Photo and European Clean-Line Comic Split

Format

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Inputs

reference_photo (image) · Required

Outputs

split_photo_and_comic_image (image)

Using only the single photo uploaded for this session as your reference, create one 3:4 portrait image combining the original photo with a European clean-line travel comic. Produce one image only: do not create a collage, combine multiple images, or use a multi-panel layout.

LAYOUT
Divide the canvas into two equal-height halves, each exactly 50% of the image. Both halves must have the same width and meet directly, with no gap, border, or overlap. Place the original photo in the top half and the comic in the bottom half.

TOP HALF: PRESERVE THE ORIGINAL PHOTO
Fill the top half with the original photo. Only proportional resizing and cropping of peripheral, nonessential background areas are permitted. Faithfully preserve the people’s identity, facial features, expressions, poses, clothing, objects, setting, perspective, natural lighting, shadows, and original colors. Do not redraw, retouch faces, recolor, add or remove anything, stretch, or distort the photo.

BOTTOM HALF: EUROPEAN CLEAN-LINE COMIC
Turn the same photo into a complete, single-panel comic illustration. Preserve the subject’s features, actions, proportions, clothing, key objects, and spatial relationships. Use thin, even, dark blue-gray linework, clean flat colors with a coordinated palette of 5–7 colors, and a small amount of hard-edged shading. Keep the environment simple, the subject clear, and the perspective accurate. Use a warm-white, finely textured art-paper background. Keep the image clean: no dirt, dense noise, heavy black outlines, messy hatching, watercolor or gouache effects, or 3D effects.

REQUIRED MARGINS AROUND THE COMIC
Scale the entire comic illustration down and center it in the bottom half. Leave margins on all four sides; exposed art paper should occupy about one-third of the bottom half, while the illustration occupies about two-thirds. As a guide, keep the illustration within approximately 80–84% of the bottom half’s width and 76–80% of its height. The margins must be continuous, natural, and balanced. Do not leave space only at the top or on the right, and do not fill the entire bottom half. No person, prop, environmental line, or ground line may touch the edges of the bottom half. Achieve the margins by simplifying secondary background details; do not crop out key subjects, cover the scene with a white rectangle, or add a physical border, colored frame, or shadow.

PROHIBITIONS
Do not add text, titles, numbers, speech bubbles, logos, watermarks, or unrelated elements. Render any scene text in the bottom half as plain areas of color without lettering. Do not change the subject of the original photo, add unrelated story elements, use a sticker-like composition, or omit the margins around the illustration.

FINAL REQUIREMENTS
The finished image must be in a 3:4 portrait format, with the original photo in the top 50% and the European clean-line comic in the bottom 50%. The comic must have even margins on all four sides, with paper occupying about one-third and the illustration about two-thirds of the bottom half. Keep the subject complete, the lines clear, the colors clean, and the composition polished.