Negative prompts, not AI models, are key to realistic AI dating profile photos

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A developer building an AI dating photo tool found that preventing the telltale 'waxy skin' look was harder than preserving facial identity across generated images. The workflow uses two sequential fal.ai API calls — one for identity-preserving photo generation and a second upscaling pass focused solely on restoring realistic skin texture. Negative prompts targeting terms like 'plastic skin,' 'poreless skin,' and 'beauty filter' were found to do more practical work against the synthetic appearance problem than model selection alone. To avoid serverless timeout limits on Cloudflare Pages Functions, the system generates one photo style per request rather than batching all styles together. Payment is handled via HMAC-signed grants verified through the Web Crypto API, ensuring no AI generation call is made unless a valid, unexpired payment token is present.

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