AI Creative OS
01Lock two faces, hero first02Navy studio, one softbox03Give every frame one sign of age04Kill the plastic defaults05Settings and QC

8K AI Realism · DECADES Pack

The real-skin process behind the carousel: one couple in their 80s with deep forehead furrows, liver spots, crepey hands and silver flyaways, a navy studio, and the exact settings I used in GPT Image 2 on Higgsfield. The eight ready prompts live inside AI Creative OS.
DECADES pack slide 01: hero
01 HERO
DECADES pack slide 02: hands
02 HANDS
DECADES pack slide 03: his eye
03 HIS EYE
DECADES pack slide 04: her smile
04 HER SMILE
DECADES pack slide 05: foreheads
05 FOREHEADS
DECADES pack slide 06: his ear
06 HIS EAR
DECADES pack slide 07: her laugh
07 HER LAUGH
DECADES pack slide 08: temple kiss
08 TEMPLE KISS
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01Identity
Lock two faces, hero first

Make one hero with both of them in it, then make it the reference for everything else. The hero prompt writes both identities once:

  • an 84-year-old Southern Italian man with thick swept-back pure white hair and bushy white eyebrows
  • olive skin, liver spots on the temples, dark brown eyes, a charcoal wool sweater
  • an 81-year-old woman with long silver-white hair in a loose low bun
  • fair skin with rosy cheeks, freckles, hazel eyes, a cream linen blouse

For shots 02 to 08 I attached that hero as the only image reference. Every prompt opens with one line that names both people again: same faces, his white hair and brows, her silver bun, same spots and wrinkles, same clothes.

With two people, the clothes matter as much as the faces. They are what tells the model whose hand or shoulder is whose in the close-ups.

02Studio
Navy studio, one softbox

Every shot names the same room and the same camera, word for word:

  • medium-format digital camera
  • 100mm macro lens, f/8
  • one large softbox key light 45 degrees camera-right with a soft white bounce fill on the left
  • deep navy blue seamless studio paper backdrop

Only the Shot: line changes between frames. That fixed opening is what makes eight separate generations read as one real shoot.

For the hero and the last frame, ask for empty navy space at the bottom so there is room for text later.

03Texture
Give every frame one sign of age

AI loves young, smooth faces. Two people in their 80s only look real when you name every sign of age, then give each close-up its own job:

  • hands: raised veins, liver spots, knuckle creases, worn wedding bands
  • his eye: hooded lid, wiry white brow hairs, deep crow's feet
  • her smile: fine vertical lip lines and deep smile folds
  • foreheads: the softbox rakes across both foreheads so the furrows go razor sharp
  • his ear: fine white ear hairs and liver spots on the temple

Each shot line tells the model exactly where the texture should be sharp.

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04Negatives
Kill the plastic defaults

Every prompt ends with the same two lines:

  • True skin: visible pores, vellus hair, natural sheen, slight asymmetry, no retouching, no beauty filter, no makeup.
  • Not plastic, not airbrushed, not CGI, no HDR, no text, no watermark.

The first line says what real skin has. The second refuses the defaults that make AI faces look waxy.

No lipstick matters here: it hides exactly the lines you want to show.

05Ship
Settings and QC
  • ModelGPT Image 2 on Higgsfield
  • Aspect3:4, cropped to 4:5
  • Resolution2K (1744 x 2336)
  • Qualityhigh
  • Referencenone for shot 01; shots 02 to 08 use the shot 01 hero
  • Finals1080 x 1350, text added afterwards

Nothing is baked into the generated images, so the text always goes on last.

QC zoomed in. Regenerate just that one frame when:

  • either face gets younger
  • the two faces swap or merge
  • a hand gets an extra finger
  • the pores melt

Keep the rest of the set as it is. The eight ready prompts are in the members pack below.

🔒 DECADES pack · members
8 real prompts + the exact settings

This guide is the full process. The ready-made pack lives inside AI Creative OS on Skool, next to every other prompt pack I post.

  • All 8 prompts, word for word: hero, hands, his eye, her smile, foreheads, his ear, her laugh, temple kiss
  • The settings block for Higgsfield
  • The hero-first reference workflow for two faces, ready to paste
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