IDENTITY PRESERVATION INSTRUCTION:
Using the uploaded photo as reference, preserve the person's exact facial features, face shape, eye color, skin tone, and unique characteristics while transforming them into an 18th-century pirate character. The face must remain completely recognizable as the original person, maintaining all unique identifying marks, expressions, and proportions.

TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION:
Transform the person into a rugged 18th-century pirate captain from the Golden Age of Piracy (1650-1730). The subject should be wearing period-accurate pirate attire including a white linen shirt with billowing sleeves, a leather waistcoat or vest, a red or brown sash belt, and fitted breeches. Add a tricorn hat tilted at a confident angle, or alternatively a bandana tied around the head. Include a leather shoulder belt with a flintlock pistol holster and a cutlass sword sheathed at the hip. The pirate should have a weathered but charismatic appearance, with wind-swept hair and a commanding presence. The transformation should look completely natural on this specific person, as if they were actually a pirate captain of that era.

STYLE AND AESTHETIC PARAMETERS:
- Art style: Photorealistic cinematic photography with dramatic historical atmosphere
- Lighting conditions: Dramatic golden hour lighting with warm sunset tones, rim lighting from behind, soft fill light on face to maintain identity
- Color palette: Warm earth tones - deep browns, golds, burnt sienna, cream whites, with subtle ocean blues in background
- Mood: Adventurous, commanding, mysterious yet approachable
- Background treatment: Ships deck with wooden planks, rigging ropes in background, ocean horizon with golden sky, or tavern interior with candlelight. Keep background slightly blurred (bokeh effect) to maintain focus on the transformed face
- Texture details: Weathered leather, coarse linen fabric, wooden details, metal buckles and buttons should be highly detailed
- Facial expression: Confident, slightly weathered but not harsh, maintaining the person's natural expression
- Hair: Wind-blown, slightly unkempt but styled for the era, could include a few strands across the face
- Beard/facial hair: Optional - can add light stubble or a short trimmed beard if appropriate for the person's gender and age, but keep it natural and well-groomed

TECHNICAL QUALITY PARAMETERS:
- High resolution, 4K, detailed
- Sharp focus on face - the facial features must remain crystal clear and perfectly recognizable
- Professional quality, studio-grade portrait
- Aspect ratio: 4:3 or 3:4 vertical portrait orientation recommended
- Ultra-detailed fabric textures and material rendering
- Natural skin texture preserved with realistic pores and imperfections
- Cinematic depth of field with subject in sharp focus
- HDR quality with rich color depth

NEGATIVE PROMPT GUIDANCE:
Avoid: distorted features, unrealistic proportions, blurry face, loss of likeness, mismatched skin tones, artificial-looking clothing, cartoonish appearance, low resolution, pixelated details, deformed hands, extra fingers, fused clothing elements, inconsistent lighting, modern clothing elements, contemporary hairstyles, anachronistic accessories, plastic-looking materials, unnatural skin textures, exaggerated features, mismatched eye colors, facial asymmetry not present in original photo

USER CUSTOMIZATION:
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ADDITIONAL TIPS:
- For best results, use a well-lit original photo with clear facial features
- If the original photo has glasses, you can mention whether to keep or remove them in your customization
- You can specify preferred pirate accessories (e.g., "include a parrot on shoulder", "add an eye patch", "hold a treasure map")
- Mention if you want a specific type of pirate (e.g., "French pirate", "Spanish buccaneer", "Caribbean pirate")
- Specify if you want a more heroic or more rugged appearance

FINAL REMINDER:
The most important aspect is that after transformation, the person in the photo must still be clearly recognizable as YOU (or the original subject). The pirate elements should enhance the photo, not obscure the identity.