Graduation portrait in gown and cap

This prompt turns your photo into a graduation portrait. You choose the gown, cap and stole colours and the background, such as a university building, and your face and features stay the same.

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Turn this photo into a graduation portrait. Keep my face and features exactly the same.

Put me in a [COLOUR] graduation gown and cap with a [COLOUR] stole. Background: [e.g. university library / campus lawn]. Bright, proud, natural smile as in the original. Sharp studio-quality light, realistic fabric folds and no extra text.

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Upload a clear waist-up photo. Full-body shots lose face detail.

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What you will get

A graduation portrait of you in the gown, cap and stole colours you chose, with a proud natural smile, studio-quality light, realistic fabric folds and the background you picked, with your face unchanged.

Why it works

A graduation portrait should look like the real day, so the prompt keeps your face and your natural smile from the original. A gown, cap and stole in your colours and a library or campus lawn background set the scene. Asking for realistic fabric folds and no extra text keeps it clean for framing.

Common mistake

The cap or tassel looks flat or floats above the head.

Fix: Say “the cap sits flat on the head with a tassel hanging on the right side”. A waist-up photo with your hair visible works best.

Also watch for

Your university’s colours or crest appear wrong. Name the colours only, and add any crest yourself later. Do not ask the AI to draw a real university logo.
Your smile changes. Add “keep my smile and expression exactly as in the photo”, and choose a photo where you already look happy.

Try a variation: make a thank-you card

Ask for “the same portrait with an empty strip along the bottom for a thank-you message”. Write the words yourself for the family and teachers.

Still not right? Reply with this

Keep my face and smile exactly the same. Make the gown a deeper blue, lower the stole slightly and blur the library behind me.