# Realistic City Selfie

- Model: [GPT Image 2](/models/chatgpt-image.md)
- Creator: [Library Avatars (@library.avatars)](/@library.avatars.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: Portraits
- AI keywords: portrait, photo, social post
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- Published: 2026-10-31
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## Prompt

```text
Create a highly realistic casual smartphone selfie that looks like an authentic Instagram Story lifestyle snap taken outdoors in a Japanese city. The subject is a cheerful young woman, {character_name}, with {hair_color}, warm natural makeup, clear glowing skin, small hoop earrings, and a gentle closed-mouth smile while looking directly into the phone camera. She is holding the phone high and slightly wide-angle, arm extended toward the lower-left foreground, creating a natural selfie distortion and an intimate candid feel. She wears a plain white crew-neck T-shirt tucked into light blue high-waisted denim shorts, a thin silver necklace, a white watch or bracelet, and carries a beige canvas tote bag over one shoulder. In her other hand she holds exactly 2 visible items: an iced coffee in a clear plastic cup with a domed lid and black straw, and a white plastic shopping bag. Set the scene on a sunny sidewalk near a crosswalk, with urban storefronts, leafy street trees, a cafe terrace with warm interior lights, tiled pavement, tactile paving, and exactly 1 parked bicycle visible on the right side. Include a few distant pedestrians in the background, softly blurred. Use late-afternoon golden-hour sunlight, natural shadows, realistic skin texture, subtle lens distortion, smartphone HDR look, shallow but not overly artificial depth of field, and a candid everyday fashion-photo mood. The overall atmosphere should be {overall_mood}. No text overlays, no watermark, no beauty-pageant posing, no studio lighting, no fantasy elements.
```

## Variables

Replace each `{variable}` before you paste the prompt.

| Variable | Label | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `{character_name}` | character name | unnamed |
| `{hair_color}` | hair color | short blonde hair with soft face-framing bangs |
| `{overall_mood}` | overall mood | natural, friendly, stylish, and unposed |

## About

Generates a natural Instagram-style lifestyle selfie of a young woman walking through a sunny Japanese city street.

Prompt from YouMind OpenLab (github.com/YouMind-OpenLab).

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.avatars on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/realistic-city-selfie-cqgjmz
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