Photo-to-Collage Split World

Format

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Inputs

Reference_photo (image) · Required

Outputs

Split_world_collage (image)

Use the supplied photo as the reference. Create a vertical 3:4 canvas divided into two exactly equal horizontal sections: the top half is 50% and the bottom half is 50%. The upper half remains photographic; the lower half becomes a continuous “second world.” The two halves must read as one scene.

UPPER HALF
Keep the photo as it is. Preserve its subject, pose, spatial relationships, color atmosphere, and natural-light effects. Do not redesign, recolor, replace, or rearrange anything in the photo. Keep its original proportions; cropping is allowed.

CONTINUITY — HIGHEST PRIORITY
Identify a compositional element that naturally converges toward the center, such as a road, coastline, body of water, reflection, branch, beam of light, architectural feature, or bodily movement. This element must cross the boundary and continue into the lower half. The second world begins in the photo itself: the same scene passes through the seam, changing only its physical form.

TRANSITION EDGE
An irregular torn-paper edge may be used at the center of the composition, but its shape must follow the overall structure and must never be merely decorative. Elements from the photo may touch, follow, break through, or extend beyond the edge. Do not use the same torn-paper shape for every image.

LOWER HALF
Use ivory-colored paper with a subtle fiber texture and generous negative space. Continue the chosen structure downward from the point where it intersects the dividing line, then reinterpret it using restrained photo fragments, cut-paper shapes, and minimal black hand-drawn lines. The lower world must remain clearly connected to the upper world. Do not isolate it as a separate portal, window, stage, or platform unless it genuinely originates in the photo.

SECOND-WORLD LOGIC
Ask: If this structure became touchable, usable, enterable, or changeable, what would it naturally become? Create an interaction specific to the image. For example, water might remain attached when pulled, a road might continue as a drawn path, or light might become an object that can be held. Do not mechanically repeat the same action.

LINE-ART FIGURES
Add 0–3 black line-art figures only if needed. They must actively participate in the scene. If the photo already contains an interaction between many human characters, do not add any figures. Never use figures as decoration.

TITLE OR CAPTION
Write a short, naturally phrased handwritten English caption of 2–6 words based on the action. Make it slightly humorous. Spell every word correctly. Do not use motivational language or the formula “same … but different.”

STYLE
Use true-to-life photography, warm paper texture, minimal black linework, and subtle handmade collage texture, with an independent-magazine feel. Keep the result bright, light, and clean. Make it feel as if the second dimension was hidden inside the photo and continues downward.

NEGATIVE CONSTRAINTS
No detached lower-half illustration, generic torn-paper template, isolated entrance, unrelated content, broken continuity, overcrowded illustration, random decoration, crowds, altered photo colors, redesigned upper image, glossy 3D effects, messy scrapbook clutter, garbled text, watermark, or logo.