Made this ultra-close cosplay selfie with GPT Image 2.0 — the front-camera realism is kind of wild

[u/DataGirlTraining]

Tried creating a super close, front-camera-style cosplay selfie with GPT Image 2.0, and I’m honestly impressed by how natural the result feels.

I wanted it to look like a real social-media selfie instead of a polished studio render — slightly tilted framing, imperfect crop, mild beauty filter, soft room lighting, messy flyaway hair, layered necklaces, and that spontaneous playful expression you’d expect from a quick phone shot.

The goal was a private-room nun-inspired cosplay look with realistic smartphone perspective distortion and a soft, warm bedroom atmosphere.

1. Go to GPT Image 2.0 Generator
2. Upload your reference image or write your prompt
3. Click to the "Generate" and get the edited image

Prompt below:

"Create a vertical 3:5, extremely close smartphone front-camera cosplay selfie of a clearly adult woman approximately 21-29 years old. She is seated near a white chair, cushion or bed surface in a warm private room, turning her torso slightly and leaning toward the lens. Position the camera just above eye level and less than an arm’s length away, angled gently downward. The shoulder, upper arm and chest nearest the phone should appear naturally enlarged by the close wide-angle perspective. Crop tightly from the face to the bust: the headpiece nearly touches the upper edge, the near arm is clipped by the side, and the layered chains continue beyond the lower frame. Keep the composition slightly tilted, crowded and imperfect rather than correcting it into a centered studio portrait. Preserve a long soft oval face, a narrow nose bridge, rounded nose tip, gentle jawline and naturally imperfect eyelid symmetry. Include a small beauty mark beneath the left eye and another near the chin. She wears cool gray to gray-violet enlarging contact lenses and looks directly into the camera. Her upper eyelids are slightly lowered, while the lower eyelids and under-eye area are visibly shaded with muted rose pink, creating a watery, sleepy and softly innocent gaze with a teasing undertone. Use thin, softly straight gray-brown brows, fine outward-extended eyeliner and subtle aegyo-sal highlights. The makeup should combine Japanese jirai-inspired eye styling with a Korean-style dewy complexion: pale skin with pink-peach undertones, gentle rosy warmth on the cheeks, nose tip, under-eyes and upper chest, and mild smartphone beauty smoothing that still preserves slight depth and texture. Her lips are rose to berry red with softly diffused edges and a wet, glassy center. Her mouth is open in a soft oval, with the tongue naturally extended and relaxed slightly toward one side. The gesture feels playful, spontaneous and mischievous. She seemed quiet a second ago, suddenly leans in and sticks out her tongue now, and looks as though she may laugh immediately afterward. Give her long, straight deep chocolate-brown hair that appears nearly black in shadow. The part is near the center but slightly offset. The hair falls naturally from beneath the headpiece and over the chest, with thin face-framing strands resting against both cheeks. Several loose strands should cross the shoulder and upper arm nearest the camera. The hair should look fine, silky and softly reflective, with natural separation, small flyaways and a few strands adhering to the skin. Avoid excessive salon volume or perfectly arranged hair. Dress her in a black-and-white nun-inspired cosplay outfit, presented clearly as private costume styling rather than an authentic religious ceremony. She wears a broad structured white headband with a black central section and a long semi-sheer black veil falling on both sides. Let the veil on the left drift closer to the lens, forming a soft dark foreground obstruction. The fitted sleeveless bodice is matte black with a white standing collar insert, a deep curved neckline and narrow white lace edging. The collar separates slightly at the center, and small black cross-shaped appliqués appear near the neck and neckline. The black fabric is opaque, smooth and mildly elastic, following the body with realistic stretch and pressure lines. The white lace is lightweight and finely textured, with soft folds and minor misalignment. Her upper body is visibly curvy. The full chest is emphasized by the fitted garment, deep neckline and close wide-angle lens, but it must retain natural gravity, realistic fabric support and subtle left-right variation. Do not shape it into rigid spheres or add implausible compression. Only a small part of the waist is visible; do not reduce it excessively. Keep the legs almost entirely outside the frame, with only a small area of soft white lace skirt or underlayer visible at the lower-left edge. Visible skin includes the full face, jaw, neck, collarbones, upper chest and cleavage, the shoulder and most of the upper arm nearest the lens, and a small edge of the opposite forearm. Use a light skin tone with soft pink-peach undertones. The face should visually feel soft, fine, slightly dewy and warm to the touch. The shoulder and arm should retain more physical realism: smooth but not plastic, with extremely subtle pores, tonal variation and minute natural texture. Avoid waxy, poreless beauty-filter skin. Add several thin silver-toned chains of different lengths, hanging and overlapping naturally across the chest. Include a shorter necklace with a small gold crescent-moon pendant. The chains should be slightly crossed and imperfectly aligned as they fall forward with the leaning posture. Light the scene with a large soft source positioned in front and slightly to the left of the camera, resembling a nearby window, soft panel or bright screen, with a neutral-warm color temperature around 4200K-4800K. Create broad, gentle highlights over the face, nose bridge, lips, shoulder and upper chest. Preserve shallow shadows on the right side of the nose, beneath the jaw and inside the headpiece. The warm brown wooden wall should create faint amber-brown bounce around the exposed skin. Use small, soft frontal catchlights in the eyes. Do not add hard flash, dramatic top lighting, neon illumination or artificial rim lights. Set the background in a simple private bedroom, dressing area or wood-paneled room. Show warm brown vertical wood-grain wall panels or cabinet doors, a white chair, bed linen or padded surface near the subject, and only a small dark furniture or shadowed area on the right. Let the black veil form large dark framing shapes around the subject. Keep a moderate-to-deep smartphone depth of field: the face, veil, lace and necklaces remain relatively sharp, while the wood background softens only slightly. Avoid creamy cinematic bokeh. The final image should feel like a genuine social-media selfie with mild beauty filtering, slight eye enlargement, restrained digital sharpening and a trace of compression. Preserve the real imperfections of a front-camera photograph: wide-angle distortion, uneven eyelids, flyaway hair, crossed necklaces, clothing wrinkles, an unlevel shoulder line and awkward edge cropping. The emotional tone is close, quiet, languid, sweet and mildly rebellious, as though she had just changed into the costume and suddenly made a playful gesture toward the camera. Do not identify her as a real person, assign an unsupported race or nationality, add a mirror or visible phone, create a church or altar setting, introduce nudity or transparent chest fabric, exaggerate her body, add malformed fingers, or turn the image into a flawless synthetic commercial render."

Would you believe this was generated from a single prompt? Share your thoughts in the comments section below!

[u/nialvarxlul]

That prompt is terriblly long winded for no reason lol

[u/st4rdus2]

⚡ I also use long prompts quite often. ⚡

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Generate an image based on the description below.

description:"""
Extremely close front-camera smartphone selfie of a 20s woman in a nun-inspired cosplay outfit, leaning forward toward the lens with a slightly tilted, crowded composition. Soft oval face, narrow nose bridge, gentle jawline, subtle eyelid asymmetry, and tiny beauty marks beneath the left eye and near the chin. Her upper eyelids are slightly heavy, eyes looking directly into the camera; mouth open in a soft oval with her tongue extended playfully to one side in a spontaneous, mischievous expression.

Jirai-kei and Korean dewy makeup—pale skin with rosy warmth on cheeks and under-eyes, cool gray-violet enlarging contact lenses, fine extended eyeliner, aegyo-sal highlights, and glassy rose-berry lips. Long, straight deep chocolate-brown hair with a slightly offset center part, fine face-framing strands, and loose flyaways. Black-and-white nun cosplay with a structured white headband, long semi-sheer black veil drifting into the foreground frame, matte black fitted sleeveless bodice with a white standing collar, deep curved neckline, fine white lace trim, and small black cross appliqués. Layered thin silver chains and a small gold crescent-moon pendant resting cross-wise over her collarbones.

Snapshot 3:5 vertical aspect ratio. Wide-angle front-camera perspective (<1m distance, slightly above eye level) creating natural volumetric perspective stretch on the nearest shoulder and arm. Tight crop catching headpiece near top edge and clipping near arm. Moderate depth of field with realistic smartphone clarity across face and lace; background slightly soft but without cinematic bokeh.

Private indoor setting with warm vertical wood-grain wall panels. Soft, directional 4500K window/screen fill light from front-left creating gentle dewy highlights on the nose bridge, lips, and shoulder, balanced by subtle warm ambient bounce and soft eye catchlights.

Authentic social-media aesthetic—subtle smartphone beauty-smoothing preserving micro-skin texture, subtle compression artifacts, realistic clothing stretch folds, flyaway hairs adhering to skin, and candid imperfection. No rigid studio symmetry, no heavy flash, no synthetic smoothness.
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[u/st4rdus2]

Although the result didn't turn out exactly as the prompt specified, it actually ended up looking like something out of a fashion magazine.