The best Halloween prompts start from your own photo: they keep your face, swap in the costume and build the spooky set around you, then a second prompt animates the portrait into a short video. Below are six Halloween photo prompts and six video prompts that bring each portrait to life.

 

Add your photo as the reference image for every photo prompt, and the finished portrait as the reference for its video prompt. Aspect ratio and length stay out of the prompts: choose them yourself in the settings before generating, using the values next to each prompt title.

How these Halloween costume prompts keep your face

Every portrait prompt follows the same pattern: keep the person’s exact face, skin tone, age, hairstyle and body, then build the costume piece by piece, then the set and its lighting.

The portraits are made with Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 5.0 Pro.

Halloween photo prompts: 6 AI Halloween costume portraits

Think of these as Halloween photo ideas you can shoot without a photographer, a costume shop or a single prop.

AI witch in a foggy cemetery

The classic witch photoshoot, head to toe, with the hat brim kept clear of the face.

Image prompt (9:16)

Create a realistic Halloween fantasy portrait using the uploaded person photo. Use the reference only for the costume, setting, lighting, and composition. Preserve the uploaded person’s exact facial identity, skin tone, age, hairstyle, and body proportions. Adapt the costume naturally to any person without copying the reference model’s face or hair. Place the person standing centrally, facing the camera, shown from head to toe. Dress them in a floor-length black witch robe with a rich purple center panel, crisscross corset-style lacing, and flowing purple sleeve accents. Add a tall pointed black witch hat with a purple band and small metal buckle. Keep their face clearly visible beneath the brim. Place a rustic wooden broom in one hand, its bristles resting on the ground. Surround them with a spooky cemetery: weathered gravestones, twisted bare trees framing both sides, glowing carved pumpkins in the foreground, low drifting ground fog, and a few flying bats. Create a dramatic orange sunset behind purple storm clouds. Add delicate spiderwebs in the image corners. Use realistic fabric, natural anatomy, detailed textures, warm pumpkin glow, and soft atmospheric shadows. Keep the person sharp and recognizable, with depth in the background. Match the reference’s vertical composition and dramatic Halloween mood. Keep the entire hat and figure inside the frame. Generate only the finished scene, without the screenshot interface, borders, or watermarks.

AI witch portrait in a purple and black robe and pointed hat holding a broom in a foggy cemetery with pumpkins

AI vampire on a haunted staircase

A vampire photoshoot in a haunted mansion, built around one long cape.

Image prompt (9:16)

Create a realistic Halloween fantasy portrait using the uploaded person photo. Preserve their exact facial identity, skin tone, age, hairstyle, and body proportions. Adapt the costume to the person’s build and age. Place the person slightly right of center, standing on the grand staircase of a haunted mansion, with their body turned slightly and their face looking toward the camera. Dress them in an elegant black vampire outfit with a deep burgundy waistcoat and a flowing cape lined in red velvet. Keep the face fully visible and recognizable. Surround them with ornate stair rails, antique portraits, dusty chandeliers, melted candles, and subtle cobwebs. An open doorway behind them reveals a moonlit sky and distant bats. Mix warm candlelight with cool blue moonlight, creating realistic shadows and rich depth. Use a vertical, head-to-toe composition with the entire figure and cape inside the frame. Create realistic fabric, natural anatomy, and cinematic photography. No extra people, text, borders, or watermarks.

AI vampire portrait in a black cape with red lining and a burgundy waistcoat on a haunted mansion staircase

Forest witch with a glowing spellbook

Image prompt (9:16)

Create a realistic Halloween fantasy portrait using the uploaded person photo. Preserve their exact facial identity, skin tone, age, hairstyle, and body proportions. Adapt the costume naturally to any person without changing their appearance. Place the person left of center in a mysterious forest clearing, shown from head to toe. Dress them in a dark emerald velvet robe with black details and a softly draped hood resting behind their head. Have them hold an open antique spellbook at waist level, looking toward the camera with a calm, mysterious expression. A subtle green glow rises from the book and lights their hands. Create towering twisted trees, moss-covered roots, scattered glowing pumpkins, and a narrow path disappearing into mist. A large full moon shines through the branches. Add a few small floating amber lights, keeping the surroundings spacious and atmospheric. Use realistic textures, natural anatomy, cool moonlight, and restrained magical illumination. Keep the face unobstructed and the entire figure inside the vertical frame. No extra people, readable text, borders, or watermarks.

Halloween portrait of a witch in a green velvet robe holding a glowing spellbook in a moonlit forest

Gothic masquerade in a ruined ballroom

The mask stays in the hands, never on the face, which keeps this Halloween portrait recognizable.

Image prompt (9:16)

Create a realistic Halloween fantasy portrait using the uploaded person photo. Preserve their exact facial identity, skin tone, age, hairstyle, and body proportions. Adapt an elegant gothic costume to their build and age. Place the person centrally in an abandoned ballroom, framed from the knees upward. Dress them in a tailored black velvet outfit with antique silver embroidery, a high collar, and a dramatic midnight-blue cape. Have them hold an ornate masquerade mask at waist level, leaving their face fully uncovered. Their shoulders turn slightly while their eyes look toward the camera. Create tall arched windows, cracked mirrors, faded wallpaper, candlelit wall sconces, and a dusty black-and-white marble floor. Show a full moon through the windows, with a few bats silhouetted outside. Add subtle floor mist and delicate cobwebs around the distant chandelier. Use cool silver moonlight and warm candlelight, realistic velvet, detailed embroidery, and natural anatomy. Keep the face sharp and recognizable. No extra people, text, borders, or watermarks.

Gothic masquerade Halloween portrait in a midnight-blue cape holding a silver mask in a moonlit ballroom

Witch brewing a potion

Image prompt (9:16)

Create a realistic Halloween fantasy portrait using the uploaded person photo. Preserve their exact facial identity, skin tone, age, hairstyle, and body proportions. Adapt the costume naturally to any person. Place the person slightly left of center inside a rustic witch’s cottage, framed from mid-thigh upward. Dress them in a black robe with deep plum sleeves and an aged leather belt. Add a pointed witch hat tilted back enough to keep their face clearly visible. Position a cast-iron cauldron in the lower-right foreground. Have the person stir it with one hand while turning their face toward the camera. Fill the cottage with rough wooden shelves, glass potion bottles, hanging dried herbs, candles, and a small glowing carved pumpkin. Through a round window, show a moonlit forest. A softly bubbling green potion releases thin curling steam that stays below the person’s face. Use warm amber candlelight, subtle green reflected light, realistic fabric, natural hands, and detailed cottage textures. Create a vertical cinematic composition with the entire hat inside the frame. No extra people, readable labels, borders, or watermarks.

Halloween portrait of a witch in a pointed hat stirring a green potion in a cauldron inside a cottage

Medieval princess with a glowing veil

Image prompt (9:16)

Create a dreamy vintage medieval fantasy portrait using the uploaded person’s photo. Use the reference only for costume, pose, setting, lighting, and photographic atmosphere. Preserve the uploaded person’s exact facial identity, age, skin tone, facial features, hairstyle, hair color, facial hair, and body proportions. Adapt the costume naturally to any person without copying the reference model’s appearance. Show the person from the head to below the hips, their body turned slightly sideways and their face directed toward the camera. Place their hands gently clasped near their chest, with relaxed shoulders and a calm, mysterious expression. Keep their face unobstructed. Dress them in an ivory satin medieval fantasy gown with voluminous gathered sleeves, delicate antique-gold edging, a softly fitted waist, and flowing fabric folds. Adapt the neckline and fit naturally to the person’s body. Add a tall silver-lilac conical medieval hennin decorated with subtle metallic embroidery, with a long translucent ivory veil falling from its tip behind the shoulders. Preserve their original hair beneath the headpiece. Frame the person with heavy olive-green velvet curtains, loosely gathered on the left and draped across the upper background. Use a deep midnight-blue backdrop. Place a warm light behind the person to illuminate the veil and create a soft golden outline around their shoulders and sleeves. Add gentle frontal fill so their facial identity remains clearly visible. Render as vintage fashion photography with soft-focus diffusion, luminous highlights, subtle film grain, muted colors, and natural satin texture. Create a romantic, quietly haunting storybook mood. Keep the entire headpiece inside the frame and the hands anatomically correct. No text, logos, extra people, or modern objects.

Halloween princess costume portrait in an ivory medieval gown and tall veiled hennin against green velvet curtains

Halloween video prompts: bring each portrait to life

Each video prompt takes the finished portrait as its reference. The person blinks and moves a little while fog, candles and bats do most of the work. Every clip in the template runs on Seedance 2.5.

The witch in the cemetery

Video prompt (5s, 9:16)

Animate the uploaded Halloween witch portrait while preserving the person’s exact identity, face, hairstyle, body proportions, black-and-purple costume, hat, broom, and original composition. Begin with the existing image. Low fog slowly rolls between the gravestones and around the person’s feet. The carved pumpkins flicker with warm candlelight, softly illuminating the nearby mist. Bats fly naturally through the distant sky, and purple storm clouds drift across the orange sunset. The person gently shifts their weight, blinks naturally, and slightly lifts their chin toward the camera while keeping the broom grounded. A light breeze softly moves their hair, flowing sleeves, and dress hem. Keep facial features stable and movements restrained. Add a slow, subtle camera push toward the person. Preserve the original cemetery, colors, lighting, and framing. No outfit changes, face morphing, new objects, exaggerated gestures, or sudden cuts.

The vampire on the stairs

Video prompt (5s, 9:16)

Animate the uploaded vampire portrait while preserving the person’s exact facial identity, hairstyle, body proportions, outfit, and the original gothic staircase. The person slowly descends two steps toward the camera with a confident, mysterious expression. Their hand gently holds the cape open, revealing its deep red lining. The cape flows behind them with each step, with realistic fabric weight and soft folds. Add natural blinking and a slight chin lift while keeping their face clearly recognizable. Candle flames flicker softly, casting moving warm shadows across the wooden walls and portraits. Cool moonlight streams through the open doorway as distant bats fly across the moon. Thin mist drifts along the upper stairs, leaving the person’s feet visible. The camera smoothly tracks backward to keep the person fully framed, including their head and shoes. Preserve the original colors, architecture, clothing, and atmosphere. No face distortion, outfit changes, extra people, sudden cuts, or exaggerated movements.

The spellbook witch

Video prompt (5s, 9:16)

Animate the uploaded enchanted forest portrait while preserving the person’s exact facial identity, hairstyle, skin tone, body proportions, emerald velvet gown, open book, and original composition. The person lowers their gaze to the book. One page gently lifts, turns, and settles while their hands hold the book steadily. A soft green glow rises from the pages, subtly illuminating their face and fingers. They slowly look toward the camera with a calm, mysterious expression, adding natural blinking and gentle breathing. Warm fireflies drift at different depths between the mossy trees. Low mist curls around the roots and dress hem. Jack-o’-lanterns flicker softly, while a light breeze gently moves the loose sleeves and nearby leaves. Use a slow, delicate camera push-in, keeping the person and book clearly framed. Preserve the moonlit forest, original colors, and lighting. Animate only the artwork, excluding screenshot controls. No face morphing, distorted hands, changing text, outfit changes, or sudden cuts.

The masquerade reveal

Video prompt (5s, 9:16)

Animate the uploaded gothic portrait while preserving the person’s exact facial identity, hairstyle, skin tone, body proportions, embroidered black outfit, dark blue velvet cape, and silver mask. The person gently lifts the mask from waist level toward their chest, keeping both hands naturally wrapped around it. They briefly glance down at the mask, then slowly return their gaze to the camera with a mysterious expression. Add natural blinking, subtle breathing, and a slight shoulder movement. The velvet cape softly shifts and settles with realistic weight. Low mist drifts across the checkerboard floor. Candle flames flicker, casting delicate moving highlights on the silver mask and embroidery. Distant bats pass across the moon while cool moonlight continues to illuminate the gothic hall. Use a gentle camera push-in, keeping the face and mask fully visible. Maintain the original setting, colors, and lighting. Animate only the portrait artwork; exclude screenshot controls and interface text. No face morphing, distorted fingers, outfit changes, new objects, or sudden cuts.

The potion witch

Video prompt (5s, 9:16)

Animate the uploaded witch portrait while preserving the person’s exact facial identity, hairstyle, skin tone, body proportions, hat, outfit, and original rustic potion room. The person slowly stirs the glowing green potion in smooth circles, keeping their hand naturally gripping the wooden spoon. The liquid swirls with the spoon, forming small bubbles that rise and pop. Wisps of steam curl upward around the cauldron without obscuring the face. Soft green light from the potion gently illuminates their fingers and lower face. They briefly glance into the cauldron, then look toward the camera with a subtle, knowing smile. Add natural blinking, gentle breathing, and slight sleeve movement that follows the stirring action. Candle flames flicker softly, and the pumpkin’s warm glow subtly fluctuates. Beyond the round window, faint clouds drift across the moonlit blue sky. Keep the camera nearly still with a delicate push-in, retaining the face, stirring hand, spoon, and cauldron in frame. Preserve all room details and the original lighting balance. Animate only the artwork, excluding screenshot interface elements. No face morphing, distorted hands, floating spoon, outfit changes, or sudden cuts.

The princess portrait

Video prompt (5s, 9:16)

Animate the uploaded Renaissance portrait while preserving the person’s exact facial identity, hairstyle, skin tone, body proportions, ivory gown, jewelry, and original composition. Begin in the existing pose. The person slowly turns their head toward the camera, making gentle eye contact with a natural blink and a calm expression. Their hand softly adjusts near the neckline, then rests in its original position. Add subtle breathing and delicate movement in the gown’s folds. A gentle breeze makes the sheer white fabric behind them billow softly, while the heavy olive curtains sway slightly at their inner edges. Soft window light filters through the moving fabric, creating delicate changes in highlights across the ivory sleeves and face. Use a slow, subtle camera push-in, keeping the face and hand clearly visible. Maintain the original dark teal background, warm colors, and painterly realism. Keep the movement elegant and restrained, with stable facial features, hands, and clothing throughout.

How to run these Halloween prompts in Picsart Flow

1. Upload your photo

Use one clear, well-lit photo with the whole face visible.

2. Run the portraits first

Generate the image nodes and check that every face still looks like you before anything moves.

3. Animate the keepers

Run the video nodes for the portraits you like, and re-run any single clip that misses.

4. Swap a look

Edit the text node behind any portrait to change the costume or the set, then run just that branch again.


Get answers to common questions

No. An everyday photo works, since the prompt dresses you and builds the whole scene. A clear, front-facing shot with good light gives the model the most to keep.

Make your Halloween portrait tonight

Pick the look you would actually wear, upload one photo and run it. To run all twelve prompts in one batch, use the Realistic Halloween Fantasy Portraits template in Picsart Flow: one upload feeds every portrait, and every portrait feeds its own video.