Based on the **1 clear current photo of myself** I uploaded, please generate an emotional photography piece of "**My childhood self and my current self celebrating a birthday together**".
Please strictly retain the **real identity features** from my current photo, including:
Face shape, facial feature proportions, eye and eyebrow structure, nose, lips, jawline, skin tone, sense of age, hairline, hairstyle features, and overall aura.
**Do not turn me into another person, do not Westernize, do not make it look like an internet celebrity, do not over-beautify, and do not generate a fake AI face.**
The whole image must make it obvious at a glance: the child and the adult in the picture are the same person at different stages of life.
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## Core Scene Setting
Generate a **4:5 vertical**, highly realistic photography piece.
There are **two figures** in the picture:
- One is **the childhood version of me**
- One is **the current me**
The two figures must appear in the **same real scene, same photo, same lighting, and same color tone**, as if they are really sitting together celebrating a birthday and taking a commemorative photo.
**No dividing lines, no split screens, no dual-scene splicing, no half black-and-white half color.**
The whole thing must look like a naturally and realistically shot birthday group photo, not a poster collage.
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## Character Relationship and Emotion
This is a photo about "**The current me and the childhood me meeting and celebrating a birthday together**".
There should be an obvious **emotional connection and sense of communication** between the two, as if gently meeting in the same time and space.
**Emotion keywords:**
Warm, healing, quiet, soft, touching, growth, self-reconciliation, sense of time flowing
**It can be an interactive state like this:**
- The two looking at each other
- Or looking down at the cake together
- Or the adult gently looking at their childhood self, while the child responds naturally and happily
The overall feeling should be like:
**On this birthday, the grown-up me finally sits down to accompany my childhood self to blow out the candles.**
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## Left Figure: Childhood Version of Me
Please reasonably generate a childhood version of me based on my current appearance, **age about [Childhood age, e.g.: 5 years old / 6 years old / 7 years old]**.
This child must retain identity features that echo my current self, making it recognizable as "my childhood self", including:
- Continuity of facial contours
- Continuity of eye expression and aura
- Continuity of face shape features
- The overall aura of "looking like the same person"
**Childhood version requirements:**
- Natural sense of age, like a real child
- Innocent, warm, natural expression
- Simple daily clothing, can be a light gray T-shirt, knit top, or simple children's wear
- Natural sitting posture, not stiff
- Can smile, look at the current me, or look at the cake
- **Cannot be a strange child, must have a strong sense of "this is me as a child"**
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## Right Figure: Current Me
The right side is the current me, **must strictly reference the appearance in my uploaded photo**.
**Adult version requirements:**
- Face must match the reference photo
- Looks like the current me, real and natural
- Sense of age consistent with current state
- Wearing clean, nice daily clothes, can be a white / beige / light-colored top paired with blue jeans
- Natural and relaxed posture
- Can rest chin on hands, or naturally rest hands on the table
- Looking at the childhood self with a **gentle, calm, restrained smile**
**Adult version emotion focus:**
As if gently watching the past self, accompanying her / him to grow up.
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## Cake and Age Elements
Place a **real and natural birthday cake** in the middle or slightly foreground of the picture.
The cake should become one of the emotional centers of the picture, but not steal the show.
**Requirements:**
- Cake placed in the center of the table
- Simple, real, natural shape, suitable for a birthday atmosphere
- **Lit number candles** on the cake
- Number candle content is: **[Current age]**
- Candlelight is soft and warm, slightly illuminating the faces of the two figures and the cake surface
- The cake is an important symbol of "the current me and the childhood me celebrating a birthday together"
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## Year Information
Please present the following years in **low-key, simple, elegant small text** in the picture:
- Near or above the childhood figure: **([Childhood year])**
- Near or above the current figure: **([Current year])**
The font should be simple and natural, like lightweight typography in photography, **cannot overpower the main subject**.
Except for these years and the age numbers on the cake, **no other text should appear**.
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## Scene and Background
The scene is a **pure, soft, minimalist indoor photography space**.
**Background color suggestions:** Light gray, warm gray, beige gray, cream gray
**Requirements:**
- Clean and simple background
- No complex decorations, no clutter, no extra people
- Just a table is enough
- Overall looks like a real photography studio or minimalist lifestyle photography space
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## Lighting and Tone
Use **soft, warm, cinematic lighting**.
**Requirements:**
- Even and natural light
- Slight three-dimensionality on the face
- Soft shadows
- Unified overall color tone
- Do not have different color temperatures on the left and right sides
- Do not make it look like a visual effect of two eras spliced together
The overall tone should be **warm, healing, real**, like a high-end but natural birthday commemorative photo.
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## Style Requirements
The overall style is: **High-quality realistic photography · Minimalist emotional photography · Birthday commemorative portrait**
Real, natural, restrained, suitable for posting on social media like WeChat Moments, Xiaohongshu, Instagram.
**The focus of the picture is:**
Two age stages of the same person, celebrating a birthday together in the same time and space, and having a gentle emotional exchange.
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## ⚠️ Important Restrictions
- **Do not** change my core appearance
- **Do not** make the childhood version a strange child
- **Do not** split screen, no dividing lines, no collage feel
- **Do not** have half black-and-white and half color
- **Do not** Westernize, do not make it look like an internet celebrity, do not use AI fake faces
- **Do not** use cartoon style, illustration style, plastic skin
- **Do not** use exaggerated makeup, do not over-smooth skin
- **Do not** have complex backgrounds, no extra people
- **Do not** have incorrect hands, no extra fingers
- **Do not** have gibberish text
- Except for **([Childhood year]), ([Current year])** and the **[Current age]** on the cake candles, **no other text should appear**
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## Final Output
Output a **4:5 vertical, highly realistic, warm, minimalist, cinematic** birthday emotional photography piece.
In the picture, **my childhood self and my current self** are sitting in the same scene, celebrating a birthday together, with a birthday cake and age candles in the middle. The two look like they are truly meeting in the same time and space, forming a real commemorative photo about **time, growth, and self-embrace**.