Paper-Cutout People Travel Street-Scene Poster
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Paper-Cutout People Travel Street-Scene Poster

Turn each travel photo into a separate 3:4 top-and-bottom comparison poster: preserve the real original photo above and reconstruct the same scene below, transforming only the real people into warm-white paper cutouts and hesitant black-ink line-drawn characters.

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Turn each travel photo I upload into a separate, premium reinterpretation poster. Do not collage multiple photos; output each photo separately.

Use a vertical 3:4 top-and-bottom comparison layout. The upper section should occupy about 48%–50% of the image and preserve the complete original photo; the lower section should occupy about 50%–52% and reconstruct the same location, same people, and same moment. Separate the upper and lower sections with a clear, straight horizontal boundary. Do not blend them, use torn paper, create multilayered collages, or add a decorative band between them.

Faithfully preserve the people’s identities, number, facial features, poses, direction of movement, gestures, clothing, belongings, spacing between people, foreground/background occlusion, architectural structures, road perspective, real materials, natural light and shadow, and atmosphere of the location in the upper section. Apply only subtle color grading at the level of a travel magazine, art publication, or exhibition photography, and add extremely fine film grain. Do not alter people, replace the background, move buildings, add or remove pedestrians, or turn the photo into an illustration.

The lower section should reconstruct the same space, but allow for a more editorial secondary composition based on the relationships between the people. Choose a portion of the real photographic setting sufficient to establish the location. Tighten the crop moderately, lower background contrast, or remove unrelated people at the edges so the 1–4 most important people in the photo become a clear narrative focus. Leave about 20%–32% of continuous, low-detail open space in the sky, wall, street, water, or ground, so the image can breathe and accommodate text.

Keep the buildings, streets, walls, trees, vehicles, sky, water, and lighting in the lower section photorealistic. Do not turn the entire scene into line art. Transform only the people actually present in the photo who carry the main narrative into “warm-white paper cutouts + hesitant black line drawings,” as physical collage-sketch characters.

Strictly preserve the actual number, position, size, pose, direction of action, distance from one another, hand contact, foreground/background occlusion, and interaction between the people. Construct each person from the following:

- Opaque warm-white or natural-white paper fill that completely covers the person’s original photographic content;
- Visible but restrained natural paper grain and slight fibers;
- Clean die-cut paper edges with slight handmade imperfections;
- Loose, hesitant charcoal-black or ink-black outlines with subtle variation in weight;
- Very few internal sketch lines for hair, collars, arms, hands, legs, shoes, backpacks, or cameras;
- Very faint, correctly oriented contact shadows beneath the feet and between overlapping paper layers.

The people must feel like real paper figures standing in the location. Ensure their feet on the ground, occlusion between figures, perspective scaling, and the direction of the scene’s light all look credible. Do not merely overlay white line art on transparent photographic people, and do not make the figures look like thick foam stickers, cartoon characters, reaction stickers, comic characters, or an AR interface.

Distant, very small people may be cropped out of the lower section. If they remain clearly identifiable, depict their actual number as simpler white-paper silhouettes. Do not duplicate them, add more, or give them identical poses. Bags, hats, cameras, umbrellas, or bicycles related to the people’s actions may be turned into paper cutouts along with them.

By default, add three tiers of accurate, legible English text:

1. Create a title of 1–3 English words distilled from the people’s actions or the relationships in the scene;
2. Add an observation number in a format like “SCENE NO. 01”;
3. Add a short sentence of 5–10 English words describing the walking, waiting, meeting, embracing, or looking that is actually happening in the photo.

The main title must be clearly legible at normal chat-preview size and occupy about 25%–38% of the lower section’s width. Use loose black-ink capitals, hand-set type, or narrow sketchbook-style lettering. It may be printed on a piece of warm-white handmade paper, or arranged along a low-detail wall or ground area. Let the ink show slight breaks and paper tooth, but do not reduce it to decorative gray lines or make it look like smooth digital typesetting overlaid in post-production.

Do not invent relationships between people, locations, dates, brands, quotations, or author information. Do not let text cover people’s faces, hand interactions, or points where their feet touch the ground.

The overall effect should feel uncanny, with real travel photography and sketched paper figures existing together: the setting remains part of reality, while the people seem cut from a memory, diary, or sketchbook and gently placed back into the journey.

Avoid: full-poster redraw, illustrated buildings, illustrated street, all-white background replacing the scene, transparent line overlay on photographic people, cartoon people, colored comic characters, kawaii stickers, speech bubbles, AR interface, thick foam stickers, altered person count, invented pedestrians, duplicated figures, changed poses, separated hands, floating figures, missing contact shadows, tiny source-photo comparison, fake text, author name, signature, social handle, logo, watermark.

Most important rule: the upper section must preserve the complete real original photo. The lower section must remain a real photographic space, transforming only the people actually present in the photo into physical collage characters made of warm-white paper cutouts and hesitant black-ink lines.

How to use

Usage suggestion: Upload each travel photo separately and generate a separate poster. Check the horizontal boundary between the upper and lower sections, the number of people and their actions, the contact shadows beneath the paper figures’ feet, and whether the English title and sentence are accurate and clearly legible.

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