Flare Text-to-Image Portraits: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Realistic and Artistic Styles

Using the Flare variant of gpt-image-2.5 as the generation pipeline, this demonstrates how the same subject, "portrait," differs under two prompt orientations: one end is a realistic portrait close to studio lighting, and the other is an artistic treatment with a painterly texture. Through fixed composition descriptions and explicit texture and lighting vocabulary, the work lets developers understand through comparison exactly what the prompt controls—the material expression of skin and hair strands, the direction and softness/hardness of the light source, depth of field, and color orientation. It uses a 2:3 vertical composition and 2K resolution, making it suitable as a prompt starting point for portrait applications, character assets, and visual prototype validation; the resolution and aspect_ratio in the Schema are explicit optional parameters, and background only takes effect at 1K, so this example no longer sets a separate background mode.