enforcing a warm, vintage film-still mood with subtle haze and lens flare. The outcome is a timeless, emotionally resonant side-by-side generational image that maintains consistent facial traits, skin texture, and unique features, and adapts clothing style (casual/formal/neutral) without adding modern artifacts, logos, extra characters, or altering the setting.

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_style	Optional	Defines how both the childhood and present versions of the subject are dressed. The clothing should harmonize naturally so the two versions look like they belong in the same photo. Avoid jarring or mismatched outfits.	casual: white T-shirt and jeans, light sweater

imageInputs

This prompt requires exactly 2 images. You must pass exactly 2 image flags (no more, no fewer), in the order matching the descriptions below.

Index	Required	Description	Allowed CLI flags
1	Yes	your childhood portrait	--image-input-url <url> or --image-input-path <path>
2	Yes	your present-day 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:

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:

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:

• Optional text inputs (use defaults if not provided by the human):
  • clothing_style (default: casual: white T-shirt and jeans, light sweater )
• Required images:
  • Exactly 2 images: image 1 (your childhood portrait) and image 2 (your present-day 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: {}.
  • If the human does not specify, defaults are used: model gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview, options {}. Other models from the resources call are also available.

If 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 (your childhood portrait) and image 2 (your present-day portrait)".

Step 2: Run via BetterPrompt CLI

Use the frontmatter's name as the positional argument (for this skill, use past-and-present-portrait-merge).

Command form:

betterprompt generate past-and-present-portrait-merge \
  [--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: {}.
• If the run times out, the response will include a runId you can use to fetch the result later.

Example (using defaults shown above):

betterprompt generate past-and-present-portrait-merge \
  --input 'clothing_style=casual: white T-shirt and jeans, light sweater  ' \
  --image-input-url https://example.com/image1.png \
  --image-input-path /path/to/image2.png \
  --model gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview \
  --options '{}'