Photographic Editorial Poster with Handmade Paper Illustration

Format

Text Parameterized

Inputs

uploaded_photo (image) · Required editorial_text (text) · Required

Outputs

editorial_poster (image)

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

Create one independent high-end editorial poster for each uploaded photo. Process every photo separately; do not combine multiple photos into a collage.

## Format and layout
- Use a strict 3:4 vertical composition.
- Divide the canvas horizontally into two exactly equal sections, each occupying 50% of the canvas.
- Make the sections feel visually connected as one refined art-publication cover.

## Top half: original photograph
Preserve the photograph as faithfully as possible. Keep the main composition, subjects, identities, facial features, body proportions, poses, expressions, clothing, objects, and spatial relationships unchanged. Preserve realistic photographic texture, natural lighting, shadows, atmosphere, and the original color mood. Apply only subtle, sophisticated editorial color grading, as for a premium magazine photograph, contemporary art book, or high-end independent publication. Keep the image photorealistic and authentic, not over-retouched or artificially stylized.

If needed to fit the 3:4 composition naturally, extend the sky, ground, walls, or surrounding environmental background. Make any extension seamless and photographic. Never stretch, distort, reshape, replace, or alter the main subject.

## Bottom half: minimal hand-drawn paper illustration
Extract the most recognizable visual elements from the photo and reinterpret them as a minimalist hand-drawn paper-cover illustration. Preserve the recognizable subject, essential silhouette and proportions, key pose or gesture, important objects, and core narrative relationship between people and objects. Simplify heavily, retaining only the visual information needed for immediate recognition.

Use delicate, slightly imperfect hand-drawn lines; a small number of bold, clearly defined acrylic-style flat color shapes; rough paper texture; visible handmade brush marks; organic, slightly irregular edges; and subtle imperfections that make the result feel genuinely handmade. Keep the main illustrated subject small, centered, and carefully composed, occupying approximately 10–20% of the bottom half. Leave abundant negative space around it.

Use a background resembling rough white, warm off-white, or pale natural paper, or minimal editorial book-cover stock. Suggest the surrounding environment with only a few lines or small color shapes.

## Color palette
Extract dominant colors directly from the photo and compress them into no more than four main colors. Keep the palette restrained, sophisticated, and harmonious, with bold but controlled flat color blocks and no excessive color variation. Preserve subtle paper grain and handmade brush texture. The illustration should feel like a simplified color interpretation of the photograph.

## Typography
Include only a small amount of simple typography when appropriate, such as a short title, keyword, object name, location, year, number, or short phrase. Keep it minimal, understated, and editorial. Let it interact naturally with the negative space and small illustration, evoking art-book covers, independent publishing, contemporary editorial design, or thoughtful children's picture books. Do not force text into the composition if it does not naturally fit. If supplied, use this optional text: ${editorial-text}

## Visual direction
The poster should feel quiet, poetic, refined, minimal, innocent, relaxed, artistic, thoughtful, highly recognizable, and premium. Center the visual concept on a small subject surrounded by abundant empty space. Make the result resemble a carefully designed independent art-publication cover, not a commercial advertisement.

Avoid colored-pencil aesthetics, crayon textures, bleeding watercolor, pure line-art illustration, complex realistic illustration, heavy oil-painting effects, smooth polished digital illustration, 3D rendering or glossy 3D textures, commercial cartoon aesthetics, cute commercial character design, e-commerce advertising aesthetics, generic poster templates, excessive decoration, busy compositions, and excessive typography.

The top half should feel like a beautiful, authentic editorial photograph. The bottom half should feel like a small, handmade visual poem derived from it. Keep both halves within the same visual story while maintaining a strong contrast between photographic realism above and minimal handmade illustration below. Prioritize recognition, restraint, negative space, material texture, subtle imperfection, editorial sophistication, and artistic storytelling over decorative complexity.