MEGA-WEBSITE/docs/TEAM-PHOTO-PROMPTS.md

# Team photos: ChatGPT edit prompts

Source photos are in `exports/team-photos/` (leadership and office-and-site).
Willie's approved office test is in the leadership folder as
`_STYLE REFERENCE - Willie office.png`.

## Why the site version of Willie stopped looking like him

The office test kept his likeness because it only changed his clothes. The site
test changed everything at once (pose, arms crossed, jacket, lighting, background),
so ChatGPT had to redraw the whole person. The more you change in one go, the more
the face drifts. The rules below avoid that:

1. **One person per chat.** A new chat for each director, so faces never mix.
2. **Upload two images:** the director's own photo first, then the Willie style
   reference second.
3. **Change clothes and background only:** keep the same pose, head angle and
   crop as his original.
4. **If the face drifts, don't fix it in the same chat.** Start a new chat and
   run the prompt again. Asking it to "make him look more like himself" makes it
   worse.
5. **Check with someone who knows him.** If his family wouldn't recognise him at
   a glance, reject it.

## Leadership prompt (office)

Upload: 1) the director's photo, 2) `_STYLE REFERENCE - Willie office.png`.

```
Edit the first photo. This is a real person and his face must stay exactly the
same: same face shape, features, skin, hairline, hair, stubble or beard, eyes,
expression and age. Do not beautify, slim, smooth or redraw his face. Keep his
head angle and how he is framed.

Change only his clothes and the setting, to match the second image exactly:
- Plain dark navy short-sleeved work shirt with a collar, two chest pockets with
  button flaps and dark buttons. Not black, the same navy as the reference.
- The Mega Infrastructure logo embroidered on his left chest (his left, the
  viewer's right), above the pocket flap, small and neat, the same size and
  position as in the reference. Copy the logo exactly from the reference: the
  white cube icon, then "MEGA" in gold and "INFRASTRUCTURE" in white. No other
  logos, labels or text anywhere on the shirt.
- Seated behind a polished warm-brown wooden table, forearms resting on it,
  hands loosely clasped, like the reference.
- Background: vertical light-oak wooden slats, softly out of focus, the same as
  the reference.
- Soft, even studio light from the front-left, natural skin tones, sharp focus
  on the eyes.

Square 1:1 image, head and shoulders down to the table, the face in the upper
third, the same framing as the reference. Photorealistic, like a professional
corporate portrait. Keep his watch or any jewellery only if it is in his
original photo.
```

**Check before accepting:**
- **Face:** it is unmistakably him.
- **Logo:** sharp and spelled correctly, with "MEGA" in gold and "INFRASTRUCTURE"
  in white. Generators often scramble small text; if it does, run it again.
- **No stray branding:** no extra tag on the pocket. Willie's test has a small
  fake label on the right pocket flap, so ask for it to be removed or crop it out.
- **Shirt colour:** the navy matches Willie's across all five portraits.

Then send me the five finals (PNG or JPG). I'll size and swap them into the
site, and make sure all five sit at the same crop and brightness.

## Office staff prompt (navy golf shirt)

For Janno, Trevor, Petrolize, Reniera and Julius. Their photos are already in the
same slatted office, so only the top changes. Pose, background and framing stay
as they are.

Upload: 1) the person's photo from `exports/team-photos/office-and-site/`,
2) `_STYLE REFERENCE - Willie office.png` (for the navy colour and the logo).

```
Edit the first photo. This is a real person and their face must stay exactly the
same: same face shape, features, skin, hair, hairstyle, eyes, expression, makeup
and age. Do not beautify, slim, smooth or redraw the face. Keep the same pose,
arms, hands, head angle, background, table, lighting and framing as the first
photo. Keep any watch, rings, bracelets or necklace exactly as they are.

Change only the top they are wearing:
- A plain short-sleeved golf shirt (polo shirt) with a soft collar and a
  two-button placket, in the same dark navy as the shirt in the second image.
  Good fit, natural fabric creases.
- The Mega Infrastructure logo embroidered small on the left chest (their left,
  the viewer's right), the same size and style as in the second image: the white
  cube icon, then "MEGA" in gold and "INFRASTRUCTURE" in white. Copy the logo
  exactly. No other logos, labels or text.

Square 1:1, photorealistic, professional corporate portrait.
```

**Extra line for Petrolize and Reniera** (add it to the end of the prompt):

```
Use a women's fitted golf shirt with a slightly shorter, curved collar. Keep the
necklace and earrings she is wearing in the original.
```

Petrolize wears a blazer. Ask her whether she'd rather keep a navy blazer over
the golf shirt; if so, add "a plain dark navy blazer worn open over the golf
shirt, logo still visible on the shirt".

**Check before accepting:** the same as leadership. The face must be unmistakably
them, the logo spelled correctly, the navy must match the directors' shirts, and
there must be no extra labels.

## Next: site staff

- **Office staff:** see the golf shirt prompt above.
- **Site managers:** a site background, but take it in two steps so the face
  holds. First run the office prompt to get the shirt and logo right. Then, in a
  new chat with that result, change only the background to a blurred civil site
  (red soil, excavator far behind, late-afternoon light) and keep the same pose.
  No arms-crossed or new pose.