Turn Your Photo into Four Surreal AI Images

September 30, 2026

Four copy-and-paste prompts to try with your own photo.

I saw a series of AI images on Instagram and wanted to try the idea myself.

So I uploaded two photos of me.

A few prompts later, a giant version of me was pouring coffee from a brick wall. Another was handing me a rose.

Same face. Same brown blazer. Very different surroundings.

Want to try it?

Below are four prompts you can copy and use with your own photo.

Upload a clear photo of yourself, then paste one complete prompt into the image generator. A full-body photo helps if you want to keep your trousers and shoes, too.

Each prompt asks it to preserve your appearance and outfit while changing the scene.

The images won’t be identical to mine. Check the face, hands, and small details, and ask for adjustments where needed.

Here’s what we made — and the prompts to try yourself.

1. Coffee from the mural

Prompt:

Use the uploaded photo as the identity and outfit reference. Preserve the person’s recognizable facial features, age, hairstyle, body proportions, clothing, colors, and visible accessories. If any part of the outfit or footwear is outside the photo, complete it naturally in a matching style. If the person appears twice in the scene, both versions must clearly depict the same person wearing the same outfit.

Create a photorealistic vertical 4:5 image. The person stands in full color on a sidewalk in front of a dark brick wall, holding out a takeaway coffee cup and looking upward.

An enormous black-and-white painted mural of the same person fills the wall behind them. The mural figure looks down and tilts a stainless steel coffee pot. A continuous stream of coffee appears to flow from the painted pot into the real person’s cup. Align the stream precisely with the cup to create a convincing optical illusion.

Keep the brick texture visible through the painted portrait. Show the real person’s entire body and shoes. Use natural daylight, realistic skin and fabric textures, and anatomically correct hands.

No text, logos, arrows, watermarks, or social media interface.

2. A rose from the mural

Prompt:

Use the uploaded photo as the identity and outfit reference. Preserve the person’s recognizable facial features, age, hairstyle, body proportions, clothing, colors, and visible accessories. If any part of the outfit or footwear is outside the photo, complete it naturally in a matching style. If the person appears twice in the scene, both versions must clearly depict the same person wearing the same outfit.

Create a photorealistic vertical 4:5 image. An enormous black-and-white painted mural of the person fills the left side of a dark brick wall. The real person stands in full color on the right, holding a takeaway coffee cup in one hand.

The mural figure offers a single red rose with green leaves. The real person reaches out with their free hand to receive it, looking up at their painted self with a warm smile. Both hands hold the same rose stem, creating a convincing interaction between the painting and reality.

Keep the mural monochrome, with the brick texture visible through it. Keep the rose and the real person in color. Show the real person’s entire body and shoes. Use natural daylight and anatomically correct hands.

No text, logos, arrows, watermarks, or social media interface.

3. Coffee from the phone

Prompt:

Use the uploaded photo as the identity and outfit reference. Preserve the person’s recognizable facial features, age, hairstyle, body proportions, clothing, colors, and visible accessories. If any part of the outfit or footwear is outside the photo, complete it naturally in a matching style. If the person appears twice in the scene, both versions must clearly depict the same person wearing the same outfit.

Create a photorealistic vertical 4:5 image. A hand holds a black smartphone upright above a rustic wooden table. On the phone screen, the person from the uploaded photo smiles warmly while tilting a brass gooseneck coffee kettle.

A continuous stream of coffee flows from the kettle inside the screen, crosses out of the screen into the real world, and pours into a white porcelain coffee cup on a saucer on the table. Make this impossible interaction visually clear, with the stream precisely aligned with the cup.

Show the person’s face clearly on the screen. Include gentle steam rising from the coffee, scattered coffee beans, and a softly blurred burlap sack in the background. Use warm lighting, realistic textures, and an anatomically correct hand. Keep the entire cup and saucer visible.

No text, logos, arrows, watermarks, or phone interface.

4. Meeting your giant self

Prompt:

Use the uploaded photo as the identity and outfit reference. Preserve the person’s recognizable facial features, age, hairstyle, body proportions, clothing, colors, and visible accessories. If any part of the outfit or footwear is outside the photo, complete it naturally in a matching style. If the person appears twice in the scene, both versions must clearly depict the same person wearing the same outfit.

Create a photorealistic vertical 4:5 image in a modern city with tall glass buildings and a huge curved digital billboard.

On the billboard, a giant version of the person leans forward, smiles, and points downward with one index finger. Below, the real person sits on a stationary burgundy sports motorcycle at a crosswalk, with one foot on the ground and one hand on the handlebar. They look up and extend their other index finger toward their giant self.

The two index fingertips must touch precisely at the lower edge of the billboard, creating a clear forced-perspective illusion. Both versions must be recognizable as the same person.

Place the giant portrait in the upper part of the image and show the entire motorcycle below. Use bright daylight, a blue sky, realistic building reflections, and anatomically correct hands.

No text, logos, arrows, watermarks, or social media interface.