Muse: portraits & fashion photos

Sunra Muse turns a selfie into ultra-realistic fashion portraits that keep your face. How it works, the eight styles, batch presets, couple mode, and getting the best result.

Muse is Sunra's guided portrait pipeline. You upload a selfie, pick a style, and Muse generates ultra-realistic fashion photos that keep your face while transforming everything else — hair, makeup, outfit, and scene. It's powered by GPT Image 2, tuned for identity-preserving portraits.

Unlike the open-ended image generator, Muse is a set of curated looks: no prompt writing, just a style to choose. Upload once, then generate as many looks as you like.

Sunra Muse — upload a photo with the + Character button, pick one of the curated styles, and Generate.
Sunra Muse — upload a photo with the + Character button, pick one of the curated styles, and Generate.

How it works

  1. Open Muse and upload a clear selfie. Muse validates that the photo has a clear, unobstructed face before it runs.
  2. Pick a style — one of the eight curated looks, or a batch preset.
  3. Generate. A batch preset returns four coordinated looks in seconds; results land in your gallery to reuse or edit.
Note
Because each preset has hand-tuned prompts, you get consistent, high-quality output without writing a word — the trade-off versus the image generator is curation over control.

The eight styles

StyleLook
Y2K StreetVintage 35mm street photography
Y2K StudioMagazine editorial
Silver GelatinFine-art black & white
Surreal DopamineHyper-saturated, bold colors
Wong Kar-waiMoody 90s Hong Kong cinematic
Gala / Home / B&WThree couple modes

Each style has its own aesthetic DNA, so the same selfie reads completely differently from one to the next. Batch presets like Tokyo Drift, Night Leopard, Classic Y2K, and Glossy Studio bundle a coordinated set in one go.

Couple mode

The Gala, Home, and B&W modes are built for two people. Upload two photos (the pipeline uses gender detection to pair them correctly) and Muse stages both faces in a shared scene — a 1920s gala ballroom, a cozy domestic snapshot, or a fine-art B&W studio portrait. Outfits and interactions are varied automatically, so each run feels fresh.

Get the best result

The input selfie does most of the work:

  • Use a clear, front-facing photo with even lighting and your face fully visible.
  • Avoid sunglasses, heavy shadows, or extreme angles — Muse needs strong facial detail to preserve identity, and the upload check will flag a face it can't read.
  • For couple modes, make sure both faces are sharp and unobscured.
Tip
If the likeness drifts, swap to a cleaner source photo before changing the style. A sharp, well-lit selfie fixes identity problems that no style change will. Since you can generate unlimited looks from one upload, it's cheap to try several presets and keep the best.

Muse vs the image generator

Reach for Muse when you want a polished, on-trend portrait with zero prompt writing. Reach for the image generator when you want full control — your own prompt, model, composition, and lighting. For that path, start with Image generation basics and Prompting for images.

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