Kraft-Paper Negative-Space Stencil Landmark Contrast Poster
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Kraft-Paper Negative-Space Stencil Landmark Contrast Poster

Create a separate 3:4 vertical poster from each travel photo, preserving the high-fidelity original image in the upper half and reinterpreting the landmark below with coarse-fiber paper and a light-colored negative-space stencil print.

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Please turn each travel photo I upload into its own premium contrast poster. Do not combine multiple photos; output each photo separately.

Style name:

KRAFT NEGATIVE-STENCIL LANDMARK|Kraft-Paper Negative-Space Landmark Stencil Print

## Suitable subjects

Suitable for travel landmarks with a clearly defined, single-subject silhouette, such as:

lighthouses, towers, churches, temples, gatehouses, statues, monuments, windmills, solitary boats, pavilions, bridge towers, or buildings with a distinctive outline.

The subject should be clearly separated from the sky, water, a plaza, or a relatively simple environment.

Do not process every photo as a lighthouse, church, or the same kind of tourist icon. Do not add birds, boats, trees, people, railings, or decorative scenery that are absent from the original photo.

## Overall layout

Use a 3:4 vertical top-and-bottom comparison layout:

- Keep approximately 45%–52% as the high-fidelity original photo at the top
- Reinterpret approximately 48%–55% at the bottom as a kraft-paper negative-space stencil print
- Give the two areas a straight, clear, restrained horizontal boundary
- No feathering, blending between the sections, or heavy divider line
- Do not generate a frame, wall, handheld display, or mockup

The finished poster must retain a clearly recognizable original-photo comparison area of substantial size. Do not shrink the original image to a small corner badge, and do not turn the entire poster into a stencil print.

## Original photo at the top

Faithfully preserve the following from the original photo:

- landmark identity
- number of subjects
- subject orientation
- proportions of the building or object
- top, base, and key contours
- positions of doors, windows, and major structures
- viewing angle
- number and positions of people
- spatial relationships among the sky, ground, water, and other elements
- authentic materials, lighting, shadows, and original color mood

Apply only subtle, premium travel-magazine, architectural-publication, or photography-exhibition color grading, and add very fine film grain.

Do not turn the original photo into an illustration; do not move the subject, reshape the building, replace the sky, add or remove people, stretch, mirror, or duplicate the landmark.

## Kraft paper below

The bottom should be one continuous field of coarse-fiber paper.

Choose one dark color for the paper based on the mood of the original photo:

- natural kraft brown
- dark gray-brown
- cool brown
- deep indigo
- ink green
- a single dark color sampled from the original photo's shadows

Show authentic natural paper fibers, tiny paper flecks, slight creases, local color variation, and a matte, rough surface.

The paper may look slightly aged, but must not be heavily scorched, torn, covered in stains, or made to look like a cheap vintage background.

## Negative-space stencil process

Recreate the subject in the photo as a hand-made negative stencil print, coarse-screen print, or old stencil print.

First lay down a complete dark coarse-paper base. Then use only one opaque light-colored ink to stencil the subject out of the paper surface.

The light ink may be:

- warm ivory
- gray-white
- pale sand
- an extremely light corresponding color sampled from the subject in the photo

Restrict the entire reinterpretation to two colors or nearly two colors:

paper background color + light stencil-print ink.

Do not add a third accent color, multicolor overprint, gradients, translucent colors, realistic shadows, or glow effects.

## Semantic reduction

Do not copy the whole scene from the photo.

Keep only:

- the subject's complete outer silhouette
- subject orientation
- top and base shapes
- 2–6 internal openings that establish its identity
- how the subject connects to the ground, shoreline, rocks, or water
- very few additional structures that truly appear in the original photo and help identify the subject

Remove:

- complex window panes
- brick joints and wall textures
- decorative carvings
- dense vegetation
- cloud details
- reflections
- realistic lighting and shadows
- repeated people
- irrelevant surroundings
- photographic noise

The subject must be recognizable at a glance, but its internal details should be reduced to a minimum.

Recognition should come primarily from one continuous area of light-colored negative space, not fine lines, hatching, or the photo's tonal values.

## Composition

Use an impactful, full-bleed secondary composition.

The subject should fill the lower section:

- approximately 55%–85% of its height
- approximately 28%–68% of its width

Center the subject or offset it slightly to match the visual weight of the original photo. The base or part of the outline may extend slightly out of frame.

Do not redraw the subject in two colors at the same scale and with the same complete framing as the upper photo. Enlarge the subject clearly below, remove the background, and change the information density.

Keep a continuous, quiet field of coarse paper around the subject.

At most, retain a minimal, broken negative-space line for the ground, shoreline, rock, or water. Do not create a complete landscape background.

## Stencil-print texture

The light-colored subject's outer contours should be solid and clear, with slight paper-fiber roughness from authentic stencil printing.

Allow the light ink to have:

- uneven coverage
- random missing ink
- a few pinholes
- local scraping
- friction wear
- exposed kraft-paper fibers
- slight ink leaks or breaks at stencil edges

These marks must appear naturally, randomly, and locally.

Do not use a uniform grain filter, regular noise, a regular grid, or a photographic threshold effect.

Keep the subject's upper half, top contour, and identity-defining structures relatively intact.

Closer to the bottom of the subject, the ink may become more visibly broken and worn away, gradually consumed by the paper fibers to evoke a fading memory.

Create the fading at the bottom through missing ink, wear, and exposed paper.

Do not use:

- smoky feathered edges
- soft-focus fade
- regular halftone gradients
- pixel dissolution
- rectangular mosaics
- digital airbrush effects

Keep the overall print matte, flat, and almost without thickness.

Do not make it look like paper cutting, a relief, impasto, resin, or a three-dimensional model.

## Text

By default, generate no text so the negative-space subject retains the greatest graphic impact.

If text is truly needed, allow only:

- one reliable, very short place name
- one simple number

Print text in the same light ink, as a small distressed stencil, in an empty area near the edge.

No long paragraphs, author name, signature, account name, brand, logo, URL, QR code, watermark, fake Chinese characters, or garbled text.

## Overall mood

The overall result should resemble an old landmark stencil print, hand-brushed onto coarse kraft paper:

restrained, rough, quiet, isolated, flat, modern, and marked by the authentic imperfections of paper and hand-made stencil printing.

It is neither an ordinary silhouette nor a photo with a two-color filter.

The most important visual mechanism is:

large areas of light-colored negative space
+
very few internal structural openings
+
random missing ink that exposes the paper
+
progressive fragmentation and fading at the bottom

## Mandatory exclusions

Avoid:

ordinary silhouette, vector icon, travel logo, photo threshold filter, automatic tracing, monochrome photo filter, detailed etching, copperplate hatching, dense woodcut lines, halftone gradient, regular noise texture, pixel dissolve, airbrush fade, transparent watercolor, paper relief, paper sculpture, impasto, realistic shadows, plastic 3D, multicolor overprint, complete background coverage, same-crop same-scale redraw, invented landmark, added birds, added trees, added boats, excessive typography, author name, logo, watermark, QR code, gibberish text.

The result is incomplete unless both the original photo and the kraft-paper negative-space reinterpretation are clearly present.

How to use

Usage suggestion: Upload travel photos one at a time, each showing a clearly defined single landmark. Suitable subjects include lighthouses, towers, churches, and monuments; choose the paper background color based on the photo's shadows.

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