Direct Camera-Ready Portrait Prompts with Female Portrait Director

Image models reward directors, not keyword dumpers. Female Portrait Director locks your explicit requirements, picks one visual route, and directs subject, action, clothing, scene, camera, lighting, and finish as a single photographable moment — across 20 implemented styles.

Why This Skill Matters

This is not a generic prompt collection, as the README puts it. Instead of stacking conflicting style keywords, the skill routes each request through one on-demand style file, expands short parameters into a coherent photographed moment, and returns a copy-ready prompt with photography-director intent. It also handles e-commerce clothing model images — preserving clothing-display priority — and direct generation that preserves an authorized person or product reference. The repo has 1,499 stars on the SkillMap leaderboard.

Installation

Install with the open-source skills CLI:

npx skills add https://github.com/liyue-aigc/female-portrait-director/tree/main/skills/female-portrait-director -g

Update an installed copy with:

npx skills@latest update female-portrait-director -g -y

Prefer Git on Codex? Clone into your Codex skills directory (~/.codex/skills/female-portrait-director), restart Codex, and invoke $female-portrait-director.

Real Workflow: Generate a Clean Lifestyle Portrait

1. Install the skill and start a new agent session.
2. Paste the README's 60-second example:

Use $female-portrait-director to generate an image directly:
Style: clean lifestyle portrait
Scene: quiet cafe window seat in the afternoon
Outfit: ivory knitted cardigan + light inner top
Mood: gentle, natural, clearly adult
Aspect ratio: 3:4

3. Remove "generate an image directly" and the same input returns a copy-ready prompt instead of an image. Either way the output follows a fixed format: locked parameters, module analysis, final prompt, negative constraints.

A second workflow produces a styled prompt from a fuller parameter sheet. Feed the skill a Gufeng xianxia request — scene, outfit, mood, facial direction, camera framing, lighting, filter, aspect ratio — and it returns the same four-part output: the locked parameters, a module-by-module analysis, the final directed prompt, and negative constraints.

Tips

• Run $female-portrait-director with no parameters first: the initial invocation displays the V1.6 tutorial — all 20 styles, basic and advanced templates, style-plus-mood combination guidance, and a full parameter-to-prompt example.
• The 20-style menu spans clean lifestyle, urban fashion, Gufeng xianxia, retro Hong Kong street, French relaxed, and 15 more; the first-use guide (skill/help.md) documents routes and overlay combination rules.
• The 62-file distribution package is installer-verified for Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini CLI. Only Codex was runtime-executed in this release; the other rows are packaging and specification compatibility claims, per the README's own fine print.
• Direct image generation depends on your host: Codex supports it when image generation is available, while the other agents depend on the connected image tool.

When Not to Use This

The skill defaults text-only generation to fictional, clearly adult subjects, and its safety boundaries prohibit sexualized minors, explicit nudity, non-consensual images, deceptive identity content, harassment, and defamation — read docs/prompt_safety.md before the curve-focused and reference-image workflows. And if you need free-form art direction rather than one locked, directed route, a lighter prompt workflow will fight this skill's constraints.

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