# Then vs Now Identity Transformation Collage

- Model: [GPT Image 2](/models/chatgpt-image.md)
- Creator: [Library Lifestyle (@library.lifestyle)](/@library.lifestyle.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: GPT Image 2
- AI keywords: portrait, warm, photo
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- Published: 2026-11-01
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## Prompt

```text
Use the uploaded reference photo ONLY for facial identity. Preserve the exact facial structure, facial proportions, eye shape, eyebrows, nose, lips, jawline, ears, skin tone, hairstyle characteristics, and overall identity with extremely high accuracy. Do not beautify, stylize, or change the person's face. The child version must unmistakably look like the same person at approximately 6 years old—not a different child.\n\nCreate a premium "THEN vs NOW" two-frame vertical collage in a 4:5 aspect ratio.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\nTOP FRAME — CHILDHOOD\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nTransform the reference person into an adorable 6-year-old child while maintaining identical facial identity.\n\nDisplay ONLY the year when the person was approximately 6 years old (NOT the birth year).\n\nExamples:\n• Born 1989 → 1995\n• Born 1996 → 2002\n• Born 2002 → 2008\n\nThe child wears a beautiful pastel outfit that matches the person's style (cute dress for women, stylish casual outfit for men) with soft harmonious colours.\n\nScene: Sitting beside a large sunlit window inside a warm, cozy home. Golden afternoon sunlight fills the room. Soft pillows, teddy bears, books, flowers or tasteful décor create a nostalgic childhood atmosphere.\n\nNatural smile, sparkling eyes, innocent expression, authentic proportions, realistic hands, natural skin texture, subtle imperfections, genuine family-photo feeling.\n\nPlace the calculated year in a clean minimalist white font on the left side.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\nBOTTOM FRAME — PRESENT\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nDisplay the same person in 2026 with identical facial identity and natural age.\n\nDress them in a premium fashionable outfit inspired by their public style and personality while keeping the look elegant, tasteful and luxurious.\n\nScene: Standing outside or inside a beautiful modern café with warm ambient lighting, cinematic bokeh, premium lifestyle editorial photography, relaxed confident pose, luxurious yet natural atmosphere.\n\nDisplay the text:\n\n2026\n\nusing the same minimalist white font on the left side.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\nSTYLE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nUltra-realistic\n\nPhotorealistic\n\nPerfect facial identity preservation\n\nAccurate age regression\n\nNatural ageing consistency\n\nCinematic lighting\n\nSony A7R V\n\n85mm portrait lens\n\nf/1.8\n\nHDR\n\nTrue-to-life colours\n\nPremium editorial photography\n\nNatural skin texture\n\nAuthentic pores\n\nSubtle film grain\n\nCreamy bokeh\n\nShallow depth of field\n\nLuxury colour grading\n\nMuseum-quality realism\n\nExtremely detailed\n\n8K\n\nMasterpiece\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\nNEGATIVE PROMPT\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nidentity change, different face, different person, incorrect age progression, wrong facial proportions, anime, cartoon, CGI, painting, illustration, doll face, plastic skin, AI-looking face, unrealistic child, deformed anatomy, blurry, low quality, extra fingers, extra limbs, duplicate body parts, watermark, logo, captions, subtitles, oversaturated colours, artifacts, incorrect year, text errors, cropped face, distorted hands
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## About

A sophisticated prompt for creating a vertical comparison collage that transforms a reference person into their childhood self and a present-day version.

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

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.lifestyle on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/then-vs-now-identity-transformation-collage-9zk2sh
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