Split Photo and Cyanotype Silhouette Comic

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Inputs

Uploaded_photo (image) · Required

Outputs

Generated_image (image)

Using only the single photo uploaded for this task as your visual reference, create one 3:4 vertical composition combining the original photo and a cyanotype silhouette comic. Produce one image only: do not create a collage, combine multiple photos, or introduce characters or elements from other images.

## Fixed layout
Divide the canvas into two exactly equal horizontal sections, each occupying 50% of the total height. Both sections must have the same width and meet directly, with no gap or border and no elements overlapping across the division. For example, on a 1200 × 1600 pixel canvas, each section is 1200 × 800 pixels.

## Top half: full-bleed original photo
Place the original photo across the entire top section, flush to all four edges. Enlarge proportionally and crop only peripheral, nonessential background, preserving the main subject and important actions in full. Do not stretch, distort, blur-fill, redraw, or scale the photo down and center it. Add the smallest possible amount of neutral light-colored padding only if filling the section would otherwise crop an important subject.

Preserve the subjects’ identities, number, expressions, poses, clothing, objects, architectural structures, spatial relationships, natural lighting, and original colors. Do not add or remove elements, and do not add text.

## Bottom half: cyanotype silhouette comic
First identify the photo’s central theme and most distinctive silhouettes, including people’s poses, hairstyles and clothing outlines; animals’ movements; architectural edges; or the lines of a landscape. Render these as a cyanotype silhouette comic with recognizable character design and narrative relationships.

For people, preserve the original outer face shapes, hairstyles, apparent ages, body proportions, clothing styles, actions, and distances between them. Do not turn everyone into generic faceless figures. For animals, preserve their species-specific silhouettes, ears, tails, and poses. For architecture and landscapes, preserve their distinctive structures, quantities, and foreground-background relationships.

Use deep Prussian blue as the primary color. Simplify hair, shadowed clothing, buildings, or key environmental features into connected areas of solid color. Keep blue shapes clearly defined, with only a very slight, soft hand-exposure edge; do not make them look rough or damaged.

Use the paper’s warm-white color to leave simple negative-space lines within the blue areas, defining features such as eyes and brows, noses and mouths, fingers, locks of hair, collars, folds, and object boundaries. Make these lines follow the real structures; do not use meaningless patterns. Retain enough facial features to distinguish people by the placement of their features and the direction of their expressions.

Select one warm color from the original photo for small accents, such as vermilion, orange-brown, or warm gold. Use it only for clothing, flowers, lighting, or small objects actually present in the photo, and keep it to no more than 8% of the lower section. If the photo contains no suitable warm-colored element, use only blue and paper white.

Use lightly warm-white cotton art paper as the background, with a fine, even paper texture. Preserve a small amount of light-blue environmental contouring to explain the setting and leave the rest naturally blank. Do not add cyanotype botanical specimens, petals, stars, or any decoration absent from the original photo.

Keep the main subject grouping at approximately 60%–75% of the lower section’s width. Preserve the original photo’s orientation, occlusion, contact, and interactions. People must not appear to float; seated and standing poses, as well as held objects, must have clear support. Do not make the subjects into oversized heads or tiny isolated icons.

The overall image should combine the deep-blue character of a cyanotype print with clear comic-style forms, making the theme immediately readable. Do not use photographic negative effects, a blue filter over the whole image, watercolor bleeding, thick gouache painting, dense grain, dirt or scratches, or a 3D effect. Include no title, text, speech bubbles, logos, or watermark.