30 ChatGPT Wanted Poster Prompts for Western Broadsides and Print
Upload a clear selfie, swap in [YOUR PHOTO], and paste any prompt into ChatGPT's image tool. You'll get wanted-poster portraits: western broadsides, official seals, reward type, and paper wear, while keeping your exact face throughout. Fiction and costume only.
In short: This page contains 30 copy-paste ready prompts, organized into 6 categories with a description and pro tip for each. The first 5 prompts are free instantly, no signup needed. Hand-curated and tested by the AI Academy team.
Western Broadsides
5 promptsClassic Dead-or-Alive Sheet
1/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT turns [YOUR PHOTO] into a classic western wanted poster with wood type and a reward line. Keep the saloon sheet if type sits under the portrait, not on the face.
Turn [YOUR PHOTO] into a classic western wanted poster. Cream paper, wood type, a centered portrait, and a reward line under the chin. Saloon-wall mood, tobacco paper, analog grain. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Type under the picture. Fiction only.
Sheriff-Office Cork
2/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT pins [YOUR PHOTO] as a wanted sheet on a sheriff-office cork wall with lantern light. Save the office still if tacks sit in the paper corners.
Restyle [YOUR PHOTO] as a wanted sheet pinned to a sheriff-office cork wall. Other papers around, a tack in the corner, and lantern light. Frontier-office mood, warm wood, paper wear. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 3:4 portrait.
Pro tip: Tacks in corners, not in the forehead.
Weathered Barn Door
3/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT places a wanted poster of [YOUR PHOTO] on a weathered barn door in noon sun. Use the wide 3:2 if peeling stays on the paper edge.
Transform [YOUR PHOTO] as a wanted poster on a weathered barn door. Peeling edges, a nail, and hard noon sun. Trail-town mood, dry wood, faded ink. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 3:2 landscape.
Pro tip: Peel the paper, not the face.
Two-Color Letterpress
4/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT reframes [YOUR PHOTO] as a two-color letterpress wanted sheet with red WANTED. Keep the print-shop still if the portrait stays engraved-style, not a photo dump.
Reframe [YOUR PHOTO] as a two-color letterpress wanted sheet. Red WANTED, black body type, a tight engraved-style portrait. Print-shop mood, ink squash, cream stock. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Name letterpress ink squash.
Dime-Novel Oval
5/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT converts [YOUR PHOTO] into a dime-novel oval wanted portrait on pulp paper. Keep the pulp still if the hat stays in hand.
Convert [YOUR PHOTO] into a dime-novel oval wanted portrait. An ornate oval frame, hat optional in hand, and cheap pulp paper. Pulp-fiction mood, cheap tan paper, grain. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Hat in hand. A brim over the eyes hides you.
Modern Print
5 promptsLaser-Printed Bulletin
6/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT turns [YOUR PHOTO] into a modern laser-printed wanted bulletin with a staple. Keep the hall still if the header stays above the photo.
Turn [YOUR PHOTO] into a modern laser-printed wanted bulletin. A clean sans header, a color photo, and a staple in the corner. Office-hall mood, cool paper, hard flash in the photo. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Modern print. Still fiction.
Airport-Style Screen
7/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT restyles [YOUR PHOTO] as a fictional airport wanted screen with a case number. Use the wide 16:9 if the UI stays invented, not a real agency.
Restyle [YOUR PHOTO] as a fictional airport wanted screen. A dark UI, a still portrait, and a case number, no real agency marks. Terminal-night mood, cool LEDs, sharp face. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 16:9 landscape.
Pro tip: Invented UI. No real seals.
Milk-Carton Side Panel
8/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT puts [YOUR PHOTO] on a fictional milk-carton side panel with grocery type. Keep the grocery joke if type stays beside the face, not on it.
Transform [YOUR PHOTO] onto a fictional milk-carton side panel. A small color still, grocery type, and a wax-carton texture. Grocery-joke mood, waxy paper, analog print. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Tasteful joke. Not a missing-person scare.
Zine Photocopy
9/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT reframes [YOUR PHOTO] as a zine photocopied wanted page with handwritten reward. Save the zine still if toner speckle stays off the pupils.
Reframe [YOUR PHOTO] as a zine photocopied wanted page. High contrast, toner speckle, handwritten reward. DIY-show mood, dirty photocopy, grain. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Handwritten reward, not a threat.
Sticker on a Lamp Post
10/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT converts [YOUR PHOTO] into a small wanted sticker on a night lamp post. Keep the city joke if the peel stays on the sticker edge.
Convert [YOUR PHOTO] into a small wanted sticker on a lamp post. Night street, a peel, and a tiny portrait. City-joke mood, wet metal, analog grain. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 3:4 portrait.
Pro tip: Tiny portrait, readable eyes.
Type & Seals
5 promptsWood Type Hierarchy
11/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT sets big wood-type WANTED above a small portrait of [YOUR PHOTO] with a reward line. Keep the broadside if the face stays sharp in the small window.
Turn [YOUR PHOTO] with big wood-type WANTED above a small portrait. Reward line, a date, cream stock. Broadside mood, ink on cotton paper, grain. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Big type above. Face in a clear window.
Fictional County Seal
12/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT adds a fictional county seal to a wanted sheet of [YOUR PHOTO]. Save the clerk still if the crest is invented, not a real seal.
Restyle [YOUR PHOTO] with a fictional county seal. Invented crest, no real flags, a formal serif, cream paper. Clerk-office mood, official-looking fiction, grain. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Invented crest only.
Reward in Coin
13/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT adds a period coin reward to a wanted portrait of [YOUR PHOTO]. Keep the saloon math if figures sit under the picture.
Transform [YOUR PHOTO] with a reward spelled in coin amounts. $500 in period figures, a western portrait, cream paper. Saloon-math mood, tobacco stock, analog ink. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Period figures under the portrait.
Aliases Line
14/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT adds an aliases line under a wanted portrait of [YOUR PHOTO]. Use the dossier joke if the alias sits below the chin.
Reframe [YOUR PHOTO] with an aliases line under the portrait. Also known as in small caps, cream paper, wood type header. Dossier-joke mood, clerk ink, grain. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: You can type your own alias in the follow-up.
Bilingual Broadside
15/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT converts [YOUR PHOTO] into a bilingual wanted broadside with one portrait. Keep the print still if both columns sit beside a clear face.
Convert [YOUR PHOTO] into a bilingual wanted broadside. English and Spanish wood type, one portrait, cream stock. Border-town print mood, two columns, analog ink. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 3:4 portrait.
Pro tip: One face. Two type columns.
Portrait Treatments
5 promptsEngraved Line Cut
16/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT turns [YOUR PHOTO] into an engraved line-cut wanted portrait. Keep the print still if hatch marks describe your real face.
Turn [YOUR PHOTO] into an engraved line-cut wanted portrait. Hatch marks, a white collar, cream paper. 19th-century print mood, ink drawing, fine grain. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Hatch your face, do not invent a new one.
Tintype Oval
17/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT restyles [YOUR PHOTO] as a tintype oval on a wanted sheet. Save the plate still if the oval shows your real face.
Restyle [YOUR PHOTO] as a tintype oval pasted on a wanted sheet. Dark silver plate look, a paper surround, period type. Civil-war-adjacent mood, metal sheen, analog wear. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Tintype sheen, not a horror filter.
Soft Studio Then Printed
18/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT drops a soft studio take of [YOUR PHOTO] onto cheap wanted paper. Keep the joke if the glam face sits in a rough frame.
Transform [YOUR PHOTO] as a soft studio photo dropped onto cheap paper. A mismatch of glam light and rough type. Print-shop-joke mood, cream stock, grain. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Mismatch is the joke.
Dust and Fold
19/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT reframes [YOUR PHOTO] on a folded dusty wanted sheet with a hard crease. Keep the saddlebag still if dirt stays in the fold.
Reframe [YOUR PHOTO] on a folded, dusty wanted sheet. A hard crease, dirt in the fold, portrait still clear. Saddlebag mood, worn paper, analog dirt. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Dirt in the fold, not smeared on the face.
Bullet-Hole Prop
20/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT adds a tasteful prop hole in the margin of a wanted sheet of [YOUR PHOTO]. Use the saloon prop if the hole stays off the face.
Convert [YOUR PHOTO] into a wanted sheet with a tasteful prop hole in the margin. No violence on the face, cream paper, wood type. Saloon-prop mood, paper damage, grain. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Margin only. Nothing on the face.
Settings
5 promptsTrain-Station Board
21/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT pins a wanted sheet of [YOUR PHOTO] on a train-station board beside a clock. Use the wide 3:2 if steam stays in the air, not on the face.
Turn [YOUR PHOTO] as a wanted sheet on a train-station board. Other notices, a clock, steam suggestion. Platform mood, wood and paper, analog grain. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 3:2 landscape.
Pro tip: Steam in the air.
Saloon Mirror
22/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT shows a wanted poster of [YOUR PHOTO] in a saloon mirror among bottles. Keep the bar still if the reflection is still your face.
Restyle [YOUR PHOTO] as a wanted poster reflected in a saloon mirror. Bottles, a warm lamp, the sheet in the glass. Bar-room mood, amber glass, analog grain. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Your face in the glass. Not a stranger.
General-Store Window
23/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT puts a wanted sheet of [YOUR PHOTO] in a general-store window with afternoon sun. Keep the street still if glass lettering stays off the eyes.
Transform [YOUR PHOTO] as a wanted sheet in a general-store window. Lettering on glass, afternoon sun, a tack. Main-street mood, dusty glass, paper fade. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Lettering beside the portrait.
Riverboat Cabin
24/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT pins a wanted sheet of [YOUR PHOTO] on a riverboat cabin door by a brass lamp. Save the boat still if velvet stays in era.
Reframe [YOUR PHOTO] as a wanted sheet in a riverboat cabin. Velvet, a brass lamp, the paper on a door. Packet-boat mood, warm brass, analog grain. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Paper on the door, not on the face.
Desert Notice Board
25/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT converts [YOUR PHOTO] into a sun-faded desert notice-board sheet under a wide sky. Keep the badlands still if ink is bleached but the face is readable.
Convert [YOUR PHOTO] into a sun-faded desert notice-board sheet. Hard sun, pale paper, a wide sky. Badlands mood, bleached ink, grain. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 16:9 landscape.
Pro tip: Bleached paper, readable eyes.
Fixes & Use-Cases
5 promptsSelfie to Wanted Poster
26/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT upgrades a modern selfie in [YOUR PHOTO] into a fictional wanted poster with wood type. Replace the current snap once your face is unchanged.
Turn my modern selfie [YOUR PHOTO] into a full fictional wanted poster. Add wood type, a reward line, and cream paper. Saloon-wall mood, tobacco stock. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Fiction and costume only. No real agencies.
Add Poster Grade Only
27/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT regrades [YOUR PHOTO] onto cream wanted paper without changing pose. Apply that wash if you like this clothes on a sheet.
Regrade [YOUR PHOTO] into an authentic wanted-poster look. Cream paper, ink contrast, and a type hint, without changing pose. Broadside mood, analog grain. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: A glossy magazine look breaks the broadside.
Type Frame Only
28/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT adds only WANTED type and a reward line around [YOUR PHOTO]. Check type sits outside the face, then save the frame.
Take [YOUR PHOTO] and add only WANTED type and a reward line. Keep my exact face and a similar crop. Print-joke mood, cream stock. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Type outside the face.
Wanted Duo
29/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT converts [YOUR PHOTO] of two people into a two-oval wanted sheet. Confirm both faces stay exact, then send the pair.
Convert [YOUR PHOTO] of two people into a two-portrait wanted sheet. Two ovals, one reward, cream paper. Pair-outlaw-joke mood, wood type, grain. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 3:2 landscape.
Pro tip: One reward line. Two faces. Fiction.
Lift Faded Ink
30/30✨ What it does
ChatGPT lifts faded ink on a too-pale wanted poster of [YOUR PHOTO] while keeping paper wear. Use the lifted take if the eyes were gone.
Take my too-faded wanted poster [YOUR PHOTO] and gently lift the ink. Keep the paper wear and recover the eyes. Readable broadside, still old. Keep my exact face, likeness and identity unchanged: do not alter features, age, or skin tone. Output as a 4:5 portrait.
Pro tip: Keep wear. Recover the face.
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