Put yourself on a magazine cover

This prompt creates a glossy magazine cover from your photo, with your face kept the same. You give the magazine name, a cover headline and the style, fashion, business or travel.

photo-magazine-cover-you — gemini — 55 words

Create a glossy magazine cover using this photo. Keep my face and features exactly the same.

Magazine name: "[MAGAZINE NAME]". Cover line: "[HEADLINE]". Style: [FASHION / BUSINESS / TRAVEL]. Confident pose, studio lighting, clean layout with masthead at the top, 3 short cover lines on the left, no barcode and no logos of real brands.

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Keep text short and in quotes for cleaner lettering.

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What you will get

A glossy magazine cover with you on it: a masthead at the top, three short cover lines on the left, a confident studio pose and your face unchanged, with no barcode and no real brand logos.

Why it works

Real covers follow a layout, so the prompt asks for a masthead at the top and three short cover lines on the left. Keeping text short and in quotes, as the tip says, helps the lettering. Banning barcodes and real brand logos keeps it a fun mock cover, not a copy.

Common mistake

The masthead or cover lines come out misspelt.

Fix: Use the tip and keep the text short and in quotes. If a word is wrong, regenerate, or add the text yourself in an editor such as Canva.

Also watch for

The text covers your face. Add “all cover lines sit on the left, and the face and eyes stay clear of any text”.
It copies a real magazine’s style or logo. Invent a name and say “no real brand logos or barcodes”, as the prompt does, so the cover is clearly your own.

Try a variation: travel cover

Change the style to “travel” and add “a blurred mountain lake behind me, cover lines about slow trips and packing light”. Write the cover lines yourself for a more personal feel.

Still not right? Reply with this

Keep my exact face from the original photo: same eyes, nose, smile, skin tone and age. Change only the style.