AI portrait prompts by job: copy one, then change only your details.

Answer first: choose your role below and use its prompt as written. Replace only the bracketed details with facts from your reference photo. Keep the final instruction: no invented credentials, logos, or text.

Copy-ready prompts

Lawyer

Prompt: Create a realistic professional portrait of the person in the reference photo, preserving their face, age cues, skin tone, hair texture, and natural expression. They are a [practice area] lawyer in a quiet law-office meeting room, wearing [wardrobe], seated or standing with relaxed, direct posture. Use soft window light, a neutral background, natural skin texture, and a waist-up crop. The result should feel calm, prepared, and approachable. Do not add court seals, firm logos, credentials, text, or people not in the reference.

Real-estate agent

Prompt: Create a realistic portrait of the person in the reference photo, preserving identity and natural features. They are a real-estate agent in a bright, lived-in home entryway or modern neighborhood exterior, wearing [wardrobe]. Use an open posture, an easy expression, daylight, and a chest-up composition with enough background to suggest place without distracting from the person. Keep realistic skin texture and ordinary proportions. Do not invent property signage, sales claims, logos, text, keys, or additional people.

Nurse

Prompt: Create a realistic professional portrait of the person in the reference photo, preserving their recognizable face, hair, age cues, and skin tone. They are a nurse in a clean, quiet clinical workspace, wearing [appropriate work clothing]. Use gentle daylight, a reassuring expression, natural posture, and a simple chest-up crop. Keep the room uncluttered and the image documentary rather than glossy. Do not add a hospital name, badge text, medical claim, patient, equipment labels, or altered facial features.

Teacher

Prompt: Create a natural professional portrait of the person in the reference photo, preserving identity, facial features, and realistic texture. They are a [subject or grade] teacher in a calm classroom or library corner, wearing [wardrobe]. Show an attentive, welcoming expression, soft window light, and a waist-up composition. Include only subtle learning materials with no readable text. Do not create school branding, student faces, awards, credentials, or words on a board.

Software developer

Prompt: Create a realistic portrait of the person in the reference photo, preserving the person’s face, age cues, hairstyle, and natural skin tone. They are a software developer at a tidy desk with a softly blurred monitor and daylight from the side, wearing [wardrobe]. Use a thoughtful but relaxed expression, natural posture, and a head-and-shoulders crop. Make the workspace plausible and understated. Do not show readable code, company logos, product screens, text, or invented devices.

Accountant

Prompt: Create a credible professional portrait of the person in the reference photo, preserving identity and natural facial detail. They are an accountant in a quiet office with a clean desk, wearing [wardrobe]. Use balanced daylight, a composed expression, neutral colors, and a waist-up crop. Any papers or screen in the background must be indistinct and unreadable. Do not add certifications, firm logos, financial numbers, text, or altered body proportions.

Therapist or counselor

Prompt: Create a warm, realistic portrait of the person in the reference photo, preserving their face, skin tone, age cues, and natural expression. They are a [therapist or counselor] in a quiet, comfortable consultation room, wearing [wardrobe]. Use soft natural light, a calm seated posture, and a chest-up composition with a gentle, uncluttered background. The image should feel respectful and grounded, not staged. Do not add medical claims, office logos, certificates, text, or clients.

Consultant

Prompt: Create a polished but realistic portrait of the person in the reference photo, preserving identity, natural texture, and familiar features. They are a [field] consultant in a small meeting space with daylight, wearing [wardrobe]. Use an engaged expression, relaxed shoulders, and a waist-up crop. Keep the setting simple enough for a profile image and avoid theatrical poses. Do not invent a company mark, presentation text, client material, credentials, or extra people.

Designer

Prompt: Create a natural portrait of the person in the reference photo, preserving the person’s recognizable face, age cues, skin tone, and hair. They are a [design field] designer in a light studio with a few out-of-focus materials or sketches, wearing [wardrobe]. Use side daylight, an alert but unforced expression, and a head-and-shoulders crop. The image should feel personal and work-ready, not fashion-editorial. Do not show readable project text, brand marks, awards, or a different person’s work.

Recruiter

Prompt: Create a clear, approachable professional portrait of the person in the reference photo, preserving identity and natural facial detail. They are a recruiter in a welcoming office or quiet coworking space, wearing [wardrobe]. Use soft daylight, direct eye contact, a comfortable upright posture, and a chest-up crop. Keep the background neutral and real. Do not add company branding, job listings, text, claims, badges, or extra people.

Make the prompt believable in four edits

1. Replace the brackets with evidence. Name the real specialty, normal work clothing, and a setting you could plausibly be photographed in.
2. Keep identity separate from role. The reference photo supplies the person; the job details shape the context. A role should not change age, face shape, or body.
3. Choose one role signal. An office, classroom, clinic, or studio is enough. Adding every stereotype makes the portrait less credible.
4. Inspect before you publish. Check the face first, then the setting, then whether any made-up text or credential slipped in.

The Faymas role-proof check

Before using an AI portrait professionally, ask three questions: Does it still look like me? Could this setting be true without a caption? Is every visible claim something I can support? If any answer is no, simplify the next prompt instead of adding more polish.

Use the identity-and-change audit before making a final selection, or return to the Faymas prompt guide.