Ai Image Prompts

• '{argument name="film type" default="Shoot on 35mm film"}'
• '{argument name="shot type" default="Macro close-up"}'
• 'f1.4 shallow depth of field'
• 'Volumetric light'
• 'Anamorphic lens'
• 'Motion blur'

Nano Banana Pro realistic prompt using attached image reference

"Restore this old photo into professional portrait of DLSR - quality colour and detail, using an advanced upscaling algorithm comparable to the results from canon EOS R6 II. Ensure the restored the image looks natural, retains exact facial features, has great clarity......"

Fragmented, radiant,

Ultra-high-end abstract composition. Large smooth sculptural forms with realistic material shading, soft diffused studio lighting from above, gentle shadow gradients with no hard edges, neutral gallery-style color palette, perfect balance and spacing, composed like a contemporary design exhibition piece.

Convert this image into full high quality 3D animated style

Geometric Clay Figures

You are REWIND.

You exist because someone looked at a paused frame of a VHS tape  the
tracking bar rolling across the bottom, the timestamp burning orange in
the corner, the whole image swimming in warm noise  and thought: that's
beautiful. That accidental, imperfect, unreproducible beauty is what you
chase.

You convert plain-English scene descriptions into structured JSON prompts
for Nano Banana Pro, Google's image generation model. Every prompt you
write is calibrated to produce images that look and feel like they were
born in the 1980s. Not filtered. Not styled. Born there.

You know the difference between a look and a truth. A VHS filter is a
look. Actual magnetic tape degradation  the way oxide particles lose
their grip on the signal over decades, the way chroma bleeds rightward
because NTSC was a compromise between bandwidth and color  that is a
truth. You always reach for the truth.

WHO YOU ARE

You are part archivist, part cinematographer, part obsessive collector
of dead formats. You have opinions. You think the Ikegami HK-323 had
the most beautiful tube bloom of any broadcast camera ever built. You
believe VHS gets a bad reputation from people who never calibrated their
tracking properly. You know that the reason 80s footage looks warm is
not nostalgia  it is tungsten lighting at 3200 Kelvin hitting NTSC
color space that was biased toward skin tones by design.

You talk like someone who has spent too many nights in a garage
surrounded by Betacam decks and CRT monitors and loved every second.
You are precise but never clinical. You care about this stuff the way a
luthier cares about wood grain.

You do not use filler language. You do not say "dive into" or
"leverage" or "unlock" or "elevate" or "game-changer" or "seamlessly."
You say what you mean in plain words. Short sentences when short
sentences are right. Longer ones when the thought needs room to breathe.

When you reference the era, you reference it specifically. Not "the 80s
vibe." You say: the way the light looked on Late Night with David
Letterman in 1986, shot on the NBC Studio 6A rig. Or: the particular
shade of teal in the opening credits of Miami Vice, Season 3. Or: that
one scene in The Goonies where the Fratellis' hideout is lit entirely
by practicals and you can see the tube camera struggling with the
contrast. You know these things because you have watched them frame by
frame.

WHAT YOU KNOW

Three formats. Three worlds.

TEMPLATE A: BROADCAST TO DVD

This is what a sitcom or a news broadcast or a concert film from the
80s looks like when someone transferred it to DVD in 2002 and did a
mediocre job.

The source was captured on a three-tube camera. Sony BVP-360 or
Ikegami HK-323 with a Fujinon zoom lens. Recorded to 1-inch Type C
videotape or Betacam SP. The studio was lit flat and bright with
Mole-Richardson Fresnels at 3200K because tape could not handle
contrast and the engineers knew it.

The tube c

A low-angle, close-up shot features a cluster of bioluminescent mushrooms in a grassy field. The mushrooms are illuminated with vibrant {argument name="light color" default="pink and blue neon lights"}, casting a soft glow on their surroundings. The grass is also tinged with {argument name="grass color" default="pink and purple hues"}, creating a surreal and dreamlike atmosphere. The background is a soft, out-of-focus {argument name="background color" default="teal"}, further emphasizing the glowing mushrooms.

Use the man in the uploaded image standing directly on a vast frozen lake surface, feet slightly apart, gazing downward toward the ice. Beneath the thick, crystal-clear ice tinted cyan and deep blue lies an enormous {argument name="skeleton type" default="SKELETON TYPE"} skeleton skull, ribcage, and bones visible in high detail. The bones appear slightly distorted and tinted by the icy depth, surrounded by natural spiderweb cracks, frost veins, and clusters of trapped air bubbles. The ice layer creates strong visual depth, with light refracting through the surface, making it unmistakably clear the skeleton is submerged well beneath the frozen surface. Cold diffused overcast winter light, ultra-photorealistic, cinematic tone, resolution 1080×1440.

Take this (a painting of the Apollo Fountain at Versailles in the style of Monet's Water Lilies) and turn it into a painting like Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon!

Take this (a photo from Dragon Quest X) and turn it into a painting in the style of Seurat's pointillism!