Liquid Chrome Effect

ROLE
Act as a senior professional photo retoucher, image editor, compositing artist, photographer and AI image-editing specialist. Perform a controlled, production-quality transformation of the uploaded image. Treat the source photograph as the ground truth: preserve the human subject, background, composition and existing photographic characteristics while adding only the requested liquid-chrome installation.

EDIT
Add a large sculptural liquid-chrome installation surrounding the main human subject. Construct it from smooth, curved, interconnected mirror-polished metallic forms that flow naturally around and through the available space in the scene without covering the subject's face or body. Preserve the original person, background, composition, camera position, lighting and photographic appearance.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE
Execute the requested "Liquid Chrome Effect" convincingly and photorealistically. The finished image should look like a real mirror-polished liquid-metal art installation was physically present around the subject when the photograph was taken. The chrome should be visually striking and clearly visible while remaining naturally integrated into the original environment.

EDITING PRIORITY
1. Preserve the original human subject and recognizable identity.
2. Preserve the original background and scene.
3. Add a clearly visible flowing liquid-chrome installation around the subject.
4. Integrate the chrome using physically believable reflections, lighting, perspective, shadows and occlusion.
5. Maintain ultra-photorealistic photographic quality without obvious generative-AI artifacts.

LIQUID CHROME DESIGN
- Create large, smooth, interconnected metallic forms with an organic liquid-like structure.
- Use flowing curves, rounded transitions, stretched metallic shapes and sculptural loops where compositionally appropriate.
- Make the installation substantial enough to create an obvious visual transformation.
- Arrange the chrome around the subject rather than directly over them.
- Allow some chrome forms to pass behind the subject to create convincing depth.
- Allow forms to occupy foreground, midground and background space where physically plausible.
- Maintain a coherent overall sculpture rather than generating random disconnected metallic blobs.
- Use varied curvature and thickness while keeping the design visually unified.
- Avoid excessive complexity that makes the scene cluttered.
- Do not transform existing objects, people or background elements into chrome.

MIRROR-POLISHED MATERIAL
- Render the installation as highly reflective mirror-polished metal.
- Use a smooth metallic surface with physically believable specular highlights.
- Reflect the surrounding environment naturally across curved surfaces.
- Reflections should contain plausible colors, brightness and shapes derived from the actual scene.
- Allow reflections to stretch and distort naturally according to surface curvature.
- Preserve realistic metallic highlight roll-off.
- Use subtle micro-imperfections only where necessary to prevent the surface from appearing artificially perfect.
- Maintain a premium polished-metal appearance rather than dull aluminum or rough steel.
- Do not make the chrome transparent.
- Do not make it resemble plastic, glass, foil, mercury droplets or painted silver surfaces.

SUBJECT PRESERVATION
- Keep every human subject photorealistic.
- Preserve exact recognizable facial identity.
- Preserve facial structure, skin tone, hairstyle, hair texture and expression.
- Preserve body proportions, anatomy, pose and hand position.
- Preserve clothing, footwear, accessories, jewelry, tattoos and other recognizable personal details.
- Do not turn any part of the person into chrome.
- Do not cover or obscure the subject's face.
- Do not unnecessarily cover the subject's body or clothing.
- Preserve realistic skin, hair and fabric texture.
- Do not beautify, reshape, relight or restyle the subject.

ORIGINAL SCENE PRESERVATION
- Keep the original background completely recognizable.
- Preserve existing architecture, furniture, vegetation, terrain, objects and environmental details.
- Preserve the original crop, framing, perspective and aspect ratio.
- Preserve the original camera position and lens characteristics.
- Preserve existing depth relationships.
- Do not replace the location.
- Do not redesign the environment.
- Do not introduce unrelated props, people or decorations.
- Only modify areas where necessary to physically integrate the chrome installation.

PLACEMENT & COMPOSITION
- Analyze the available negative space around the subject before placing the installation.
- Use the subject as the visual center of the chrome composition.
- Position the installation so that it frames and surrounds the person without hiding important details.
- Maintain clear separation around the face.
- Avoid placing large chrome forms directly across the eyes, mouth or other important facial features.
- Use foreground and background overlap selectively to create convincing three-dimensional depth.
- Keep the composition balanced relative to the existing photograph.
- Do not completely surround the subject with an artificial circular frame unless naturally appropriate.
- Make the installation feel sculptural and spatial rather than like a decorative border pasted onto the image.

PHYSICAL INTEGRATION
- Place the chrome installation convincingly within the three-dimensional space of the original photograph.
- Match the scene's perspective and camera geometry.
- Maintain believable scale relative to the subject and surrounding environment.
- Use correct occlusion when chrome forms pass behind or in front of environmental elements.
- Create believable contact with the ground or supporting surfaces where appropriate.
- Add subtle contact shadows and ambient occlusion where the installation approaches or touches real surfaces.
- Do not create floating forms unless their physical arrangement clearly supports them.
- Prevent impossible intersections with the subject or surrounding objects.

LIGHTING & REFLECTIONS
- Match the original scene's light direction, intensity, softness and color temperature.
- Illuminate the chrome using the same environmental lighting already present in the photograph.
- Reflect bright light sources accurately across curved metallic surfaces.
- Reflect darker areas of the environment where physically appropriate.
- Allow environmental colors to influence the reflections naturally.
- Match highlight intensity to the source image's exposure.
- Create believable reflected light from the chrome onto nearby surfaces only when physically appropriate.
- Preserve the original lighting on the human subject.
- Do not dramatically relight the person to accommodate the chrome.
- Avoid artificial studio highlights that contradict the original scene.

DEPTH & OCCLUSION
- Establish clear foreground, subject and background relationships.
- Allow selected chrome forms to pass naturally behind the human subject.
- Use limited foreground overlap only where it does not obscure important human details.
- Preserve fine hair boundaries when chrome passes behind the head.
- Maintain accurate occlusion around clothing, limbs and environmental objects.
- Keep contact edges clean but photographic.
- Do not create halos, outlines or obvious segmentation artifacts around the subject.

STRICT PRESERVATION RULES
- Do not change anything that does not need to change for the requested Liquid Chrome Effect.
- Preserve the original human identity exactly.
- Preserve the original pose, expression and anatomy.
- Preserve clothing and accessories.
- Preserve the original environment and recognizable scene structure.
- Preserve the original crop and framing.
- Preserve the original overall color grade.
- Preserve existing text and logos where present and unrelated to the requested effect.
- Do not remove existing objects merely to create space for the chrome.
- Do not add unrelated people, objects, text, logos or decorations.
- The liquid-chrome installation should be the only significant new element.

REALISM & MATERIAL INTEGRATION
- Match the source photograph's sharpness, depth of field, grain, noise and compression characteristics.
- Apply appropriate focus falloff to chrome forms according to their depth in the scene.
- Keep chrome surfaces sharp where they occupy the same focal plane as the subject.
- Allow foreground or background chrome to soften naturally according to the source camera characteristics.
- Maintain realistic edge behavior.
- Ensure reflections respond correctly to the curvature and orientation of each metallic surface.
- Prevent the chrome from appearing digitally pasted into the photograph.
- Maintain physically coherent scale, depth, lighting and material response throughout the installation.

ANATOMY & GEOMETRY SAFETY
- Keep human anatomy physically correct.
- Preserve the correct number and structure of fingers, hands, arms, legs, eyes, ears and teeth.
- Do not warp the person's face or body to accommodate the installation.
- Do not create duplicate limbs or facial features.
- Keep chrome geometry smooth and structurally coherent.
- Avoid melted-looking geometry that lacks intentional form.
- Avoid impossible intersections between separate chrome structures.
- Maintain believable perspective across all metallic forms.
- Do not allow chrome geometry to merge accidentally with the subject's skin, clothing or hair.

ARTIFACT PREVENTION
Avoid:
- altered facial identity
- chrome covering the face
- chrome replacing body parts
- changed pose or clothing
- distorted anatomy
- duplicated body parts
- random metallic blobs
- disconnected chrome fragments
- plastic-looking silver material
- glass-like transparency
- dull grey metal
- fake reflections
- reflections inconsistent with the environment
- excessive mirror distortion
- impossible geometry
- floating chrome without visual support
- incorrect perspective
- broken contact shadows
- hal