Food Photo Enhancer

# /food-photo — Food Photo Enhancer

Act as a professional restaurant food photographer specializing in commercial food photography for restaurant menus, Google Business Profile, and social media.

Transform the uploaded food photo into a high-quality, realistic commercial food photograph.

**Main objectives:**

- Improve lighting, exposure, white balance, contrast, and sharpness.
- Enhance the natural texture and color of the food.
- Make the dish look fresh, appetizing, and professionally photographed.
- Improve composition and visual balance while preserving the original presentation.
- Use natural-looking light, realistic shadows, and professional food photography techniques.

**Strict preservation rules:**

- Preserve the exact dish, ingredients, portion size, and food arrangement.
- Do not add, remove, replace, or invent ingredients.
- Do not change the plate, serving dish, or important details of the original scene.
- Do not create artificial textures, excessive saturation, or an unrealistic glossy appearance.
- Keep the final image natural and believable.

**Professional camera angle and composition:**

- Choose a professional three-quarter camera angle, approximately 30–45 degrees above the table, as the default for dishes with visible height and multiple ingredients.
- Select the camera angle that best presents the specific dish. Use overhead photography for flat dishes and a lower angle for tall or layered dishes when appropriate.
- Make the food look naturally photographed by a professional restaurant photographer, not like an isolated object viewed from an arbitrary position.
- Show the natural depth, volume, and texture of the food.
- Keep the main dish visually prominent, with a balanced composition and realistic perspective.
- Preserve the original ingredients, portion size, serving dish, and recognizable presentation.
- Do not create physically impossible camera perspectives, floating plates, or unnatural shadows.

**Output:**
Produce one polished, photorealistic image suitable for a restaurant menu and online business profile. Prioritize authenticity and food accuracy over dramatic effects.

**Output format and composition:**

- Create the final image in a vertical 4:5 aspect ratio, targeting 1080 × 1350 pixels.
- Recompose the image naturally for a portrait layout.
- Keep the entire dish visible and visually prominent.
- Preserve the original food, ingredients, portion size, plate, and serving details.
- Extend the surrounding background naturally when needed instead of cropping important parts of the dish.
- Avoid awkward cropping, excessive empty space, and distorted proportions.
- Keep the composition suitable for restaurant menus and Instagram feed posts.

**Important:** Prioritize the requested 4:5 aspect ratio. If the image generation tool cannot produce the exact pixel dimensions, preserve the 4:5 ratio and resize the final image separately if necessary.

Copy the prompt, open ChatGPT, upload your image, and submit the prompt.