Restage my photo as a full-bleed Instagram story frame. Place me in the lower half of the tall frame with the setting filling the rest. Keep the top 250 pixels and the bottom 250 pixels visually quiet — no faces, no text, no critical detail — because the app's own interface sits there. Add a soft dark gradient from the bottom edge so white text will read over it. Vertical composition with real depth: something close, me in the middle, a background falling away. Keep my face, bone structure, natural skin tone and identity exactly as they are in my photo — change the styling around me, never who I am. The result must read as a real photograph: natural skin texture with visible pores, believable light direction and shadow falloff, correct anatomy and hands.
“Use it” opens the editor with this prompt already loaded — add your photo and generate. Copy works anywhere else: ChatGPT, Gemini, Midjourney.
Stories get eaten at the top and bottom by the app UI. That's what the quiet bands are for.