# Retro 80s ChatGPT Prompts

Restyle the person in this photo as a 1987 shopping-mall glamour shot portrait, the kind taken in a department store studio. Preserve facial identity exactly: keep the bone structure, eye shape and spacing, nose, jawline, mouth and any distinguishing marks recognisably the same person, and keep the skin tone exactly as it appears in the photo. Change only hair, wardrobe, makeup, lighting and background. Hair: voluminous feathered and teased, curled back from the face, lacquered so it holds its shape and catches the rim light. Wardrobe: an off-the-shoulder black sequinned top. Makeup: frosted pink lipstick, heavy peach blush swept high on the cheekbone, blue-grey shimmer on the eyelid. Lighting: a soft key from the upper left through heavy diffusion, a strong warm rim light raking the hair from behind so the edges glow, and enough fill that shadows stay open and creamy — no hard shadow anywhere on the face. Background: a mottled blue-grey painted canvas studio backdrop, thrown well out of focus. Optics: shot on a medium telephoto portrait lens with a soft-focus filter over it, so highlights bloom and spread into a gentle halo and fine skin texture melts away. Film character: warm Kodak Gold — warm and slightly magenta in the midtones, with a faint hazy lift in the blacks and visible fine grain. Pose: a closed-lip smile, shoulders turned away from camera and chin lifted and angled back toward the lens. Framing: vertical head-and-shoulders portrait, the subject placed slightly off-centre with room above the hair. Quality: authentic 1980s studio portrait photograph, sincere rather than parodic, printed on glossy paper.

Restyle the person in this photo as a senior class portrait from a 1987 high school yearbook. Preserve facial identity exactly: bone structure, eye shape and spacing, nose, jawline, mouth and any distinguishing marks stay recognisably the same person, and the skin tone stays exactly as it appears in the photo. Age the face to roughly seventeen if it is not already there, changing only apparent age and never identity. Change only hair, wardrobe, lighting and background. Hair: feathered back from a centre part and blow-dried into wings at the temples, falling to the collar. Wardrobe: a grey marl sweater vest over a pale blue button-down shirt with a wide pointed collar worn outside the vest. Background: a mottled blue and grey painted canvas studio backdrop. Lighting: a single soft studio key from the upper left with a broad fill card on the right, a subtle hair light separating the head from the background, and a gentle falloff that darkens the lower corners of the frame. Pose: body turned three-quarters away from camera with the head rotated back toward the lens, shoulders squared, hands out of frame, a small closed-lip smile. Optics: medium-format studio portrait lens, moderate depth of field so the ears stay sharp and the backdrop goes soft. Film character: warm Kodak Gold, with slightly warm skin tones, mild contrast and visible fine grain, printed small on semi-gloss yearbook stock so the detail is a touch soft. Framing: vertical head-and-shoulders portrait, cropped just below the collarbone, generous headroom. Quality: earnest, unironic 1980s school photograph.

Restyle the person in this photo as a prom night portrait taken in a school gymnasium in 1985. Preserve facial identity exactly: bone structure, eye shape and spacing, nose, jawline, mouth and any distinguishing marks stay recognisably the same person, and the skin tone stays exactly as it appears in the photo. Change only hair, wardrobe, pose, lighting and background. Hair: teased high at the crown and curled into loose ringlets at the shoulders, held with a wide satin bow. Wardrobe: a powder-blue taffeta gown with enormous puffed sleeves, a fitted dropped waist and a full gathered skirt. Accessories: a white wrist corsage of carnations and a thin gold chain. Background: an arch of pastel balloons, a few feet behind the subject so it falls off into shadow at the edges of the frame. Lighting: a hard direct on-camera flash as the only real light — bright and flat on the face, a crisp shadow thrown low and close behind the shoulder, hot specular highlights on satin and skin, and the corners of the frame dropping quickly into darkness because nothing else in the room is lit. Pose: one hand resting on the opposite forearm, a wide closed-lip smile, standing, weight on one hip, slightly stiff and posed for the photographer rather than caught naturally. Framing: vertical three-quarter-length portrait from mid-thigh up. Film character: consumer colour negative pushed a stop, warm and a little green in the shadows, noticeable grain, the whites slightly blown where the flash hits hardest. Quality: an authentic amateur-feeling 1980s prom photograph, sincere rather than parodic.

Restyle the people in this photo as a department-store family portrait taken in 1986, in the cheerfully awkward style those studios were famous for. Preserve every face exactly: for each person keep the bone structure, eye shape and spacing, nose, jawline and mouth recognisably the same, and keep each person's skin tone exactly as it appears in the photo. Keep the same number of people as the original photo and do not add anyone. Change only hair, wardrobe, arrangement, lighting and background. Wardrobe: matching chunky knit turtleneck sweaters — coordinated across the whole group so they visibly match, in cream, rust and forest green. Hair: feathered and blow-dried on every one of them, styled with obvious effort. Arrangement: stacked on a diagonal leaning inward — heads deliberately staggered at different heights on a diagonal, everyone leaning in toward the centre, each person resting a hand on the shoulder of the one in front. Expressions: wide committed smiles, held a beat too long. Background: a black studio backdrop with soft coloured laser starbursts fanning out behind them. Lighting: an even two-light studio setup, soft key and near-equal fill, almost no shadow on any face, plus a hair light that separates every head cleanly from the background. Optics: medium telephoto studio lens with enough depth of field that every face stays sharp. Film character: warm colour negative with slightly amber midtones, mild contrast and visible fine grain. Framing: vertical group portrait, cropped at the waist, everyone comfortably inside the frame. Quality: an earnest 1980s studio family photograph, affectionate rather than mocking.

Restyle the person in this photo as a synthwave portrait set against an 80s retro-futuristic horizon. Preserve facial identity exactly: bone structure, eye shape and spacing, nose, jawline, mouth and any distinguishing marks stay recognisably the same person, and keep the underlying skin tone as it appears in the photo, letting the coloured light fall across it rather than repainting it. Change only wardrobe, lighting, colour and background. Wardrobe: a black leather bomber jacket with the collar turned up. Lighting: two hard coloured rim lights and almost no frontal fill — hot magenta from the left and electric cyan from the right — raking the face from behind on both sides so the jawline, cheekbone and shoulders are drawn in glowing edges while the centre of the face falls into cool shadow. Background: an infinite neon grid horizon under a low amber sun, deep in the frame and well out of focus. Atmosphere: heavy haze catching the light so every beam is visible as a soft volumetric shaft, with slow drifting dust motes drifting through it. Colour grading: crushed blacks lifted just slightly toward navy, saturated magenta and cyan in the highlights, a warm amber core where the sun sits on the horizon. Optics: anamorphic lens character with horizontal flare streaks pulling off the brightest highlights, shallow depth of field, oval bokeh. Pose: chin level, looking directly down the lens, jaw set, shot from slightly below eye level. Framing: vertical head-and-shoulders portrait. Quality: high-resolution cinematic portrait in the style of an 80s synthwave album cover, crisp edges against soft haze.