Vintage Matchbox Travel Label Poster
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Vintage Matchbox Travel Label Poster

Turn each travel photo into a separate 3:4 travel poster with two sections: preserve the authentic photograph above and reconstruct the same scene as a vintage paper travel label below.

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Please turn each travel photo I upload into its own high-end designed poster, with one finished piece per photo. Do not combine multiple photos into a collage or create a product-display mockup.

Use an overall vertical 3:4 composition. Divide the image into an authentic photographic area above and a vintage label illustration area below, with a clear, straight horizontal boundary between them.

The photographic area should take up about 45%–50% of the full image. Faithfully preserve the subject, buildings, vehicles, terrain, orientation, spatial relationships, viewpoint, natural light and shadows, authentic materials, and color atmosphere in the original photo. Apply only subtle high-end travel-photography color grading and a very fine film-grain effect. The upper area must remain clearly recognizable as a real photograph; do not redraw it, distort it, mirror it, replace the subject, or alter the architecture.

The lower area should take up about 50%–55%, and re-create the same scene as a “VINTAGE MATCHBOX TRAVEL LABEL|Vintage Matchbox Travel Label.”

In an open field of warm ivory or aged-paper color, place a flat rectangular vintage paper travel label. The label should take up about 48%–68% of the lower area's width, with approximately 32%–52% of continuous paper-colored margin around it.

Show only the front of the label. Do not show matchbox thickness, a drawer, sides, matches, packaging structure, a handheld scene, or a product display.

Extract the most recognizable subject silhouette, orientation, pose, key architectural structures, and signature color blocks from the original photo. Simplify the complex environment into one central stamp, badge, or bold color-block composition.

The subject must be immediately recognizable as deriving from the original photo, but do not use photo tracing or automatic vectorization. Reorganize the composition according to the subject's features, for example:

- Compress a landmark building into a bold-outline badge;
- Turn a bridge into a strong directional structure of towers and cables;
- Turn a road into an exaggerated perspective wedge;
- Turn a vehicle into a side-view badge made of its spoiler, body, and wheels;
- Turn mountains and terrain into a few hard-edged silhouettes.

Use thick near-black borders, bold black outlines, flat colors with hard edges, and 2–4 opaque spot colors. Extract the colors from the original photo, then simplify and purify them slightly, while adding warm paper color and near-black outlines.

Recreate the characteristics of old color-registration printing:

- coarse halftone;
- waxy ink grain;
- missing ink;
- rough printed edges;
- slight color misregistration;
- worn corners;
- aged paper fibers;
- uneven spot-color coverage.

Keep open paper-colored space inside the label. Do not fill its edges with decorations, halftone dots, or borders.

Add text as part of the label's printed design:

- A location or scene title of 1–3 English words;
- A number in the style of “LABEL NO. 01”;
- An observation sentence of 5–10 English words.

Set the main title in a heavy, slightly irregular vintage uppercase typeface. Set the supporting text in small old-style letterpress or typewriter type. Slightly uneven ink, wear, and color misregistration are allowed, but the main title must be clearly legible in the chat preview.

Do not copy logos, car-window stickers, organization names, author signatures, or unrelated text from the original photo. Do not imitate a real matchbox brand, specific vintage packaging, or an existing product label.

The overall result should look like a printed travel keepsake saved from an old suitcase, roadside shop, or local souvenir book: direct, rough, sun-worn, collectible, but not childish, cheap-looking, or like a generic nostalgia template.

Avoid: 3D matchboxes, packaging sides, matches, product-ad mockups, imitations of real brands, modern minimalist logos, smooth vector art, digital gradients, photographic filters, automatic photo tracing, too many colors, complex panoramas, children's cartoons, generic travel icons, redrawing the entire poster, omitting the original photo, shrinking the photo into a small decoration, using the same composition with a different material, blurred boundaries, author names, logos, watermarks, gibberish, fictional brands, or extra text.

How to use

Usage tip: Upload one travel photo and generate a separate poster for each photo. You can change the location title, number, and observation sentence to match the scene. Remember to preserve any logos or personal information in the original image that should not be made public.

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