Photo and Minimal Paper Acrylic Postcard Poster

Prompt by@Dicklong1999 (opens in a new tab)

Split poster pairing a lighthouse photograph under dramatic clouds with a minimal acrylic-style lighthouse illustration on textured white paper
Split poster pairing a vivid sunset seascape photograph with a minimal acrylic-style sunset illustration on textured white paper

Prompt

Create one independent high-end design poster for each photo I upload. Do not combine multiple photos; output each photo separately. Use a vertical {argument name="Aspect ratio" default="3:4"} composition, divided into two regions with a strict 1:1 height ratio, each occupying 50% of the canvas.

Keep the original photo in the upper half, preserving the subject's structure, realistic texture, natural light and shadow, and original color atmosphere. Apply only subtle, sophisticated photographic color grading so it feels like magazine photography or an art publication. To fit the format, naturally extend the sky, ground, or environmental background if needed, but never stretch, distort, or alter the subject.

In the lower half, extract the photo's most recognizable subject, contours, pose, and narrative relationships, then reconstruct them as a minimalist, paper-textured, hand-drawn cover illustration. Strongly distill and simplify complex details, retaining only the essential visual features. Re-express them with delicate, slightly imperfect hand-drawn lines and a few clear, flat acrylic color blocks so the original theme remains instantly recognizable. Keep the subject small and concentrated, occupying about {argument name="Subject proportion" default="10%–20%"} of the lower half, with abundant negative space around it. Use rough white or pale paper as the background, with only a few lines or color fields to suggest the environment.

Extract the palette from the upper photo and compress it to no more than four main colors. Keep the color blocks vivid, complete, and restrained, preserving paper grain, handmade brushwork, and slightly irregular edges. Lines should suggest structure; color blocks should establish the subject. Avoid colored pencil, crayon, bleeding watercolor, pure line art, complex realism, heavy oil paint, smooth digital illustration, and 3D texture.

A small amount of simple text may be added. Depending on the photo, flexibly use a title, theme word, object name, location, year, number, or short phrase; the subject need not be urban. Keep typography sparse and restrained, naturally integrated with the negative space and illustration, with the design character of an art-book cover, independent publication, or children's picture book. The overall visual mood should feature a small subject, abundant negative space, strong distillation, high recognizability, quietness, childlike charm, ease, poetry, and sophistication. Avoid commercial-cartoon, e-commerce, and template-like aesthetics.