Photo as an Old Newspaper Page

Format

Markdown Parameterized

Inputs

reference_photo (image) · Required paper_line (text) · Optional · Default: THE HARBOUR GAZETTE headline_line (text) · Optional · Default: NOBODY CLAIMS THE PRIZE date_line (text) · Optional · Default: NOVEMBER 30 1962 caption_line (text) · Optional · Default: The winner arrives an hour before anyone else

Outputs

newspaper_page_image (image)

Replace the ${…} placeholders with your values before using this prompt. See parameters and defaults below.

Create a single page from an old tabloid newspaper using the uploaded photo. Do not place the photo on top of a newspaper page; recreate it as a halftone image printed into the newsprint.

Use these four text fields exactly as supplied:
- PAPER LINE: ${paper-line:THE HARBOUR GAZETTE}
- HEADLINE LINE: ${headline-line:NOBODY CLAIMS THE PRIZE}
- DATE LINE: ${date-line:NOVEMBER 30 1962}
- CAPTION LINE: ${caption-line:The winner arrives an hour before anyone else}

All four fields must be in English. Print the supplied text exactly. Do not correct, shorten, translate, rewrite, or invent any of it.

## Page and margins
- The image is portrait 3:4, and the entire image is one newspaper page, even if the uploaded photo is landscape.
- Leave an even, unprinted newsprint margin on all four sides, 3–5% of the image width. Print nothing in the margins.
- Show only one page. Do not show an open spread, a folded or stacked newspaper, hands holding it, a desk or table, a tabletop mockup, or another sheet behind it.

## Paper
- Use aged newsprint: warm gray-yellow, unevenly toned, with visible paper fibers.
- Add one soft crease running across the page and very slight wear at the four corners.
- Ink should soak into the fibers rather than sit on top of them, making the edges of letters and dots slightly soft.

## Main photo
- Make the uploaded photo the page’s one large photo. It should occupy 45–60% of the page height and span most of the page width.
- Recreate it with coarse newspaper halftone. The round dots should form a regular screen and be individually visible at normal viewing size. Smooth, fine photographic tonal gradation is a failure.
- Rebuild the photo in ink; do not merely overlay a dot screen on the uploaded image. Dark dots sit on bare paper, and a warm red color shows through in the areas that were brightest in the original. Grass, sky, clothing, and other colors are represented through dot density, not their original colors. No part of the original photo should show through between the dots.
- Slightly misregister the color plates: shift the red plate a small, consistent amount in one direction relative to the dark ink. The offset should be visible along every edge in the photo.
- Preserve the scene: who and what is present, the number of people or animals, where they are standing, what they are wearing or holding, the direction of the light, and the composition. Do not add or remove any person, animal, or worn or held object. Do not change anyone’s face.
- Do not remove anything from the scene or add anything that was not there. The result must be immediately recognizable as the same scene.

## Page layout
Arrange the page from top to bottom:
1. Put the PAPER LINE newspaper name across the full print width, in bold condensed serif lettering, with one thin rule beneath it. Print only the supplied words: do not print the field name, a colon, or quotation marks.
2. On the line below the rule, place the DATE LINE date alone at the left in small type. Leave the rest of the line empty. Do not add a price, edition mark, city name, page number, or any other text on or near this line.
3. Set the HEADLINE LINE headline large, in bold condensed serif lettering, on one or two lines. Print it exactly as supplied, even if the image appears to show a recognizable real place, person, or event. Do not substitute recognized information for the supplied headline. If the printed headline differs from the supplied text, the page has failed.
4. Place the large photo described above.
5. Directly beneath the large photo, set the CAPTION LINE caption in small italic type on one or two lines. Print it exactly, including its spelling. Do not correct, shorten, translate, polish, or invent the caption. If it differs from the supplied text, the page has failed.
6. Add one thin horizontal rule.
7. Below the rule, place the second photo described below at the lower left, with bare paper beside it.

## Second photo
- The page contains two photos and no article text. Add one much smaller second photo below the rule. It is a closer view of one detail already present in the uploaded photo. Choose a detail that is actually there, such as a face, two hands, an animal’s head, one object, or part of the background.
- This is another print of the same photo, not a different scene or moment. Do not invent a new subject, person, or animal for it. Do not flip or rotate the uploaded photo.
- Print it with the same coarse halftone screen and red-plate offset as the large photo, but make its dots slightly coarser because it is reproduced at a smaller size.
- Place it at the lower left. It should be about one-third of the print width; it may be shorter than it is wide. Print nothing beside or below it.
- Leave all the remaining lower part of the page as bare newsprint. Keep it empty even if it looks blank; bare paper is the correct result.

## No article columns
- Do not draw body text, narrow columns, vertical rules between columns, paragraphs, or rows of marks standing in for type.
- Do not draw regular horizontal strokes, dashes, squiggles, dotted lines, or repeating patterns as substitutes for type.
- From a distance, no area of the page should look like a block of typeset text.

## Only four readable text elements
Only these four elements may be printed large enough to read, and each must come directly from its supplied field: the PAPER LINE newspaper name, the DATE LINE date alone on its own line, the HEADLINE LINE headline, and the CAPTION LINE caption beneath the large photo. Do not write any new words anywhere on the page.

### Lettering rules
- All text in the image must be English, using Latin letters, numerals, and ordinary punctuation only. Do not print Korean or any other non-Latin characters.
- Preserve numerals as numerals. Do not replace 0 with O, 1 with I or l, or vice versa. The year on the date line must use numerals.
- Do not print field names or labels anywhere, including PAPER, HEADLINE, DATE, TITLE, CAPTION, LINE, FIELD, or LABEL. Do not print colons, square brackets, or parentheses.
- Do not print the same wording twice. In particular, do not repeat the headline as a caption or subheading.
- Do not invent a photo credit, real newspaper name, logo, barcode, QR code, or web address.
- The headline must remain clearly readable when the image is reduced to chat-preview size.
- Do not print any other text anywhere on the page, at any size. Even one line of tiny unreadable type is a failure, including in a corner or beneath the date line. If you are about to add type the reader cannot read, leave that area blank instead.

## Mood
The page should feel like a clipping from a local evening paper several decades ago, torn out and put away in a drawer: quiet, restrained, and matter-of-fact. Do not make it look like a modern magazine, poster, graphic-design template, vintage filter applied to a photo, or clean digital layout.

## Avoid
Article text; narrow columns; column rules; rows of strokes standing in for type; a photo placed on top of the page; a border around the photo; smooth photographic gradation; glossy paper; a second page or open spread; hands; a desk; a coffee cup; a tabletop mockup; decorative torn edges; stamps; tape; stickers; postcards; maps; comic style; cute characters; vector icons; drop shadows; changes to the number of people or animals; adding or removing jewelry; different faces; any body text; oversized meaningless lettering; logos; watermarks.