Restyle my photo as an early-2000s digital camera snapshot on a night out. Harsh on-camera flash, overexposed face, background dropping to black two feet away. Low resolution and heavy sharpening halos around edges, visible JPEG artefacts, slight purple fringing on high-contrast lines. Y2K styling — low-rise, butterfly clips, frosted lips, tiny sunglasses on the head, a flip phone in hand. Slightly tilted, badly framed, gloriously unposed. 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.
“Use it” opens the editor with this prompt already loaded — add your photo and generate. Copy works anywhere else: ChatGPT, Gemini, Midjourney.
The bad quality is the aesthetic. Don't ask for it in 4K — ask for 'low resolution with visible compression'.