# COUPL — Four-Slot Couple Portrait Wildcard System
### Two people. One moment. Millions of stories.
COUPL is a combinatorial wildcard set for photorealistic couple portraits: two fully-described people, a candid moment between them, and a cinematic environment — assembled from a single master prompt. Every slot is handcrafted in the grammar of modern editorial portrait photography: realistic skin texture, natural color grade, shallow depth of field, honest faces of any age, ethnicity and body type.
One line of prompt — and every seed gives you a new cast, a new story, a new light.
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## 🧩 What's inside the group
| File | Slot | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| COUPL/woman.txt | __COUPL/woman__ | A complete woman: age (18–80+), ethnicity, face shape, hair color & style, skin tone, freckles, makeup (or none), body build, clothing |
| COUPL/man.txt | __COUPL/man__ | The same depth for the man: age, ethnicity, face, hair, beard / stubble / clean-shaven, glasses, build, clothing |
| COUPL/interaction.txt | __COUPL/interaction__ | Framing + the moment: close-up / mid-body / three-quarter / profile candid — sharing an umbrella, a slow dance, a whispered secret, foreheads together, shared laughter — plus both subjects' gaze & expression |
| COUPL/background.txt | __COUPL/background__ | Light + environment: studio softbox on canvas backdrop, golden-hour park, night-city bokeh, café interior, soft window light, overcast open shade and more |
All entries are adult (18+), clothed, SFW — the system is built for tender, humorous and cinematic storytelling, not explicit content.
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## ✨ Master prompt (copy–paste)
```
professional portrait photograph, realistic skin texture, natural color grade, shallow depth of field, __COUPL/woman__ and __COUPL/man__, __COUPL/interaction__, __COUPL/background__
```
Four slots combine into millions of unique couples and moments. Reroll the seed for a new cast; lock the seed and swap a single slot for directed edits.
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## 🎯 Why it works
- Disentangled slots — identity, story and environment never bleed into each other: change the background without touching the people, change the moment without changing the faces.
- Honest diversity — ages 18 to 80+, twelve ethnicity groups, every body build, real skin (freckles, pores, gray hair, wrinkles celebrated, not airbrushed).
- Photographic grammar — every entry carries camera language: framing, light direction, bokeh character, gaze and expression — so the model receives a complete photo direction, not a wish list.
- Base-agnostic — authored alongside photorealistic checkpoint/LoRA lineages (1000-Faces / REALKROMA6 family) but works with any realistic model.
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## 🛠 Installation & use
1. Unpack the COUPL folder into your wildcards directory:
- ComfyUI (Impact Pack / WAS Wildcards): ComfyUI/wildcards/COUPL/
- A1111 / Forge (Dynamic Prompts): extensions/sd-webui-dynamic-prompts/wildcards/COUPL/
2. Paste the master prompt above.
3. Generate. In Dynamic Prompts the same slots read as <COUPL/woman>, <COUPL/man>, <COUPL/interaction>, <COUPL/background>.
## 💡 Tips
- Aspect ratio: 4:5 or 3:4 for close-up and mid-body candids; 3:2 for three-quarter and environmental moments.
- Sampling: CFG 3–5 with 20–30 steps on full realistic checkpoints; CFG 1–2 on turbo/distilled models.
- Suggested negative: cartoon, anime, 3d render, plastic skin, airbrushed, deformed hands, extra limbs, bad anatomy, text, watermark
- Same couple, new scene: lock the seed and reroll only __COUPL/background__ or __COUPL/interaction__ — the cast stays, the story changes.
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## 📸 The kind of frames it produces
> …a 61-year-old man of Mediterranean descent and a 22-year-old woman of East Asian descent, mid-body candid portrait, sharing a single umbrella while laughing together, both looking into the lens, golden-hour backlight, blurred urban street bokeh…
> …a 45-year-old woman of Sub-Saharan African descent and a 38-year-old man of Scandinavian descent, close-up portrait, foreheads together, both eyes gently closed, serene expressions, warm practical lamp light, textured canvas photo backdrop…
Tender, funny, quiet, cinematic — the couple is always the subject; the light is always the co-author.
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## ❤️ Notes
Plain-text .txt wildcards, one entry per line — editable, extendable, remix-friendly. Add your own people, moments or locations and the system grows with you.