Four-Layer Woodcut, Torn Paper, and Cyanotype Poster

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Four-layer vertical poster showing a woman in a karst lake as a photo, woodcut, torn-paper collage, and cyanotype

Prompt

Transform my uploaded photo into a vertical collage poster using a 3:4 portrait composition. Divide the canvas from top to bottom into exactly four equal horizontal regions. Each region’s height must be precisely 25% of the full image, maintaining a strict 1:1:1:1 ratio with no deviation. Join the regions seamlessly, with no separators or gaps, in this order: original image → style 1 → style 2 → style 3. Because each layer is an extremely flat, wide strip of about 3:1, center the subject horizontally and emphasize generous negative space and breathing room on both sides. Avoid vertical stretching, distortion, or crowding against the edges. Keep the people’s positions, scene structure, and gaze directions coherent across all four layers so the result feels like one scene translated in four ways. The style layers, from the second through the fourth, must follow minimalist principles: reduce visual elements to the absolute minimum, retain only one core subject symbol, omit every secondary decoration, background detail, and supporting element, and keep at least 60% negative space.

The first layer preserves the original photo’s subject structure, authentic interactions and poses, realistic texture, natural lighting, and existing color atmosphere. Apply only subtle high-end photographic color grading for an editorial magazine quality. Do not change the relationships between people or the compositional logic. You may naturally extend the sky, ground, or environmental background without changing those relationships or the composition, giving the image more space and narrative depth.

The second layer uses a woodcut-print style: depict the scene texture and human silhouettes with high-contrast black-and-white carved marks, accented by one or two limited colors. Use an off-white or light-gray paper background. The carved lines should feel rough and forceful without becoming chaotic. Use primarily black and off-white with one accent color. Avoid overly dense carving and too many gray levels that make the image look muddy.

The third layer uses a torn-paper collage style: depict the scene and environment with blocks of torn colored paper, preserving the natural torn texture along overlapping edges. Use an off-white kraft-paper background. Build the main subject from several overlapping pieces of torn colored paper, with no more than three layers. Limit the palette to two to four natural colors. Avoid so many paper pieces that the image becomes cluttered, and avoid overly precise cut edges.

The fourth layer uses a cyanotype blueprint style: render the people and environment as silhouettes in only Prussian blue and white, evoking a traditional photographic process. Use an off-white or pale blue-white background with a subtle developed-film grain. Keep the palette monochromatic in Prussian blue and white. Do not add other colors, and avoid excessive grain that makes the image look dirty.

Convert the subject and scene consistently into the corresponding style in every layer. Keep the overall expression extremely restrained and simplified, retaining only the single most important subject symbol and its basic silhouette relationships. Remove all unnecessary background elements, decorative details, and supporting objects. Preserve the key positional relationships, interaction directions, and pose characteristics between people, but abstract them into recognizable silhouette relationships—fewer elements, clearer relationships. Derive each layer’s colors from the original photo and strictly limit each layer to two to four main colors. The four regions must maintain a strict 1:1:1:1 height ratio, each occupying 25%, with no stitching misalignment or proportional deviation. Avoid punk or cyberpunk aesthetics, forced overlays of realistic photographic texture, cartoon styling, 3D rendering, commercial-poster styling, complex background buildup, excessive or crowded elements, two adjacent layers that look too similar, and any text, logos, watermarks, or titles.