A smiling woman in a red coat and cream scarf stands inside a glass snow globe with a lit pine tree and falling snow, on a wooden base with a brass plaque reading Maya, in a room strung with fairy lights.
A woman with shoulder-length dark wavy hair in a plain white t-shirt takes a selfie by a window at home.
BeforeAfter
Before: the sample photo. After: made with Nano Banana Pro, with [NAME] set to Maya. The sample photo is AI-generated.

What each part of the prompt does

Real photo, tiny figure
"As if they were a tiny figure in a real photograph" keeps the person photographic rather than turning them into a toy or a cartoon, which is what image models tend to do with snow globes.
Glass cues
Reflections on the glass and a wooden base tell the model where the scene ends, so the snow stays inside the globe and does not spill into the room.
Name on the base
The plaque text sits in quotes, so it is printed as written. A short first name prints more reliably than a full name.
Light on both sides
Fairy lights in the room behind and the lit pine inside the globe put warm light on both sides of the glass, which keeps the figure from looking pasted in.

Variations to try

Same idea, one thing changed. These have no example image yet.

  • Snowy village inside

    Keep the face from my uploaded photo exactly as it is. Show the person standing inside a large glass snow globe that sits on a wooden mantelpiece, as if they were a tiny figure in a real photograph. Inside the globe: a tiny snowy village with lit cottage windows, a small lit pine tree and slowly falling snowflakes. They wear a red wool coat and a cream scarf and look up at the snow with a smile. A small brass plaque on the globe's wooden base reads "[NAME]". Warm fairy lights blur in the room behind, soft reflections on the glass, 4:5 frame.

  • Windowsill at night

    Keep the face from my uploaded photo exactly as it is. Show the person standing inside a large glass snow globe that sits on a bedroom windowsill at night, as if they were a tiny figure in a real photograph. Inside the globe: a snowy patch of ground, a small lit pine tree and slowly falling snowflakes. They wear a red wool coat and a cream scarf and look up at the snow with a smile. A small brass plaque on the globe's wooden base reads "[NAME]". A snowy street with lit windows blurs outside the window behind, soft reflections on the glass, 4:5 frame.

  • Couple in one globe

    Keep both faces from my uploaded photo exactly the same. Show the two people standing close together inside a large glass snow globe that sits on a wooden mantelpiece, as if they were tiny figures in a real photograph. Inside the globe: a snowy patch of ground, a small lit pine tree and slowly falling snowflakes. They wear winter coats and scarves and look up at the snow, laughing. A small brass plaque on the globe's wooden base reads "[NAME]". Warm fairy lights blur in the room behind, soft reflections on the glass, 4:5 frame.

If the result isn't right

  • If the person comes out like a plastic figurine, repeat "real person, real skin and fabric, only small in scale".
  • When the snow fills the whole room, add "snow only inside the glass globe".
  • If the plaque text comes out wrong, reply with the name spelled letter by letter and ask for the plaque only to change.
  • For a square post, ask for "1:1 frame, globe centred with space around it" instead of 4:5.