Selfie → painterly soft-light portrait

Loose oil-paint brushwork and warm golden-hour rim light.

Painterly soft-light portrait generated from a selfie via MCP Media Engine img2img.

job: mjob_a6018f70-e0cb-4cd5-a1f2-15fd6063dad8

The prompt

Verbatim. Paste this into your agent — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Hermes — and it will submit the job via MCP Media Engine.

transform the subject into a soft painterly portrait, loose oil-paint brushwork, warm golden-hour rim light, shallow depth of field, dreamlike bokeh, no text, no logos, no watermark

Run it in 3 steps

01 · install + key

Wire MCP Media Engine into your agent

Get a key at app.mcpmediaengine.com and set the env var.

npx -y mcp-media-engine

# set MEDIAENGINE_API_KEY in your env
# get a key at https://app.mcpmediaengine.com

02 · attach photo

Drop your image into the chat

Selfie, pet, product, or room — attach to your agent or paste any image URL.

# either:
# • attach the image to your agent chat
# • paste any image URL in the prompt

input_image_url: "https://your-image-url.jpg"
denoising_strength: 0.65  # recommended for img2img

03 · paste prompt

Run the prompt

The agent submits the job and returns the asset URL.

prompt: "transform the subject into a soft painterly portrait, loose oil-paint brushwork, warm golden-hour rim light, shallow depth of field, dreamlike bokeh, no text, no logos, no watermark"
aspect_ratio: "4:5"
model: "nano-banana"

Model + credits

model

Default Image

credits per call

1 credit

aspect ratio

4:5

Live model catalog: /models. Credit costs surfaced at request time and echoed in the response.

Works in

This prompt is designed to run in any of these MCP-compatible agents. The wiring is the same — only the agent UI changes.

Claude

ChatGPT

Cursor

Hermes

Best for

IG reach posts — painterly portraits land strongly on lifestyle audiences.

Policy: use your own photos — don't upload photos of other people without their consent. No celebrities, no third-party faces. Example imagery on this page is generated via MED itself; job IDs are listed in the image caption.

Frequently asked

Where did the example image come from?▶

Generated via POST /api/jobs (image, nano-banana, denoising 0.7). Job ID mjob_a6018f70-e0cb-4cd5-a1f2-15fd6063dad8. Verified output at api.mcpmediaengine.com.