Seedream 4.5 Portrait Image-to-Image: Realistic and Artistic Dual-Style Reference
Using the Seedream 4.5 image-to-image pipeline, this demonstrates how a single portrait reference image can be pushed in two different visual directions by two distinct editing instructions: first, a realistic photographic finish that preserves skin texture, subsurface scattering, and natural light ratios; second, a cinematic artistic treatment that retains the subject's structure but reconstructs it with volumetric fog and stage lighting. The work drives image_urls with the same reference portrait (a 3:4 portrait base image generated by assets), provides aspect_ratio and resolution in base, and writes the editing instruction into input.prompt at the top level, demonstrating the pipeline's controllability over character structure preservation, lighting reconstruction, and skin material restoration. It is suitable for developers who want to learn how to write prompts for image-to-image portrait styles, the division of labor between reference images and editing instructions, and scenarios requiring stable character consistency such as e-commerce portraits, concept design, and social media deliverables.
Style Portrait & Photography · Photorealistic · style-transfer
Model Seedream 4.5
Reference inputs

image_urls
Prompt
Perform image-to-image portrait editing based on a single reference photo. Preserve the subject's facial structure, identity proportions, and hairstyle silhouette while refining skin texture, retaining visible pores, subtle subsurface scattering, and natural asymmetry; keep the eyes and hair strands sharp. Relight with a soft directional key light from the left side of the camera, gentle falloff, realistic ambient fill, and a faint rim light on the shoulders to separate the subject from a blurred neutral studio background. Realistic commercial portrait, 85mm equivalent compression, shallow depth of field, natural color science, no beauty-retouching plastic look, 3:4 vertical composition, 2K high detail.
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