{
 "slug": "polaroid",
 "name": "Polaroid instant",
 "category": "texture",
 "group": "Film",
 "media": [
  "image"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Flash, faded colours and a white frame: a personal, vintage snapshot.",
 "use_when": "Party content, nostalgia, personal moments.",
 "phrase": "Polaroid instant photo, direct flash, soft focus, faded colours",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Grain, sensor noise and vignetting date an image: a shop scene with them read as a photo from 2008. Grain belongs to a film or snapshot register, not to realism as such.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on image prompting (Aug 2026)"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film frames tagged by colour, lighting, time of day and composition (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "kodak-portra-400",
  "vhs-tape"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "The first Director Chair spec, own words"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/texture/polaroid",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/texture/polaroid.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "Polaroid instant photo, direct flash, soft focus, faded colours. [your subject] in [your setting].",
  "nano-banana-2": "Polaroid instant photo, direct flash, soft focus, faded colours. [your subject] in [your setting].",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nDetails: Polaroid instant photo, direct flash, soft focus, faded colours\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "Polaroid instant photo, direct flash, soft focus, faded colours. [your subject] in [your setting]."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}